Pearl Jam finishing up new album

[zak52]

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7179909/pearljam?rssfeed=musicnews&rnd=1110907847168&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.1040

Pearl Jam Find Their Edge

Rockers wrapping new album, readying tour

Pearl Jam are almost finished with their follow-up to 2002's Riot Act. The band plans to spend the next three weeks in the studio recording vocals and mixing. If all goes according to plan, the yet-to-be-titled disc could be released as early as May.

"There's a lot more up-tempo stuff," says drummer Matt Cameron. "It's a lot more rockin' than our last one." Song titles like "Severed Hand," "Worldwide Suicide" and "2x4" seem to reflect that harder edge. Though the track listing has not been finalized, other candidates include "Marker" and "Cold Concession."

Cameron, who teamed with guitarist Mike McCready on the track "Unemployable," characterizes the sessions as more collaborative. "We reworked everything together in the studio," he says. "It's a really healthy environment -- everyone really just wants to dig in and make the songs as good as they can be."

Pearl Jam hope to support the new record with a summer tour.

[auto]

:up:

[Applejack]

Sounds like it might be more like Yield, which is one of my favorite PJ albums.

I'll definitely be picking this up on the release date.

As far as the summer tour goes, :drool:

[Hollowgen]

new album: yay!

tour: wheeeee more concerts that sell out so fast i can't get a ticket!

[Artman]

New Pearl Jam and Audioslave in the same month... :drool:

[SpaceBoy]

Yeah read this over on tenclub awhile ago..

Sounds good about the album and tour.. Love me some pj.

[lookslikeme]

Yeah read this over on tenclub awhile ago..

Sounds good about the album and tour.. Love me some pj.

Where? I've been searching the site for weeks, for info on this rumor but haven't been able to find anything. Hopefully it's true, but I'm gonna try not to get my hopes up till I see some reputable sources. Yes, I'm saying Rolling Stone isn't a reputable source!

[zak52]

There's a new song called "Crapshoot" that you can check out on this page. It's a live recording and the quality isn't that great.

http://www.theskyiscrape.com/news/index.php#1

[Jack's Smirking]

There's a new song called "Crapshoot" that you can check out on this page. It's a live recording and the quality isn't that great.

http://www.theskyiscrape.com/news/index.php#1

Awesome :banana: Thanks!

[astrochimp]

One of the few bands/artists where i truly look forward to getting the cd the day it comes out and listening to it for the 1st time.Thanks for the info :)

[Rival11]

Great news......can't wait :up:

[gerrythedon]

Pearl Jam Halfway Home On New Album

Pearl Jam is progressing on its eighth studio album in Seattle. Guitarist Mike McCready tells Billboard.com the band has "about 20-25" songs in the hopper, comprising "some ballads and some pretty harder stuff, and some Who-ish type-stuff."

In addition, McCready says Pearl Jam is approaching the project from a new angle. "How we're recording it is a first," he says. "We've been recording for awhile, and then we'll sit down and listen to the songs and then take a couple of weeks off, come back and re-record them and add stuff. We generally just go in, do some demos and record."

McCready is hoping the as-yet-untitled album will be out before the end of the year, with a tour to follow. The set will be Pearl Jam's first for J Records/BMG, following the dissolution of its career-long relationship with Epic.

However, the guitarist says Pearl Jam is "not anywhere close to being done. We're about halfway there. It's going to be a really awesome record, and I'm not just saying that like every band member says it. It's been really exciting."

The opportunity to revisit and potentially add to songs has been a welcome one, the guitarist says. "I've woken up a few times and had a riff going in my head that I really liked, say, of [bassist] Jeff [Ament]'s or something," he offers. "It's like, OK, cool. That one is sticking in my head. I want to keep doing that. Let's do that. Whereas before, you'd just do it and it'd be done."

Last month during a benefit at Seattle's Paramount Theatre, the band unveiled a fast, punky song co-written by McCready with guitarist Stone Gossard, tentatively titled "Crapshoot Rapture."

