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Reissues That I'm Probably Going To Buy The Day They Come Out Dept. From a press release announcing the (gulp) 18-year anniversary reissue of Pearl Jam's Ten: "In the process of digging through his archives for this project, Ament came across an old cassette marked 'Momma-Son— the fabled original Pearl Jam demo tape featuring the first recorded versions of 'Alive,' 'Once' and 'Footsteps.'... Vedder quickly wrote lyrics, put these vocals to the music tracks and shipped the tape back to Seattle. Upon hearing how Vedder had transformed the songs, Ament, Gossard and McCready asked him to come up to Seattle so they could meet and have an official 'tryout' together. Shortly thereafter, Pearl Jam was born. (A replica of the Momma-Son cassette will be included in the Super Deluxe Edition of Ten.)" This is almost as good as when C/Z reissued Deep Six on CD, you guys! [pearljam.com]

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Billy Corgan, in his latest attempt to be seen as a total nutball by pretty much anyone who liked him during the '90s, is saying that Eddie Vedder's song about the Cubs maybe winning the World Series "killed that shit dead... Eddie ain’t living here to write a song about my fuckin’ team." Funny, I thought that Ryan Dempster and an anemic performance by the Cubs' offense were more to blame, but maybe Billy isn't big on reading the boxscores. [Home Run Derby via Vulture]

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baseball-related content

Eddie Vedder Is Excited About The Chicago Cubs

The Pearl Jam lead singer debuted "Someday We'll Go All The Way" in August (to celebrate the birthday of Cub legend Ernie Banks), but what with the team's magic number to clinch the NL Central being so close to zero, Chicago-area radio stations have picked it up as something of a rallying cry over the past few days. But who will pick up that mantel for the Cubs' crosstown rivals, the White Sox? (No, really, I'm asking.) [Nearly Next Year]

3:45 PM on Thu Sep 18 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by captainrhodes: Pretty sure the last playoff series the Mets won was against the Dodgers. As in, a sweep. I prefer Chamillionaire's generic Astros tribute from a few years back to Eddie's mumbling. (That said, drunken "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" = more »

Supergrass singer Gaz Coombes pinch-hit for Dave Grohl at the taping of VH1's Rock Honors tribute to the Who on Saturday night, thanks to Grohl's voice being too tired to make its way through two songs. Coombes sang "Bargain" while backed by the Foo Fighters for the show, which will be broadcast Thursday night. Meanwhile, Pearl Jam covered "The Real Me," a song choice that makes me wonder if they're trying to dethrone Blackie Lawless as the heir to that particular track. Fight! Fiiiiight! [Hollywood Insider / Photo: AP]

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videodrone

Mark Arm Offers A History Lesson


If you notice a drop-off in posts today, don't worry, I'm OK; I've probably just gotten lost in a haze of looking for YouTube clips and blog posts recapping this weekend's SP20 festival, which celebrated the 20th-ish anniversary of indie heavyweight Sub Pop. (Matos sent along a blog by a former employee of the label that's proven to be crucial reading.) Above, the reunited proto-grunge act Green River performs "This Town." (Dear Iggy Pop: Please say yes to Jeff Ament's idea for a Stooges/Green River double bill, so I can stop kicking myself, at least until someone uploads yesterday's performance of "Swallow My Pride.") [YouTube]

10:30 AM on Mon Jul 14 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by mackro: The Green River show was amazing. (I saw every band of the entire festival this weekend.) I never saw them back in the day, so I can't compare THEN and NOW. But Mark's line about how Melvins apparently stole a more »

obituaries

Natasha Shneider, R.I.P.

Natasha Shneider, who played keyboards and sang with the band Eleven and collaborated with Queens of the Stone Age and Chris Cornell, died of cancer yesterday. "She was a brilliant, beautiful, and ballsy woman who will be missed deeply by all those who knew her. Send your loving thoughts her way in the universe," wrote frequent collaborator Troy Van Leeuwen. Shneider and her husband Alain Johannes founded Eleven with former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons in 1990, and the band recorded five albums and toured with Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Queens Of The Stone Age—all groups that members of Eleven would eventually collaborate with or join. Shneider's colorful career also included playing a cosmonaut in 2010: The Year We Make Contact and recording a song for the Catwoman soundtrack. Some clips from her career below. More »

10:15 AM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Anthony Miccio
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Latest by Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee: Holy shit. I had no idea about this. Very sad, indeed. more »

The Future Of Music Reviewing "Instead, over their two-hour set Wednesday night at a sold-out Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Pearl Jam chose to offer a semi-obscure selection of songs that excluded many massive hits. Fans cheered predictably throughout the night, but many ended up grumbling afterward, frustrated that favorites such as Jeremy, Black, Daughter, Elderly Woman Behind the Counter In a Small Town, I Got Id and Release were passed over for songs some struggled to identify." You'd think this was an offering from Yelp, wouldn't you? No, it's by a "professional" music critic employed by the Miami Herald, Michael Hamersly, and there's so much more where that came from. Like the way he calls Eddie Vedder's outfit "appropriately grungy" and the way that "Yellow Ledbetter" has a guiding riff that's "Red Hot Chili Peppers-like." I mean, I know that every writer has a day when they have to hack out a piece on deadline—and the headline "Pearl Jam picks puzzling song selection" doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the editorial team over there—but at least be creative, y'know? [Miami Herald]

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this nation's prouder than ever before

Holy Crap: Green River Reunion Show Set For Next Summer

File under "pieces of news that I thought Jess was giving me in order to fake me out and get my attention": Green River—the Mark Arm-fronted Seattle band that the northwest rock historian behind lamestain pegged as "the first grunge rock stars"—is going to play a reunion show in honor of Sub Pop's 20th anniversary, according to former guitarist Stone Gossard. More »

8:56 AM on Wed Oct 3 2007
By mjohnston
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edited for content

God May Have Given Rock And Roll To You, But AT&T's Blueroom Wants To Take The "Profanity" Away

The controversy over AT&T's blueroom chopping out some anti-administration rhetoric from Pearl Jam's performance of "Another Brick In The Wall" at Lollapalooza heated up over the weekend, with Chicago Sun-Times critic Jim DeRogatis tying the incident into his tireless complaining about Lollapalooza's overwhelming corporate sponsorship, the Daily Swarm scouring message boards for incidents of the sound dropping out on other blueroom performers, and Wired's Listening Post blog finding that there was no "editing for content" clause in the release handed out to performers. One question that remains, though: Why is AT&T censoring for content in the first place, when its site makes no mention of the fact that live content is pre-screened before being beamed to the world? More »

12:15 PM on Mon Aug 13 2007
By mjohnston
349 views, 1 comment

Latest by Halfwit: I'm surprised that the artists weren't informed about this (and the political censorship is disturbing), but I thought it was assumed that a multinational (read "family friendly" corporations stream of any even would include a dump button. I remember watching more »

reach out and [bleep] someone

AT&T To Musicians: Love It Or Leave It

Following all of the hubbub over AT&T snipping Pearl Jam's brief Bush bash from its Lollapalooza broadcast, to which the communications conglomerate quickly 'fessed up with a blame-shifting mea culpa, an e-mail was circulated to a number of news outlets earlier today that claims that this isn't the first time the company has gotten an itchy bleeping finger when artists have brought up politics and the president: More »

3:25 PM on Fri Aug 10 2007
By jharv
420 views, 1 comment