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'''Pearl Jam''' is an American ] band formed in ], Washington, in 1990. The band's lineup consists of founding members ] (bass guitar), ] (rhythm guitar), ] (lead guitar), and ] (lead vocals, guitar), as well as ] (drums), who joined in 1998. Keyboardist ] has also been a touring/session member with the band since 2002. Former members include ] (an original member), ], ], and ], all of whom were the band's drummers from 1990 to 1998. Pearl Jam has outsold and outlasted many of its contemporaries from the early 1990s, and is considered one of the most influential bands from that decade,<ref>{{cite web |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |title=''Lost Dogs'' Overview |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r666816|pure_url=yes}} |access-date=June 22, 2007 |work=Allmusic}}</ref> dubbed "the most popular American rock and roll band of the '90s".<ref name="Erlewine">{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |title=Pearl Jam > Biography |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p5118|pure_url=yes}} |access-date=June 22, 2007 |work=Allmusic}}</ref>
'''Pearl Jam''' (formed in 1990 in ], ]) is a ] considered one of the most popular and influential artists of their ].<ref></ref> Their name is intimately tied to the ] movement of the early 1990s, and they are considered one of the ] of grunge music<ref></ref>, alongside ], ], and ]. Although they moved further away from the grunge sound in time, their newest album, '']'', delivers a sound reminiscent of their early grunge days. Pearl Jam are also one of the few mainstream ] bands that has remained active well beyond their contemporaries. Currently, the group boasts a large fan base which contributes to making the band one of the most popular live acts in the world.

Formed after the demise of Gossard and Ament's previous bands, ] and ], Pearl Jam broke into the mainstream with their debut album, '']'', in 1991. ''Ten'' stayed on the '']'' ] chart for nearly five years, and has gone on to become one of the highest-selling rock records ever, going ] in the United States. Released in 1993, Pearl Jam's second album, '']'', sold over 950,000 copies in its first week of release, setting the record for most copies of an album sold in its first week of release at the time. Their third album, '']'' (1994), became the second-fastest-selling CD in history at the time, with more than 877,000 units sold in its first week.

One of the key bands in the ] of the early 1990s, Pearl Jam's members often shunned popular music industry practices such as making music videos or participating in interviews. The band had also sued ], claiming it had monopolized the concert-ticket market. In 2006, ''Rolling Stone'' described the band as having "spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing apart their own fame".<ref name="secondcoming">{{cite magazine | last = Hiatt | first = Brian | url = https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pearl-jam-the-second-coming-237589/ | title = The Second Coming of Pearl Jam | magazine = Rolling Stone | date = June 16, 2006 | access-date = June 22, 2007|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211008180429/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pearl-jam-the-second-coming-237589/ |archive-date = October 8, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>

Pearl Jam had sold more than 85{{nbsp}}million albums worldwide by 2018, including nearly 32{{nbsp}}million albums in the United States by 2012,<ref>{{cite web|title=Top Selling Artists|url=http://riaa.com/goldandplatinum.php?content_selector=top-selling-artists|access-date=February 11, 2012|work=]}}</ref> making them one of the ]. Pearl Jam was inducted into the ] in 2017 in its first year of eligibility.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pearl-jam-joan-baez-lead-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-2017-class-w456839 |title=Pearl Jam, Joan Baez, Tupac Lead Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2017 Class |access-date=December 20, 2016 |date=December 20, 2016 |first=Andy |last=Greene |magazine=] |archive-date=December 21, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221132949/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pearl-jam-joan-baez-lead-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-2017-class-w456839 |url-status=dead }}</ref> They were ranked eighth in a readers' poll by ''Rolling Stone'' magazine in its "Top Ten Live Acts of All Time" issue.<ref name="PJ is life" /> Throughout its career, the band has also promoted wider social and political issues, such as ] sentiments and opposition to ]. Vedder acts as the band's spokesman on these issues.


