A look into how Pearl Jam lightened up with age, via a 2009 live performance of the Devo song 'Whip It' complete with ...

There are many rumors surrounding how the trailblazing grunge rock band Pearl Jam got its name, but the truth is that it’s a lot simpler than most realize. Initially, before the band was renamed ...

Discussing on the records that scored his life, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder had highlighted two bands from New York who scared as much as thrilled him.

Pearl Jam in turn sang about political dissidents, kids shooting themselves in the classroom, and women trapped in bad relationships. In that respect (and many others), grunge represented an ...

Although it was Nirva-na which first codified the grunge movement’s revolutionary spirit, it would be Pearl Jam among Seattle’s “Big Four” (rounded out by Soundgarden and Alice in Chains ...

Though grunge bands dominated pop culture in the 1990s, the roots of alternative rock lay in the classic rock and blues of previous generations. You can hear The Who and Neil Young in Pearl Jam.

“Britt wasn’t listening to any grunge at all before that,” Gossard says with a laugh. “Josh Evans thought this song could be a good introduction to Pearl Jam that Britt could relate t ...