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The year 1991 marked a significant change in the sound of pop music. The days of bubblegum (Debbie Gibson, Rick Astley, New Kids On The Block) and hair metal (Poison, Warrant, Motley Crue) were suddenly numbered as alternative rock and grunge culture bubbled up to the surface and heavily infiltrated the mainstream. Perhaps sensing the turning tide, veteran acts like U2 and Michael Jackson headed in new directions, musically. Meanwhile, R&B was all about new jack swing, Motownphilly and a whistle-register songbird named Mariah. Flip through our gallery to revisit 10 classic albums that celebrate their 20th anniversaries this year. More »
Posts Tagged ‘Pearl Jam’
Chris Cornell Gets Back Together With His Old Band (No, The Other One)
Wed Oct 7 2009 by Maura
Last night in Los Angeles, Chris Cornell appeared with Pearl Jam at the Gibson Amphitheater in Los Angeles, where they all ran through “Hunger Strike” from the Cornell-plus-Pearl Jam-minus-Vedder Andrew Wood tribute project Temple Of The Dog. It sounded pretty decent (especially given that those big notes at the end are hard to sing), and before you go and snipe “man, if only they’d done ‘Reach Down’ ” may I give you some news about who was in the crowd? Here is a hint: They know Chris pretty well! More »
Crabby Columnist Would Like You To Get Off His (City Park’s) Lawn
Tue Oct 6 2009 by Maura
Some crankypants Austin American-Statesman columnist took in his first music festival this weekend, when he attended the Austin City Limits Festival, his hometown’s muddy three-day extravaganza that featured Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, and a slew of other bands. Most festival reportage tends to gloss over the hinkiness of events like these—the gradual deterioration of the venues’ PortaPotty army, the dust-flecked food, the shirtless bros who turn their favorite bands’ sets into a campfire singalong—but Ken Herman went right into the mud, and wound up slinging some of his own! More »
‘Austin City Limits’ Lineup To Include Pearl Jam, Them Crooked Vultures
Mon Sep 28 2009 by Maura
Coming to this season of the PBS live-music show Austin City Limits: Pearl Jam! The Heartless Bastards! Frequent ACL guest Willie Nelson, whose 1975 appearance is in the picture at left! The Dave Grohl / Josh Homme / John Paul Jones supergroup Them Crooked Vultures! And more, so be sure to check your listings and set your DVR. [Austin Music Source / Official site] More »
Pearl Jam Hit The Target
Mon Sep 21 2009 by Maura
Our look at the closing lines of the week’s biggest new-music reviews continues with a roundup of reactions to Pearl Jam’s ninth studio album Backspacer, which was released via Target and the band’s fan club yesterday: More »
A New Pearl Jam Song Gets Unscoured From The Internet
Tue Jun 2 2009 by Maura
Over the weekend, rumors that alt-rock stalwarts Pearl Jam were going to release their forthcoming album (their first one that won’t be released via a Sony Music subsidiary) via Target percolated all around the Internet, thanks to a Cameron Crowe-directed video shoot that was apparently set to double as a commercial for the album’s availability at the big-box retailer. After the news sent the blogosphere into an NDA-violating tizzy, Pearl Jam’s manger Kelly Curtis gave Billboard the scoop on Backspacer, which will come out this fall. If Curtis’ prediction bears out, the Target deal will only be one piece of cloth in a retail quilt that will include indie stores, the band’s fan club, and an as-yet-unnamed cell phone company: More »
Mon May 18 2009 by Maura
Pearl Jam will be the first musical guest on the Conan O’Brien-hosted incarnation of Tonight. Not that NBC executives really care, what with them being too busy slobbering over Jay Leno’s Big Glass Of Warm Milk That Had Better Not Result In The Cancellation Of Law & Order Or I’m Going To Be Pretty Flicked Off. [AP] More »
Austin City Limits To Party Like It’s 1997
Tue Apr 28 2009 by Maura
Pearl Jam, the Dave Matthews Band, the Beastie Boys, and Kings of Leon are at the head of the 130ish-artist lineup for the Austin City Limits Festival, which takes place in the Texas capital’s Zilker Park from Oct. 2 to Oct. 4. Tickets are $185; the genre-spanning bill also includes Lily Allen, the Supersuckers, Daniel Johnston, a bunch of blog bands, and the Jack White/Allison Mossheart superishgroup The Dead Weather. And the Toadies! Full lineup after the jump. More »
How To Show A Friend (Or A Vague Acquaintance) That You Care: Send Him An Alice In Chains Or Two
Tue Apr 28 2009 by Maura
Facebook, as you probably know, is a social-networking site that allows its users to basically fall down a rabbit-hole of whiling away time that could otherwise be spent outside, or curing cancer, or even, I don’t know, reading. One of the odd customs of the social-networking site involves bestowing presents upon others–sending friends virtual birthday cakes, martinis, that sort of thing. The presents sent from friend to friend have grown more esoteric as the site’s population has mushroomed, and one of my favorite gift-giving opportunities is Old School Seattle Rock, which involves the sending and receiving of bands from the golden age of Sub Pop Rock City. Yesterday I was thinking about maybe sending some Fastbacks to a pal, and I wondered, “Hmm, what could the most popular bands on this site be? Pearl Jam has to be No. 1, right?” Well, not really! The top five (as of this writing): More »
Pearl Jam To Take It Outside
Mon Apr 13 2009 by Maura
Since they’ve been a hot topic around here lately, you might like to know that Pearl Jam has been tabbed as one of the headliners of the Outside Lands Festival, a three-day festival taking place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in late August. The lineup is, to say the least, eclectic: Tom Jones, the Black Eyed Peas, Raphael Saadiq, the Dead Weather, Incubus, M.I.A. and the Dave Matthews Band are also on the bill. Something for everybody, I guess. Full lineup after the jump!