==History== ==History==
===Background (1984–1990)===
===1980s===
] and ] were members of Seattle-based grunge band ] during the mid-1980s. Green River toured and recorded to moderate success, but disbanded in 1987 due to a stylistic division between the pair and bandmates ] and ].<ref>Azerrad, Michael. '']''. Little Brown and Company, 2001. {{ISBN|0-316-78753-1}}, p. 422.</ref>
<!--all historical material can be verified at http://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/articles/gm082093_2.shtml and in the 8/20/93 issue of Goldmine within an article by Jo Ann Greene-->
Pearl Jam's history starts with the seminal grunge band ], which formed in 1983 out of a number of earlier Seattle bands, including Deranged Diction, Mr. Epp & the Calculations, March of Crimes, Spluii Numa, the ], and the Ducky Boys. ] included ] (of March of Crimes and the Ducky Boys), ] (of Deranged Diction), ] (of Mr. Epp, Spluii Numa, and Limp Richerds, and later ]), ] (of Mr. Epp, the Limp Richerds, and the Ducky Boys, and later ]), and drummer Alex Vincent. ] toured and recorded to moderate success, but disbanded in 1987. They would be remembered as one of the first significant bands of the Seattle "grunge" genre, and Arm is often credited as having coined the term.<ref></ref>


In 1988, Gossard and Ament had begun playing with ] vocalist ], eventually organizing the band ]. Throughout '88 and '89, Mother Love Bone would record and tour to increasing interest, and found the support of PolyGram records, who signed the band in early 1989. Their debut album, ''Apple'' was released in 1990, but tragically, Wood would not be around to see it, as he died of a heroin overdose in March of that year. In late 1987, Gossard and Ament began playing with ] vocalist ], eventually organizing the band ]. In 1988 and 1989, the band recorded and toured to increasing interest. ] signed the band in early 1989. Mother Love Bone's debut album, '']'', was released in July 1990, four months after Wood died of a ].<ref>{{cite web | last = Friend | first = Lonn M. | url = http://web.stargate.net/soundgarden/articles/rip_7-92.shtml | title = Heroes... and Heroin | work = ] |date=July 1992 | access-date = June 22, 2007}}</ref>


===1990=== ===Formation (1990)===
Ament and Gossard were devastated by the death of Wood and the resulting demise of Mother Love Bone. Gossard spent his time afterwards writing material that was harder-edged than what he had been doing previously.<ref name="crowe">{{cite magazine | last = Crowe | first = Cameron | url = https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10560431/five_against_the_world | title = Five Against the World | magazine = Rolling Stone | date = October 28, 1993 | access-date = June 23, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070619084803/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10560431/five_against_the_world |archive-date = June 19, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> After a few months, Gossard started practicing with fellow Seattle guitarist Mike McCready, whose band, Shadow, had broken up; McCready in turn encouraged Gossard to reconnect with Ament.<ref name="secondcoming" /> After practicing for a while, the trio sent out a five-song demo tape in order to find a singer and a drummer. They gave former ] drummer ] the demo to see if he would be interested in joining the band and to distribute the demo to anyone he felt might fit the lead vocal position.<ref name="crowe" />
]. (1991)]] With the death of Wood and the disintegration of Mother Love Bone in 1990, Ament and Gossard set out to create their next band. They recruited former Shadow guitarist Mike McCready and began playing recreationally as a trio. During this time, ] frontman ] had written two songs as a tribute to Wood, with Gossard, Ament, and McCready agreeing to help record the tracks. The project was eventually called ], after a lyric from a Mother Love Bone song entitled "Man of Golden Words".


Irons passed on the invitation but gave the demo to his friend ].<ref>Wall, Mick. "Alive". ''Nirvana and the Story of Grunge''. '']'' p. 95</ref> Vedder was the lead vocalist for the San Diego band ] and worked part-time at a gas station. He listened to the tape shortly before going surfing, where lyrics came to him.<ref name="crowe" /> He then recorded the vocals to three of the songs ("]", "]", and "Footsteps") in what he later described as a "mini-opera" titled ''Mamasan''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Pearl Jam Twenty |last=Pearl Jam |year= 2011 |isbn= 978-1-84887-493-0 |page= 39|publisher=Atlantic }}</ref> Vedder sent the tape with his vocals back to the three Seattle musicians, who were impressed enough to fly Vedder up to Seattle for an audition. Within a week, Vedder had joined the band.<ref name="crowe" />
With the help of ] drummer Matt Cameron (who would join Pearl Jam in the late 1990s), the group began recording a number of songs, many of which would eventually be re-worked into demos for the future Gossard / Ament / McCready band. One such song by Gossard actually wound up as both a Pearl Jam song, "Footsteps", and a Temple of the Dog track, "Times of Trouble".