"I'm certainly by no means a punk rocker at all," McCready says with a laugh. "But, the guys in my band are. Jeff and Stone and Ed have that in them, and those guys bring that out of me. We have this joke that my punk is more Dio-like."

As previously reported, McCready will lead the U.F.O. tribute band Flight To Mars at a benefit tomorrow (April 8) at Seattle's Showbox for the Northwest chapter of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation. Earlier in the day, he will serve as the featured speaker at a CCFA luncheon at Seattle's Westin.

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[brooke789]

new album: yay!

tour: wheeeee more concerts that sell out so fast i can't get a ticket!

If you join the tenclub you'll most likely be able to purchase tickets before they go on sale to the public and probably get pretty decent seats too.

[SpaceBoy]

If you join the tenclub you'll most likely be able to purchase tickets before they go on sale to the public and probably get pretty decent seats too.

Well not at this point... Well getting good seats I mean. There are so many members now, and also at least last time you could buy tickets to as many shows as you wanted, you'll likely not get that good of seats, at least what I would consider good. However, you should be able to get them..

My buddy use to get second row center all the time and now has trouble getting top 5 rows, myself get just ok seats, been a member since late 90s though, he was much earlier..

[SpaceBoy]

Got an email from rumor pit, saying to make sure your contact info is correct, and you're not yet a member you may want to join.. hinting they were told something of interest.. guessing about possibly some upcoming tours this summer or at least I'm hoping.. So might want to get your stuff in order..

Here is the message..

"Welcome *to *the
************************************ **PEARL*JAM RUMOR*PIT
**************************************Reminder *- April 11, 2005
*
Hey Jammers! This newsletter was created as a direct link to the fans. If you would like to ask a question about Pearl Jam, please direct your questions (not fan club issues) to OfTheSea@aol.com or DigitalKat@aol.com.

*
We're here to put a little bug in your ear because a little birdie paid us a visit and told us, "tweet tweet ca-caaw ca-caaw." After careful research, we learned that it translates to: *

Please be sure your fan club membership is current and your mailing*information is up to date by April 19th. And if you haven't joined the fan club yet - what are you waiting for, eh?
*
You can go to the "Goods" section of http://www.tenclub.net/**to*join, renew, or update your fan club membership. You can update your email or postal*address at address@tenclub.net, and don't forget to keep an*eye on the News area of http://www.pearljam.com/**for*additional updates.
*
Peace and much love,
Kat and *Sea"

[briank]

well I went ahead and renewed/got a membership just in case.
I think it'll be a "new" membership because it's been so long since I've had the membership. Never should have let it lapse, I think it was an old email and address.

But for the last two tours I actually had GREAT luck getting GREAT seats without the tenclub. I actually was in the first 5 rows for the Boston shows.

[SpaceBoy]

well I went ahead and renewed/got a membership just in case.
I think it'll be a "new" membership because it's been so long since I've had the membership. Never should have let it lapse, I think it was an old email and address.

But for the last two tours I actually had GREAT luck getting GREAT seats without the tenclub. I actually was in the first 5 rows for the Boston shows.

You can prob just email tenclub and explain the situation, I know the past they have let people renew their memberships and keep their ids. Not sure if there is a limit on the amount of time that can pass or not. Might be worth a shot.

Really about tix? Was it a show added after the initial tour was accounced?I'm sure that was the case, you caught one of the other boston shows added after the fact.. they added 2 I believe last tour, and tenclub members really only had a chance at the intial tour run, since all orders for tix had to be in, in advance. That would explain it, if that's not the case, that is odd, since all the good seats are normally held. Either way nice.

[Mr. Cinema]

great news

[Meatpants]

You can prob just email tenclub and explain the situation, I know the past they have let people renew their memberships and keep their ids. Not sure if there is a limit on the amount of time that can pass or not. Might be worth a shot.

