Contact Daniel Kreps on X Contact Daniel Kreps by Email In addition to “The Fixer” and the live rendition of “Got Some,” fans have also heard a demo version of new track “Speed of Sound” after ...

Pearl Jam‘s “The Fixer,” the first single off the band’s upcoming ninth studio albumBackspacer, premiered on various radio stations across the country this morning. New York’s RXP 101.9 proclaimed ...

The post A Second-Generation Pearl Jam Fan Makes the Case for Backspacer 10 Years Later appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Of all the timeworn adolescent rock and roll clichés, you can’t do much ...

A thousand rock ‘n’ roll clichés have been built around the idea that guts and glory belong to the young. Pearl Jam’s ninth studio album, “Backspacer,” available now, makes the opposite argument. Its ...

Eddie Vedder has finally shaken the dead guy who has been haunting him. Two decades ago, Kurt Cobain dogged Pearl Jam as sellouts, dismissing his grunge rivals as “cock-rock fusion” and their gala ...

One reason Pearl Jam’s ninth album is their best since 1994’s Vitalogy? It flies by. Without any of the plodding, moody ruminations and self-serious space fillers that have weighed down the band’s ...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - "Super poppy." "Just plain fun." "Surprisingly optimistic." "Catchy as hell." These are not phrases often used to describe Pearl Jam, the 30 million-selling purveyor of ...

As they were for many people my age (40> X > 30; people who were somewhere between emerging teens and graduating from college when Ten was released), Pearl Jam was a touchstone for my youth and my ...