With the addition of ] on drums, the band took the name Mookie Blaylock, in reference to the then-active ].<ref name="Modern Drummer 1993"/> The band played its first official show at the Off Ramp Café in Seattle on October 22, 1990.<ref name="timeline">{{cite web | url=http://www.pearljam.com/timeline/ | title=Pearl Jam: Timeline | access-date=June 27, 2007 | publisher=Pearljam.com |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080109033804/http://www.pearljam.com/timeline/ |archive-date = January 9, 2008}}</ref> They opened for ] at the ] in Seattle on December 22, 1990,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eTg4whS9ClUC&q=credibility |title=Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music, 2009 |isbn=9781554903474 |access-date=June 6, 2017|last1=Prato |first1=Greg |date=December 15, 2010 |publisher=ECW Press }}</ref> and served as the opening act for the band's '']'' tour in 1991.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Robinson|first1=John|title=Kurt Cobain Raised the Bar for Us...|url=http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/pearl_jam/interviews/12930|magazine=]|access-date=July 21, 2017|archive-date=December 5, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205145416/http://www.uncut.co.uk/music/pearl_jam/interviews/12930|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.twofeetthick.com/2011/02/19/we-toured-young-mookie-blaylock-alice-in-chains-199/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811174439/http://www.twofeetthick.com/2011/02/19/we-toured-young-mookie-blaylock-alice-in-chains-199/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=August 11, 2016|title=We Toured Young: Mookie Blaylock and Alice in Chains 1991|date=February 19, 2011|access-date=July 21, 2017}}</ref> Mookie Blaylock soon signed to ] and renamed themselves Pearl Jam.<ref name="Erlewine" /> In an early promotional interview, Vedder said that the name "Pearl Jam" was a reference to his great-grandmother Pearl, who was married to a Native American and had a special recipe for ]-laced jam.<ref name="rhrn">Neely, Kim. "Right Here, Right Now". ''Rolling Stone''. October 31, 1991.</ref> In a 2006 cover story for ''Rolling Stone'', Vedder admitted that this story was "total bullshit", but added that he did have a great-grandmother named Pearl. Ament and McCready explained that Ament came up with "pearl", and that the band later settled on Pearl Jam after attending a ] concert in which he extended his songs as improvisations (i.e. "jams") of 15–20 minutes in length.<ref name="secondcoming" />
Without a drummer or a singer the trio began actively looking for bandmates, and even looked outside the Seattle scene for people with whom they had no previous connection. One of these people was former ] drummer ]. A five song demo was given to Irons to see if he would be interested in joining the band, and to distribute to anyone he felt might fit the singing bill. Irons passed on the drumming invitation, but gave the demo to his basketball buddy and local San Diego singer ] during one of their hiking trips. Vedder had been the lead vocalist for Bad Radio, a local rock group. As legend has it, Vedder listened to the tape shortly before going surfing. While he was out in the water, the music played in his head and the lyrics came to him. ]He rushed back home and in one flurry of creativity recorded the vocals to three of the songs ("]", "Once", and "Footsteps"). The songs were what Vedder would later describe as a mini-opera. They formed a story of incest, madness and murder that became known to fans as the "Mamasan trilogy". He sent the tape with his vocals back to the three Seattle musicians, who were so impressed that they had Vedder fly to Seattle to try out for the band. Vedder and the band hit it off, with Eddie even adding lead vocals to a Temple of the Dog song, "Hunger Strike". With the addition of ] on drums, Gossard, Ament, and McCready now had a complete band.