That's definitely true, I accidentally let my membership lapse twice over the years, and Kat @ 10club is very good about getting you reinstated.

[Mordred]

As previously reported, McCready will lead the U.F.O. tribute band Flight To Mars at a benefit tomorrow (April 8) at Seattle's Showbox for the Northwest chapter of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation. Earlier in the day, he will serve as the featured speaker at a CCFA luncheon at Seattle's Westin.Is any Flight to Mars stuff available online or for purchase? I'm a HUGE UFO fan and would love to check that out.

[briank]

You can prob just email tenclub and explain the situation, I know the past they have let people renew their memberships and keep their ids. Not sure if there is a limit on the amount of time that can pass or not. Might be worth a shot.

Really about tix? Was it a show added after the initial tour was accounced?I'm sure that was the case, you caught one of the other boston shows added after the fact.. they added 2 I believe last tour, and tenclub members really only had a chance at the intial tour run, since all orders for tix had to be in, in advance. That would explain it, if that's not the case, that is odd, since all the good seats are normally held. Either way nice.

It's been both scenarios (added shows and original shows).
It is much easier to get the "last minutes" release tickets (usually 6 - 48 hours before the show) to the "added" shows.
But I've seen it happen for original shows too.
Boston's Tweeter Center is known for holding a number of good/great seats out for VIP/Corporate.
Also had luck with the MSG show as well.

I'll try emailing KAT but don't think I'll have much luck.

[gerrythedon]

Pearl Jam Heading To Great White North

Pearl Jam will embark on a 15-date tour of Canada this fall, on which it will debut material intended for its as-yet-untitled new studio album. The trek, which was hinted at in a recent newsletter to members of the band's Ten Club fan association, will begin Sept. 2 in Vancouver and wrap Sept. 24 in St. John's, Newfoundland. Ten Club members can purchase tickets beginning today; tickets go on-sale to the general public at the end of May.

Earlier this month, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready revealed to Billboard.com that the band was about halfway finished with the new album, which he hopes will be released before the end of the year via J Records/BMG. He said Pearl Jam has "about 20-25" songs in the mix, comprising "some ballads and some pretty harder stuff, and some Who-ish type-stuff."

McCready said the band had been approaching the project from a new angle by revisiting songs after they were first put to tape, as opposed to Pearl Jam's usual approach, where, "we generally just go in, do some demos and record." "It is like taking them out live, although that's an exciting way to do it too," he said of the process.

The upcoming tour will mark several changes in the way Ten Club tickets are distributed to members. For the first time, seats will only be available online via PearlJam.com, and fans will not have to wait in long lines on the day of the show for an opportunity to obtain the closest tickets to the stage.

Pearl Jam last toured in the fall as part of the Vote for Change outing, and has only played one show since, a March benefit for Seattle's Northwest School at the city's Paramount Theatre.

Here are Pearl Jam's Canadian tour dates:

Sept. 2: Vancouver (GM Place)
Sept. 4: Calgary, Alb. (Pengrowth Saddledome)
Sept. 5: Edmonton (Rexall Place)
Sept. 7: Saskatoon, Sask. (Credit Union Centre)
Sept. 8: Winnipeg, Manitoba (MTS Centre)
Sept. 9: Thunder Bay, Ont. (Fort William Gardens)
Sept. 11: Kitchener, Ont. (Memorial Auditorium)
Sept. 12: London, Ont. (Labatt Centre)
Sept. 13: Hamilton, Ont. (Copps Coliseum)
Sept. 15: Montreal (Bell Centre)
Sept. 16: Ottawa, Ont. (Corel Centre)
Sept. 20: Toronto (Air Canada Centre)
Sept. 20: Quebec City (Colisee Pepsi)
Sept. 22: Halifax, Nova Scotia (Metro Centre)
Sept. 24: St. John's, Newfoundland (Mile One Stadium)

[BILLBOARD.com]

[Flashback]

If you join the tenclub you'll most likely be able to purchase tickets before they go on sale to the public and probably get pretty decent seats too.

