In their first full band appearance on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show, Pearl Jam debuted two songs this morning (April 22) from their new album, Dark Matter, while also sharing stories with the host ...

Pearl Jam’s “Waiting for Stevie” began while singer Eddie Vedder waited for a music legend to arrive for a recording session. It’s the kind of anthem Pearl Jam used to write regularly. Think Yield’s ...

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Pearl Jam's third album, Vitalogy — aka the most significant release in the grunge survivors' long discography. And that's not just because it remains the only ...

Pearl Jam isn’t quite the last band standing from the glory days of grunge—their Seattle brothers Mudhoney still fight the good fight, delivering good new records every few years—but they are among an ...

Listen to noodling tracks by Dave Matthews Band, Grateful Dead, Goose and more. By Marc Tracy It has become a joke among a few friends and colleagues that I am the newspaper’s jam band correspondent.

Matt Cameron with Pearl Jam in New Orleans in 2025 (photo: Jim Bennett / WireImage). In a stunning development, drummer Matt Cameron, who joined Pearl Jam in 1998 shortly after Soundgarden split up, ...