===''Ten'' and the grunge explosion (1991–1992)===
The group was known (and actually toured) for a time as ''']''', after the basketball player, but concerns about trademark issues necessitated a change after the group was signed to ]. The band eventually settled on Pearl Jam as their new name.
]''.]] ]
Pearl Jam entered Seattle's ]s in March 1991 to record its debut album '']''.<ref name="blackdays">Pearlman, Nina. "Black Days". '']''. December 2002.</ref> McCready said that "''Ten'' was mostly Stone and Jeff; Eddie and I were along for the ride at that time."<ref name="tenpast">Weisbard, Eric, et al. "Ten Past Ten". ]. August 2001.</ref> Krusen left the band in May 1991 after checking himself into rehabilitation for alcoholism;<ref>Greene, Jo-Ann. "Pearl Jam and the Secret History of Seattle Part 2". '']''. August 1993.</ref> he was replaced by ], who previously played with ]. After playing only a handful of shows, one of which was filmed for the "Alive" video, Chamberlain left to join the band for '']''.<ref name="Modern Drummer 1993">{{cite web|url=https://pearljamhistory.no.sapo.pt/PJArticles_Interviews_12-xx-93_-_modern_drummer.htm |title=Dave Abbruzzese of Pearl Jam |access-date=July 1, 2007 |author=Peiken, Matt |work=] |date=December 1993 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120629145947/http://pearljamhistory.no.sapo.pt/PJArticles_Interviews_12-xx-93_-_modern_drummer.htm |archive-date=June 29, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Chamberlain suggested ] as his replacement. Abbruzzese joined the group and played the rest of Pearl Jam's live shows supporting ''Ten''.<ref name="Modern Drummer 1993"/>


Released on August 27, 1991, ''Ten'' (named after Mookie Blaylock's jersey number)<ref name="rhrn" /> contained 11 tracks dealing with dark subjects like depression, suicide, loneliness, and murder. ''Ten''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s musical style, influenced by classic rock, combined an "expansive harmonic vocabulary" with an anthemic sound.<ref>{{cite web | url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r14978|pure_url=yes}} | title=Ten > Review | access-date=July 3, 2007 | author=Huey, Steve | website=Allmusic}}</ref> The album was slow to sell, but by the second half of 1992 it became a breakthrough success, being certified gold and reaching number two on the ''Billboard'' charts.<ref name="blackdays" /> ''Ten'' produced the hit singles "Alive", "]", and "]". Originally interpreted as an anthem by many,<ref name="crowe" /> Vedder later revealed that "Alive" tells the semi-autobiographical tale of a son discovering that his father is actually his stepfather, and his mother's grief turns her to sexually embrace her son, who strongly resembles the biological father. In this lyric, even though Vedder originally looked at "being alive as a curse", as the sadness the speaker in the song suggests, "But as fans quickly turned the title phrase into a self-empowering anthem", particularly at Pearl Jam concerts, Vedder said: "they lifted the curse. The audience changed the meaning for me", he told VH1 Storytellers in 2006.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/58253/pearl-jam-tells-its-story-at-vh1-taping|magazine=Billboard|title=Pearl Jam tells its 'story' at VH1 taping|date=June 2, 2006}}</ref>
In an early promotional interview {{fact}}Eddie Vedder claimed that the name "Pearl Jam" was a reference to his great-grandmother, Pearl, who was married to a Native American man and had a special recipe for peyote-laced jam. However, this story seems to have been invented by Vedder as a joke. Another theory put forward Kim Neely's band history ''Five Against One''<!--please cite source more specifically--> holds that one of the band members really wanted "pearl" in the new name, and ] is a common activity done by musicians. The generally-accepted explanation is that it was a phrase the band thought would sound good, so they stuck to it. In a recent cover story by Rolling Stone, Ament and McCready admitted that Ament came up with "Pearl", and "Jam" was added after the band members saw Neil Young live.{{cquote|Legend has it that Vedder wrote the lyrics to the songs in one burst, while surfing.That particular story, he tells me in his Chicago hotel room, is "100 percent true." But he concedes that another oft-told tale is less accurate: that the name Pearl Jam came from Vedder's great-grandmother Pearl, who, he used to claim, was married to an American Indian and was in the habit of making preserves spiked with various hallucinogenics. His great-grandma really was named Pearl. The rest is, indeed, "total bulllshit." Told of Vedder's admission, Ament and McCready seem relieved. They cough up the true -- if less romantic -- tale behind the band's name. Brainstorming in a Seattle restaurant to come up with something, anything, to replace their original name, Mookie Blaylock (inspired by the NBA star), Ament came up with "pearl." The band didn't settle on the second half of its name until a 1991 trip to New York to sign a deal with Epic Records. Gossard, Vedder and Ament drove out to see Neil Young play Nassau Coliseum. "He played, like, nine songs over three hours. Every song was like a fifteen- or twenty-minute jam," says Ament. "So that's how 'jam' got added on to the name. Or at least that's how I remember it."


