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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Pearl jam org | History Defined

The Soundgarden memoir that fans needed

Rich with perspective, the band's lead guitarist revisits Seattle's music scene and the loss of Chris Cornell

Salon

Pearl Jam bassist Ament highlights skateboarding's impact in Indigenous communities in Tribeca film

Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament has been passionate about skateboarding since his teenage years in Montana

The Independent UK

“Stone Gossard is the reason I picked up guitar in the first place. Having a front row seat to his playing has been amazing”: Josh Klinghoffer on Chili Peppers vs. Pearl Jam and playing in Andrew Watt's new wrecking crew

These days Klinghoffer’s leaving his most well-worn guitars at home, but on his new Pluralone album he went back to his beloved 1947 Martin

Guitar World

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From Cream and Velvet Revolver to Them Crooked Vultures and Temple Of The Dog, these are the best supergroups in rock history

Some supergroups just aren't worth the sum of their parts. These are the exceptions

Louder

“The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself. Be stronger than those people. And then you can come back”: How Pearl Jam created a powerful signature song inspired by a real-life tragedy

“I guess they can’t sue us because I’m writing about it after it happened”

MusicRadar

“One of the few times Axl and I ever went out in public was to see Nirvana in Hollywood. And then people say grunge killed Guns N’ Roses”: Slash on the alternative rock revolution – and the groundbreaking album that blew Axl Rose’s mind

“I was never a big Pearl Jam fan, but Soundgarden was great”

MusicRadar

“When he started soloing he turned every knob up on the amp – all the way up. It was great!”: Sadler Vaden on when he and Jason Isbell jammed Little Wing with Pearl Jam's Mike McCready

Vaden and Isbell were playing the Paramount in Jimi Hendrix's hometown Seattle when they invited another local legend onstage to join them. A top-tier performance ensues

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“I’d put his riffs up against anyone in rock today. He’s as good as Homme or Morello”: First he got a DM from Pearl Jam, now Stone Gossard is hailing him as one of the best riffers in the business

The Pearl Jam guitarist took British alt-rock trio Tigercub out of their comfort zone – leader Jamie Hall was dialing Marshalls to 10, down-tuning a gift from Rabea Massaad, and finding tones that take enamel off your teeth

Guitar World

"We will miss you Prince!" As the 10th anniversary of his death nears, watch Bruce Springsteen, David Gilmour, Pearl Jam, Lenny Kravitz, Chris Cornell pay tribute to the legend that was Prince

Prince: 10 years gone, never forgotten

Louder

“I got to play with Layne and Chris and Lanegan. Now they’re gone. What would they be doing now? That haunts me to this day”: Mike McCready opens up on his new rock opera, the Seattle jams that changed him, and the future of Pearl Jam

Farewell to Seasons documents McCready’s path through the Seattle grunge explosion of the ’90s. He reflects on the singers he’s loved and lost, the guitarists who left the biggest mark on his playing and why going digital has made him a better player

Guitar World

"The success we enjoyed with Pearl Jam was a little bittersweet because our friend didn’t get to come along." Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament on Ten, Temple Of The Dog, Mother Love Bone, touring America for the first time, and working with Neil Young

"We didn’t expect Ten to be a huge deal. But I guess it kinda became one"

Louder

“I quit playing music for two years. I was done. Then I got a call from Stone”: Mike McCready followed Duff McKagan to LA to make it big – but he nearly missed his shot in Seattle

Before Pearl Jam, the lead guitarist sought to make a success of his teenage hard-rock outfit, Shadow

Guitar World

"It's our most emotional and moving song." In 1986, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder taped something off the TV. Years later, that recording would leave fans wondering what in the name of grunge was going on

The story behind the weirdest track on their third album Vitalogy – and it's not Bugs

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“Inspired by the creativity, community, and chaos of the Seattle music scene”: Mike McCready has spent 20 years making a rock opera that explores an alternate history of grunge – and it’s finally ready

Farewell to Seasons has been a two-decade labor of love from the Pearl Jam guitarist

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"I was thinking about all the singers that came from the Seattle scene and how many of them had since died." Pearl Jam's Mike McCready announces rock opera about the history of grunge in Seattle

Mike McCready's Farewell to Seasons will also be published as a graphic novel

Louder

"It's the best clapping TV theme song since Friends." Listen to the first song released by US supergroup featuring R.E.M's Michael Stipe, producer Andrew Watt, ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer and Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker

Michael Stipe shares first new song in three years, with superstar cast

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"I was angry at them for writing that song. I thought, You don’t know. You weren’t there." The tragic and horrifying true story behind one of the biggest rock anthems of the 90s

"We heard a girl running down the hall screaming. It was a scream from the heart"

Louder

"Eddie completely changed this couple's life." Hollywood superstar Kate Hudson reveals how Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder played a pivotal role in the story behind her new movie

How Eddie Vedder helped a dream come true

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"We’re in the lab, we’re woodshedding, excited." Eddie Vedder says that Pearl Jam are preparing for a new era

Pearl Jam look to life after Matt Cameron

The Independent UK

What is Epidermolysis Bullosa? Eddie Vedder’s new Netflix documentary raises awareness of heartbreaking skin condition

The Pearl Jam singer co-founded the EB Research Partnership to help treat and cure the life-threatening genetic skin disorder

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Yungblud hints at Eddie Vedder collaboration

Yungblud has hinted he could soon collaborate with Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder, after admitting: "I think we might write together in the future."

Louder

"Any money I will make I will happily give away to others. Print that, because I will stand by that!" He said it would be "counter-productive" if his band's debut album was a huge success. Then it sold 20 million copies

"We are not user-friendly... there is nothing special about me"

Metal Hammer

Because nothing screams punk rock louder than millionaire rock stars performing for hedge fund bros, watch Eddie Vedder, Anthony Kiedis, Brandi Carlile, Slash and friends play Stooges, Motorhead, Dead Boys covers at billionaire's private corporate gig

Who said money can't buy you happiness?

MusicRadar

“It’s the biggest song in the set and it wasn’t a single. It wasn’t anywhere close to being a single”: The classic track that defines John Mayer as a guitarist and a songwriter

“Without Pearl Jam there is no Slow Dancing In A Burning Room,” he said

Louder

“All it takes is someone like Neil to point at you and it’s on”: what Eddie Vedder learned making Pearl Jam’s Merkin Ball EP with Neil Young

The story of what happened when Vedder joined his bandmates and Young at the tailend of the sessions for Mirror Ball

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