You and every fan as well as every ticket broker. It is worth to a ticket broker the price of the club and sell the tickets they get.

[briank]

You and every fan as well as every ticket broker. It is worth to a ticket broker the price of the club and sell the tickets they get.

well that's why Pearl Jam makes you pick up the tickets at Will-Call, plus they won't tell you where the seats are ahead of time.

So the "scalper" would be limited to two tickets, would have to sell them as being undisclosed location, and then schedule to meet you at the venue to hand the tickets off. NOT WORTH IT.

Especially since the scalpers now days, no to make the most money it's by getting GREAT seats and selling them as EARLY as possible on places like Ebay. Because as the show gets closer there are tons of people dumping tickets, and tons of last minute release seats available.

I've been to TONS of sold out concerts where you can pick up tickets outside the venue the night of fore WELL BELOW FACE VALUE.
Not worth it to "risk" and sell outside for above face.

[Hollowgen]

word. good job pearl jam. after the benaroya hall fiasco, it's good to see them trying to get a hold on scalping.

[SpaceBoy]

Saw the email about the Canada shows earlier. That's cool they're touring, but I'm a bit bummed they're not coming to the US earlier, but oh well I can wait.

Seen them to many times to count, and no free time to make it up North more..

[mkdevo]

almost put in for montreal tix this morning, but i think i might pass.. tickets are fucking expensive - they better not be that much when they do their US tour.

i was also thinking to myself, do they really need this $$ 5 months in advance?? :confused:

The base ticket price for the tour is $59.50 CDN ($52.06 USD) per ticket plus applicable fees. Ten Club tickets available in pairs only. No single ticket sales. There will be a $3.50 USD service charge per ticket plus a $1.53 USD bank card processing fee per ticket.

[Celtic Bob]

I just signed up for "Tenclub" so I can get tix for the St.John's show on Sept 24th. This will be my first time seeing them.
Anyone know if they are doing the "Bootleg" cd's this time around? What is the release date for new cd?
tks
b.

[oppie1]

I just signed up for "Tenclub" so I can get tix for the St.John's show on Sept 24th. This will be my first time seeing them.
Anyone know if they are doing the "Bootleg" cd's this time around? What is the release date for new cd?
tks
b.

you're too late.. the cutoff for joining the 10c and getting tix for this canadian tour was last tuesday...

[Celtic Bob]

I found that out AFTER I signed up :( Oh well, hopefully I can still get a good ticket when they go on sale to public next month.

[gerrythedon]

Pearl Jam Salutes Retailers With Surprise Set

Pearl Jam treated 120 independent music retailers visiting Seattle for the annual Coalition of Independent Music Stores convention to a private show Friday at the city's Easy Street Records store. The group ran through such oldies as "Even Flow," "Spin the Black Circle" and "Corduroy," the new song "Crapshoot" and covers of the Dead Kennedys' "Bleed for Me" and X's "The New World," the latter featuring X principal John Doe on vocals.

Several Pearl Jam members buy their music at Easy Street, and frontman Eddie Vedder had seen several in-store performances there in the past. "This just came from the heart," Pearl Jam manager Kelly Curtis tells Billboard.com. "The band said, 'We love this store, you have a bunch of people coming to town who love music, so let's do it.'"

"This was easily the best in-store performance our members have ever seen," says CIMS president Don Van Cleave. "We all walked away stunned."

Other acts that performed around Seattle as part of the convention included Kings Of Leon, Kinski and members of My Morning Jacket and Death Cab For Cutie.

Vedder also re-appeared at Easy Street on Sunday to perform during Doe's set. The pair sung "The New World" and X's "Poor Girl," previously recorded by Vedder with the Supersuckers for the 2000 benefit album "Free the West Memphis Three."