The song "Jeremy" and its accompanying video were inspired by a true story in which a high school student shot himself in front of his classmates.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sshep.com/jeremynew.htm | title=Richardson Teen-ager Kills Himself in Front of Classmates | access-date=June 27, 2007 | author=Miller, Bobbi | work=] | date=January 8, 1991 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100201141859/http://www.sshep.com/jeremynew.htm | archive-date=February 1, 2010 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}</ref> ''Ten'' stayed on the ''Billboard'' charts for nearly five years, going ].<ref>{{cite magazine
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With the success of ''Ten'', Pearl Jam became a key member of the Seattle grunge explosion, along with ], ], and ]. The band was criticized in the music press; British music magazine '']'' wrote that Pearl Jam was "trying to steal money from young alternative kids' pockets".<ref>Gilbert, Jeff. "New Power Generation". ''Guitar World: Nirvana and the Seattle Sound''. 1993.</ref>
"The name is in reference to the pearl itself,... and the natural process from which a pearl comes from. Basically, taking excrement or waste and turning it into something beautiful."
-Eddie Vedder <ref></ref>


Pearl Jam ] relentlessly in support of ''Ten''. Ament stated that "essentially ''Ten'' was just an excuse to tour", adding: "We told the record company, 'We know we can be a great band, so let's just get the opportunity to get out and play.'"<ref>Coryat, Karl. "Godfather of the 'G' Word". ''Bass Player'' magazine. April 1994.</ref> The band's manager Kelly Curtis stated: "Once people came and saw them live, this lightbulb would go on. Doing their first tour, you kind of knew it was happening and there was no stopping it."<ref name="tenpast"/> Early on in Pearl Jam's career, the band became known for its intense live performances. Looking back at this time, Vedder said that "playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... But it didn't come from jock mentality. It came from just being let out of the gates."<ref>{{cite magazine | last = Hiatt | first = Brian | url = https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10611546/eddie_vedders_embarrassing_tale_naked_in_public/2 | title = Eddie Vedder's Embarrassing Tale: Naked in Public | magazine = Rolling Stone | date = June 20, 2006 | access-date = March 3, 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080620071621/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10611546/eddie_vedders_embarrassing_tale_naked_in_public/2 |archive-date = June 20, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>


