Pearl Jam's new album Backspacer will debut as a Rock Band download Sept. 20, the same day the CD hits stores. What's more, Target will offer an exclusive edition of the album that will include ...

In their Seattle rehearsal space, beneath a portrait of Pete Townshend and a giant Ramones banner, Pearl Jam have been hard at work on songs for their ninth studio album – which they plan to release ...

Look below, dear Pearl Jam fans, and find one of nine pieces of art to be featured on the alt-rock band’s September release, Backspacer. This image — exclusive to SPIN.com — is part of a collaboration ...

On stage last summer at Madison Square Garden, Eddie Vedder told a story. The Pearl Jam singer had recently been in a coffee shop, when he saw something unfamiliar for sale: a plastic MusicPass card ...

The ever wittastic Conan O’Brien will begin his reign as the host of NBC’s Tonight Show June 1 (11:35 p.m.), and he’s invited some musically-inclined pals along to join the party — and we’re not ...

If the idea of a Target-exclusive Pearl Jam record seems a little weird to you, you're not alone. It reeks of "sell-out," but the move could actually be viewed as a shrewd business decision by Eddie ...

Backspacer is Pearl Jam's first studio album since the musicians became free agents, finally fulfilling a seven-album contract with Sony. It took the band 15 years. "[Sony was] shockingly bad," ...

The Celebration Rock Podcast’s Vitalogy-ology series on Pearl Jam concludes this week by looking at the band’s post-2000 career. Our concluding episode looks at the band’s three most recent albums — ...

Near the end of Pearl Jam’s sessions for their 1994 LP Vitalogy, Eddie Vedder picked up a cheap thrift store accordion and began singing a bizarre, Tom Waits-like dirge about insects. “I got bugs in ...

Pearl Jam played a shoulda-been legendary set at the E Center in Salt Lake City on Monday — the closest they’ll come to Denver this year. Photos and text by Soren McCarty. Pearl Jam skipped Colorado ...

Rumors started over the weekend on sites like Antiquiet and Stereogum that Pearl Jam had staged a secret show at Seattle’s Showbox theater Thursday night, where they shot a Target commercial with ...

One of the most popular and influential rock bands of the past two decades Pearl Jam makes their Austin City Limits debut in celebration of their selfreleased new CD Backspacer SETLIST Walking the Cow ...