Jeff Ament

The three CDs lean heavily on B-sides and live tracks that were released piecemeal as part of something else, and not a whole lot can be considered truly rare. Read More

The coming self-titled album from Them Crooked Vultures is the latest release by a so-called supergroup. Read More

The long goodbye to the Spectrum, in a year that included concerts by Green Day, Leonard Cohen and multiple nights from Bruce Springsteen, ended in a flurry of red white and blue confetti and balloons dropped from the rafters Halloween as Pearl Jam's Mike McCready wrenched the "Star Spangled Banner" from his guitar, Hendrix-style. Read More

Austin Mullins is equal parts Montana cowboy and "Deep Ellum" jazz and blues, a 270-pounder who is chasing a career in music as earnestly as he chases opposing quarterbacks. Read More

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Now with the release of its new CD, "Backspacer," Pearl Jam is blazing a new trail for releasing music. Read More

Pearl Jam is unlikely to add "Happy Boy," the kazoo-fueled 1983 romp by San Diego's Beat Farmers, to its concert repertoire any time soon. Read More

"Please only ask Pearl Jam about the current record and not their history." Read More

A thousand rock 'n' roll cliches have been built around the idea that guts and glory belong to the young. Read More

But Vedder then turned to the string section and informed them that he'd like to play a song they hadn't practiced (the minute-long barnstormer "Lukin" ) and that they were free to play whatever they liked ("as long as it's in E-minor"). Read More