This past weekend, Pearl Jam celebrated their 20th year together as a band by headlining their own Pearl Jam Twenty festival at the Wisconsin ski resort town of East Troy. Festival attendees had to endure a whole ton of rain, but they also got some big one-night-only collaborations. The biggest of those was almost certainly [...]

Pearl Jam celebrated their 20th Anniversary on Day 1 of their PJ20 Destination Weekend Saturday night in Alpine Valley

There’ve been a few complaints about Band Of Horses’ Infinite Arms, but folks were all smiles when Ben Bridwell joined Pearl Jam onstage for a rousing, shout-along rendition of post-Mother Love Bone crew Temple Of The Dog’s grunge classic “Hunger Strike” at Madison Square Garden on Friday. It hap...

Fans of Soundgarden circa that press shot had a rough last decade. Yes I'm thinking Audioslave, but in particular it's the tail end of the '00s that hurt the most, thanks to Chris Cornell's bizarre nosedive to a place where not even trenchant Trent Reznor zings could paint the singer in a light as silly as his Timbaland collabs did. But after th...

Former Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell and Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell joined Pearl Jam onstage at Los Angeles’ Gibson Amphitheatre this past Tuesday (October 6). Cornell joined frontman Eddie Vedder for Hunger Strike, which transformed the band into Temple Of The Dog, the stars’ short-lived tribute band - they released just ...