When not sidelined by various health concerns, Pearl Jam have been touring hard this year, and those travels brought them to Scotiabank Arena in Toronto last night. A few hours before the show, news broke that Queen Elizabeth II had died in the United Kingdom. Eddie Vedder chose to mark the occasion by banging out a quick cover of “Her...

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