As previously reported, Pearl Jam is in the midst of recording its eighth studio album, material from which will be previewed on a September tour of Canada. Curtis says the band is hoping to release the set, which will be its first for J Records/BMG, before the end of the year.

[BILLBOARD.com]

[JHosk]

Nice....just got myself a ticket to their last show on teh Canadian tour. tickets sold out so fast for the first show in St. John's, NL, that they added a second. Got some pretty decent seats. Really looking forward to this show.

[Celtic Bob]

Nice....just got myself a ticket to their last show on teh Canadian tour. tickets sold out so fast for the first show in St. John's, NL, that they added a second. Got some pretty decent seats. Really looking forward to this show.

10c seemed to have worked for me even though I signed up late. I have been charged for my 2 tix for the Sept.24th show. Should be a good time.

[SpaceBoy]

Figured this news could fall under this thread..

Just got my message from the rumor pit, and is confirmed on tenclub.net

This is going to be a tough ticket, but hopefully can land one via the fanclub and nail GA Tix, else who knows, might be broker time :)

Pearl Jam To Play
A Special Engagement At Borgata:
Two Shows Scheduled
For September 30 And October 1
Tickets Onsale Saturday, July 9, 10am
Atlantic City, June 29, 2005 – Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa and Electric Factory Concerts are proud to announce that Pearl Jam will perform two concerts at Borgata on September 30 and October 1, 2005. Tickets for both shows go on sale Saturday, July 9th at 10AM. Indie, punk female trio Sleater-Kinney will open.

Pearl Jam was one of the key groups responsible for popularizing alternative music in the early 90’s. Hailing from Seattle, the band released foot stomping anthems that made them rock legends overnight. Throughout their recording career, Pearl Jam have sold more than 60 million albums worldwide and established a large and loyal fan base. Pearl Jam fuses the riff-heavy stadium rock of the ‘70s with the grit and anger of ‘80s post-punk, without ever neglecting hooks and choruses.

Pearl Jam is Matt Cameron (Drums), Jeff Ament (Bass), Mike McCready (Guitar), Stone Gossard (Guitar), and Eddie Vedder (Vocals/Guitar). The band has shared the stage with The Rolling Stones, The Doors, and The Who and is well known for its energetic, dynamic and varied live performances. In 2000, the band began releasing “official bootlegs” of its live shows in an effort to increase the quality and decrease the price of bootleg CDs; they have sold millions of these official bootlegs to date. Over the past fifteen years, Pearl Jam has released five platinum selling albums and two gold selling studio albums. A much-anticipated new release is due out next year. Tickets for these shows are $50 and $95 and can be secured by calling Ticketmaster at 800.736.1420 or by logging on to ticketmaster.com.

Borgata is a joint venture of Boyd Gaming Corporation (NYSE: BYD) and MGM MIRAGE (NYSE: MGG). Located at Renaissance Pointe in Atlantic City, it features 2,000 guest rooms and suites, 125,000 square feet of gaming, 145 gaming tables, 3,600 slot machines, 11 destination restaurants, 11 retail boutiques, a 50,000 square foot spa, 70,000 square feet of event space, and parking for 7,100 cars.

[gerrythedon]

Pearl Jam Feeling 'Aggressive' On New Album

As it prepares for its maiden tour of South America, which begins Nov. 22 in Santiago, Chile, Pearl Jam continues to work on its new studio album, which is due next spring via J Records.

"It's been a difficult record and it's like sometimes the harder something is, then the more valuable it becomes," frontman Eddie Vedder said earlier this week during a Brazilian radio interview. "It's easily the best stuff we've done but also some of the hardest stuff. It's very aggressive, because again, it's kind of a product of what it's like to be an American these days. It's pretty aggressive, especially when you turn it loud."

The band has been working on and off throughout the year on the as-yet-untitled set, but Vedder admitted, "It's not quite done. I'm hoping to finish the last of the songs while I'm down [in South America]. I'm bringing my tape machines and all that down. If I can come back and finish the last few songs in January, then it will be out in April or something."

