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Live Review: Pearl Jam – Co-Op Arena, Manchester 25.06.2024
This was my first outing at the monstrous Co-Op Arena. After I had navigated my way to the car park and then the perimeter of the Manchester City Etihad Stadium, I found myself traversing the outskirts of the Arena and then hitting the mesmerising innards of the new complex, and it was truly magnificent. The …
News: La Luz share new single ‘Endless Afternoon’ and announce UK tour dates
Hazy psychedelia received a further rejuvenation last year with the release of the myriad, uber-melodic, luscious, harmony-laden self-titled La Luz album. The band’s fourth studio album received vast amounts of praise from both fans and critics alike; hot on it’s heels, La Luz have released ‘Endless Afternoon’, which will be released physically later in the …
See: Pearl Jam release new video for ‘Retrograde’
Seattle Alternative Rock legends, Pearl Jam, have recently released a music video to accompany their tune ‘Retrograde’. This song taken from their most recent album, ‘Gigatron’. The video is accessible on YouTube. The tune itself is Classic Pearl Jam, that begins with acoustic guitar nods to the Byrds and Neil Young, transforming into a hook driven …
Album Review: Pearl Jam – Gigaton
It’s been 29 years since Pearl Jam first released ‘Ten’ to the world. 16 million copies is an overwhelming amount of sales for any young band to handle. To then continue to flourish under that kind of shadow is paralysing for many. Just surviving the drugs, self-loathing and all-around anguish of the Grunge era would …
See: Pearl Jam release new video for Superblood Wolfman
Taken from their forthcoming album Gigaton, out March 27th via Monkeywrench / Republic Records, Legendary alt-rockers Pearl Jam have Released a new video for their recent single ‘Superblood Wolfman’. Trading in some of the Grungey angst that brought them their worldwide fame, they play it a little straighter, but go in heavy on the melody …
Track: Pearl Jam – Can’t Deny Me
Pearl Jam have released a new track ‘Can’t Deny Me’ from their forthcoming album ahead of a couple of sold out London Shows in June. Out on Monkeywrench Records/Republic Records, it mars the bands first new music since their Grammy award-winnning Lightning Bolt album in 2013. It’s a pulsating rock track, with swathes of edgy …
Mark Yarm – Everybody Loves Our Town: an oral history of Grunge
It gradually occurred to me, as I was reading this excellent and enjoyable oral history, that I didn’t, still don’t really like Grunge, or at least, any of the acts that this jerry-rigged genre supposedly covers. I briefly entertained Pearl Jam, although it was a pretty standard bit of teenage bandwaggoning – they were hip, …