Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam, Skrillex and D'Angelo are among the performers scheduled to take the stage at the Made In America music festival Jay-Z is curating in Philadelphia in September. Jay-Z will also perform, as will Janelle Monae, Passion Pit, Odd Future, Santigold, Afrojack, Calvin Harris and Rick Ross and his Maybach Music group. The festival will feature 28 acts over Labor Day weekend. Tickets for the two-day festival are to go on sale Wednesday. Jay-Z announced plans for the event last week atop the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Proceeds will benefit the United Way of...

Pearl Jam, Skrillex and D'Angelo are among the performers scheduled to take the stage at the Made In America music festival Jay-Z is curating in Philadelphia in September. Jay-Z will also perform, as will Janelle Monae, Passion Pit, Odd Future, Santigold, Afrojack, Calvin Harris and Rick Ross and his Maybach Music group. The festival will feature 28 acts over Labor Day weekend. Tickets for the two-day festival are to go on sale Wednesday. Jay-Z announced plans for the event last week atop the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Proceeds will benefit the United Way of...

Pearl Jam has spent the last decade answering to powers higher than popular appeal, gloomily waging battles of conscience with Ticketmaster, the marketplace, and their own better judgment as musicians. But there's a real war going on, and the current state of global affairs trumps the band's aversion to convention. What the world needs now (among other things) is hard rock -- the lean, brawny stuff, scraped clean of ballast, arty oddities, and anti-careerist baggage. "Why swim the channel just to get this far?

Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, T.I. and Ludacris will headline two days of concerts in September at Atlanta's Music Midtown. Organizers of the music festival announced on Tuesday that the event will take place at Piedmont Park. The musicians are slated to perform from Sept. 21-22. The two-day concert marks the second straight year Music Midtown will be held after a five-year break. Coldplay and Black Keys headlined the one-day festival last year. This year's lineup also will feature Florence and The Machine, The Avett Brothers, Joan Jett, The Blackhearts, Girl Talk, Civil...

Reprinted from late editions of yesterday's Globe. Remember alternative rock? Intricate arrangements of grungy guitar chords, fuzzily worded but zealously delivered meditations on big problems, acres of corduroy? Such earnest and roiling pleasures have been all but subsumed in the stylish post-punk din, but Pearl Jam is here to remind us just how heady it can be. Tiring, too. The band's set for a near-capacity Garden audience Wednesday night was front-loaded, energy-wise.

The skeptics can take a deep breath and exhale. Early buzz on Pearl Jam’s new album, courtesy of an interview lead guitarist Mike McCready gave this summer, was that “Backspacer’’ had pop and new-wave accents. No doubt visions of Eddie Vedder with a Flock of Seagulls haircut began haunting the dreams of Pearl Jam diehards. Turns out those new-wave flourishes are . . . well, pretty much undetectable on “Backspacer,’’ the band’s ninth studio album and one of its most cohesive and satisfying in terms of brevity, crisp production, and a sharp...

Police in Vermont say a stolen 1972 Fender Telecaster electric guitar autographed by members of Pearl Jam for a teenager with a brain tumor has been recovered — but the signatures are gone. The Burlington Free Press reports (http://bfpne.ws/rZP9Ev) two men have been jailed on charges of possession of stolen property. Police say the autographs were sanded off. Ben Hardy said his ailing brother Josh received the guitar autographed by members of Pearl Jam in 1991 in Seattle.

“We’ve got to work hard up here. We’ve got to make this show happen.’’ As mandates go, that’s a pretty great one for a rock concert, and Pearl Jam delivered in bulk on that early proclamation by frontman Eddie Vedder last night at the TD Garden. The Seattle rockers ground out a vigorous 2 1/2-hour performance that easily put another notch on their belt of strong Boston-area shows. That was no mean feat, given that Vedder noted this was the band’s 27th performance in Massachusetts.

Whether you're a fan or not, Pearl Jam deserves credit for one thing: Only a handful of artists play as long and as hard and compose their set lists as thoughtfully as the Seattle quintet. Thursday night's wide-ranging, often transporting 2 1/2-hour-plus show at TD Banknorth Garden was no exception. If every song didn't reach the heights of rock concert nirvana, at least Pearl Jam can't be accused of phoning it in, especially after the previous night's performance, which still had fans raving.

