Ongoing History Daily: Pearl Jam, Survivors
Pearl Jam was formed in 1990 and outlasted so many of their peers from the original grunge era. Think about it. Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley and Mike Starr of Alice in Chains, Chris
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Random music news for Wednesday, July 24, 2024
How about wasting some time with a simulator of the Windows 98 Disk Defrag utility? It was a simpler time. Moving to music news for July 24, 2024… More music news? Go here.
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The Ongoing History of New Music, encore presentation: Musicians battling disease, part 1
The human body is a wonderful thing, a marvel of evolution, biology, and chemistry along with a few bits, like consciousness, that we still don’t understand. And for the most part, this meatbag
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Those recently canceled Pearl Jam shows? Eddie says it was a “near-death experience.”
If you’ve been following Pearl Jam’s current European tour, you’ll know that the band recently canceled a bunch of shows in London and Germany. The official reason was an undisclosed illness (although some
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Ongoing History: Fake band names
Sometimes when a band has a new album, they’ll arrange to play a secret gig to road test the new material. They’ll arrange a show under a fake name and then watch to
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Random music news for Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Wait: There’s a new way to calculate pi? There is! Moving to music news for July 3, 2024… More music news? Look here. BONUS: Johnny Lydon was a game show star early on.
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Random music news for Friday, June 21, 2024
Just in case you need a dose of mortality this first day of summer, Paul McCartney turned 82 this week. On the other hand, the man is still touring like a 20-year-old. That
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Our adorably naive opera singer is stumped by Eddie Vedder and “Yellow Ledbetter”
Viewers of Elizabeth Zharoff‘s “The Charismatic Voice” YouTube channel are forever sending her songs that she needs to check out. This makes for some fun reaction videos because she’s never heard most of
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Pearl Jam’s Dark Matter album is out today. I had a chance to talk to bassist Jeff Ament about it.
Back in the old CD days, radio stations used to run album release specials all the time. I did dozens of them. With streaming, though, that approach has largely fallen out of favour
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A Pearl Jam fan? Listening parties for the new album Dark Matter are happening this Sunday.
Pearl Jam is ramping up for the release of Dark Matter, their 12th album, next Friday (April 19). I’ve heard the record (it’s great!) and had a chance to talk to Jeff Ament
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Our favourite adorably naive opera singer has discovered grunge (specifically Pearl Jam)
Elizabeth Zharoff (aka the Charismatic Voice) spent so much time learning to be an opera singer that she missed out on several generations of rock music. She’s now turned that gap in her
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