For now, Pearl Jam is not planning to unveil any new songs in a live setting. "We want them to be heard for the first time when the record comes out," Vedder said.

But he added he had been mulling an album title that was a play on Soundgarden's "Superunknown": "I was thinking of the word 'un-owned' -- not owned by anybody," he said. "The sky is un-owned. The moon is un-owned. We're un-owned. We want to remain un-owned. The title was 'Superun-owned.'"

Continuing a new initiative launched during Pearl Jam's recent fall North American tour, the South American shows will be available for paid download from the band's Web site within hours of their completion

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[hippochris]

:up: although i think the album title is a little corny. Hopefully they don't stick with it.

[Flynn]

Very corny if that's indeed the album title... I like the concept, but simply 'Unowned' would be a great title.

[gerrythedon]

The first taste of music from the new Pearl Jam album, the single "World Wide Suicide," was digitally delivered by J Records this morning (Feb. 24) to U.S. rock radio outlets in the form of a 15-second chorus snippet. The full track, which resembles the groove-driven 1998 single "Do the Evolution," isn't due to impact stations for another two weeks.

At deadline, no other details have been confirmed about the as-yet-untitled album, which will be Pearl Jam's studio debut for J. It's the follow-up to 2002's Epic swan song "Riot Act," which has sold 497,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Before the band gets busy with promotion and touring, guitarist Mike McCready will stage a March 18 benefit for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation at Seattle's Showbox. McCready will play with his UFO tribute band, Flight To Mars, on a bill that also features the Supersuckers and Lee Rude and the Trainwrecks.

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[RN2BE]

Damn...Riot Act didn't even go gold?

Why is this album taking so long to make? It seemed like they were almost done a year ago.

[DVD Josh]

Damn...Riot Act didn't even go gold?

Why is this album taking so long to make? It seemed like they were almost done a year ago.

Pearl Jam has had some pretty long breaks between albums before.

I really like Riot Act. It's at worst my fourth favorite PJ album, maybe even third.

[MWB]

Pearl Jam has had some pretty long breaks between albums before.

Eh, not really. They were releasing a new album every two years or so, up until Riot Act--not really that big of a gap between records in this day and age. By the time this one comes out, it will have been three-and-a-half years since Riot Act, which is a long time for them. It has been tempered somewhat, though, by Lost Dogs in '03 and the greatest hits album in '04.

[emanon]

Here's the 15-second sampler:

http://www.fmqbproductions.com/epks/2006/pearljam/
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a346/choop80/row1.jpg

[SpaceBoy]

Can't wait, also from the sounds possible tour info on the 7th!

The newly updated pearl jam site kicks @ss. Love how they used the Klausen art for it, and have a background reveal just to check out the prints.. Way cool :thumbsup:

http://www.pearljam.com/

[emanon]

Hell yes!

Free single available for DL on the 7th, if I remember correctly.

BTW, do you frequent the Red Mosquito forum? If not...why not? ;)

http://www.theskyiscrape.com/phpBB2/index.php

[SpaceBoy]

BTW, do you frequent the Red Mosquito forum? If not...why not? ;)

I myself frequent it all the time, although I don't post to it at all, to honest not sure I'm even registered there.

Also always check out tenclub boards although they're pretty bad, and blackredyellow, because I tend to collect their tour posters.

[Josh H]

Hell yes!

Free single available for DL on the 7th, if I remember correctly.


The 8th, starting at 6 a.m.

Also, the new album will just be self-titled, so none of that goofy "super-unowned" crap rumored earlier. :D

[emanon]

The 8th, starting at 6 a.m.

Also, the new album will just be self-titled, so none of that goofy "super-unowned" crap rumored earlier. :D

Oh yeah - that would be the date listed in that huge-ass image i posted a few messages up! whoops!

[gerrythedon]

[since the album is done and a release date has been announced]

... started a new thread. :)
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?p=6817208#post6817208