Reprinted from late editions of yesterday's Globe.Let it never be said that Pearl Jam is not a band of the people. The group's performance at the FleetCenter Tuesday night, the first of two Boston shows in anticipation of a seven-date "Vote for Change" tour that will lead into the presidential election, was quite simply a show of force. This is a band without a record label, operating on its own terms, and it continues to deliver powerful and thoughtful ideas. From the opening strains of "Release," which was the first massive singalong of the set, it was...

Police in Vermont say a stolen 1972 Fender Telecaster electric guitar autographed by members of Pearl Jam for a teenager with a brain tumor has been recovered — but the signatures are gone. The Burlington Free Press reports (http://bfpne.ws/rZP9Ev) two men have been jailed on charges of possession of stolen property. Police say the autographs were sanded off. Ben Hardy said his ailing brother Josh received the guitar autographed by members of Pearl Jam in 1991 in Seattle.

A Vermont man is seeking the return of a 1972 Fender Telecaster electric guitar that his late brother received during a 1991 trip to Seattle arranged through the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Ben Hardy says his brother Josh was 17 when he hung out with Nirvana, jammed with the Posies and received the guitar that had been autographed by Pearl Jam. The teen died from cancer three months after returning to the family's home in Durham, N.H. Ben Hardy tells the Burlington Free Press (http://bfpne.ws/vOCi2J)

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The town was buzzing yesterday after the Boston Phoenix noticed that the Boston Courant noticed that Fenway Park had applied for a permit for some concerts in September. The Phoenix guessed that Pearl Jam might be the headliner, but our Fenway sources tell us that said permit is for the band we already told you will be playing Fenway Park this summer, Boston’s own Dropkick Murphys. That said, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder has been to Fenway Park this summer. On Friday, just a few days after his solo gig at the Citi Wang Theatre, he was spotted watching the Sox from his pal Theo...

EDDIE VEDDER With Glen Hansard At: Citi Performing Arts Center’s Wang Theatre, last night Eddie Vedder has been giving a lot of props to his ukulele, saying that the tiny stringed instrument is the real star of his recent solo album. And in his performance last night at the Citi Performing Arts Center’s Wang Theatre, the Pearl Jam singer did begin with a batch of ukulele songs. But it became clear pretty quickly that the ukuleles, guitars, and mandolins were not the most important instruments on stage.

“We’ve got to work hard up here. We’ve got to make this show happen.’’ As mandates go, that’s a pretty great one for a rock concert, and Pearl Jam delivered in bulk on that early proclamation by frontman Eddie Vedder last night at the TD Garden. The Seattle rockers ground out a vigorous 2 1/2-hour performance that easily put another notch on their belt of strong Boston-area shows. That was no mean feat, given that Vedder noted this was the band’s 27th performance in Massachusetts.

Let it never be said that Pearl Jam is not a band of the people. Their performance at the FleetCenter last night, the first of two in Boston in anticipation of a seven-date "Vote for Change" tour that will lead into the presidential election, was quite simply a show of force. This is a band without a record label, operating on their own terms, and they continue to deliver powerful and thoughtful ideas. From the first strains of "Release," which was the first massive sing-a-long of the set, it was obvious the band had the capacity crowd on its side.

The skeptics can take a deep breath and exhale. Early buzz on Pearl Jam’s new album, courtesy of an interview lead guitarist Mike McCready gave this summer, was that “Backspacer’’ had pop and new-wave accents. No doubt visions of Eddie Vedder with a Flock of Seagulls haircut began haunting the dreams of Pearl Jam diehards. Turns out those new-wave flourishes are . . . well, pretty much undetectable on “Backspacer,’’ the band’s ninth studio album and one of its most cohesive and satisfying in terms of brevity, crisp production, and a sharp focus.

For what was ultimately a simple, uncluttered performance, there were certainly a fair amount of seemingly frivolous trappings during Eddie Vedder's performance last night at the Opera House. (He plays a second show tonight.) There were venue-appropriate fake Playbills (mostly covering Vedder-adjacent topics like "Into The Wild" and pet political issues), a tech crew incongruously dressed in lab coats and a series of backdrops that placed the Pearl Jam singer in such exotic locales as a tenement alleyway.