In 1992, Pearl Jam made television appearances on ''Saturday Night Live'' and '']'' and took a slot on that summer's ] tour with ], ], and Soundgarden, among others.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Weingarten|first=Christopher R.|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/saturday-night-live-rocks-25-greatest-musical-performances-w468638/pearl-jam-april-11th-1992-w468656|title='Saturday Night Live' Rocks: 25 Greatest Musical Performances|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=March 9, 2017|access-date=May 20, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Greene|first=Andy|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/flashback-pearl-jam-play-intense-black-on-mtv-unplugged-20150305|title=Flashback: Pearl Jam Play Intense 'Black' on 'MTV Unplugged'|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=March 5, 2015|access-date=May 19, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Montgommery|first=James|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1644863/lollapalooza-lookback-1992-meet-pearl-jam/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160909120049/http://www.mtv.com/news/1644863/lollapalooza-lookback-1992-meet-pearl-jam/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 9, 2016|title=Lollapalooza Lookback 1992: Meet Pearl Jam|publisher=]|date=August 2, 2010|access-date=May 25, 2018}}</ref> The band contributed two songs to the ] of the 1992 ] film '']'': "]" and "]". Ament, Gossard and Vedder appeared in ''Singles'' under the name Citizen Dick; their parts were filmed when Pearl Jam was known as Mookie Blaylock.<ref>{{cite web|last=Kaye|first=Ben|url=https://consequence.net/2017/01/singles-soundtrack-to-receive-expanded-reissue-and-vinyl-box-set-for-25th-anniversary/|title=Singles soundtrack to receive expanded reissue and vinyl box set for 25th anniversary|work=Consequence of Sound|date=January 4, 2017|access-date=May 20, 2017}}</ref>
Pearl Jam's drummer, Dave Krusen, left the band shortly before the launch of their debut album ''Ten'' (named for ]'s jersey number). He was replaced by ], who had previously played with ]. After playing only a handful of shows&mdash;one of which was filmed for the "Alive" video&mdash;Chamberlain left to join the '']'' band. Chamberlain suggested a drummer named ] as his replacement. Abbruzzese joined the group and played the rest of Pearl Jam's live shows supporting the ] album and continued to record with the band for the next two albums.


===''Vs.'', ''Vitalogy'' and dealing with success (1993–1995)===
===1991&ndash;1995===
] in the ] in April 1994]]
] was on the cover of the October 25, 1993 issue of ] magazine, as part of the feature article discussing the rising popularity of the ] movement. Vedder has made it clear that he hates the photo and how Pearl Jam was represented in the article. {{fact}}]]
The band members grew uncomfortable with their success, with much of the burden of Pearl Jam's popularity falling on frontman Vedder.<ref name="crowe" /> While Pearl Jam received four awards at the ] for its video for "Jeremy", including ] and ], the band refused to make a video for "]" in spite of pressure from the label. This action began a trend of the band refusing to make videos for its songs. Vedder felt that the concept of music videos robbed listeners from creating their own interpretations of the song, stating that "Before music videos first came out, you'd listen to a song with headphones on, sitting in a beanbag chair with your eyes closed, and you'd come up with your own visions, these things that came from within. Then all of a sudden, sometimes even the first time you heard a song, it was with these visual images attached, and it robbed you of any form of self-expression."<ref>Neely, Kim. Five Against One: The Pearl Jam Story. "The Lost 'Jeremy' Video. pp. 109–113. New York, NY. Penguin Books.</ref> "Ten years from now", Ament said, "I don't want people to remember our songs as videos."<ref name="crowe" />
Pearl Jam became a key member of the ] ] explosion, along with ], ], and ]. Nirvana's ] angrily attacked Pearl Jam in interviews because he saw them as commercial ], although some believe that Cobain was motivated by jealousy that Pearl Jam had become more successful than Nirvana on the '']'' charts. Cobain later reconciled with Vedder and reportedly became friends. (See ]).


Pearl Jam headed into the studio in early 1993 facing the challenge of following up the commercial success of its debut. McCready said: "The band was blown up pretty big and everything was pretty crazy."<ref name="totalguitar">"Interview with Stone Gossard and Mike McCready". '']''. November 2002.</ref> Released on October 19, 1993, Pearl Jam's second album, '']'', sold 950,378 copies in its first week of release and outperformed all other entries in the ''Billboard'' top ten that week combined.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://ew.com/article/1993/11/19/pearls-jam/ | title=Pearl's Jam | access-date=August 31, 2007 | magazine=Entertainment Weekly | date=November 19, 1993 | archive-date=October 14, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014195855/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,308749,00.html | url-status=live }}</ref> The album set the record for most copies of an album sold in its first week of release, which it held until broken by ]' 1998 album '']''.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/nydn-features/cheatin-charts-timely-accounting-change-helped-brooks-double-live-smash-pearl-jam-93-record-article-1.815148| title=Your Cheatin' Charts! Timely Accounting Change Helped Brooks' ''Double Live'' Smash Pearl Jam's '93 Record| author=Farber, Jim| work=]| date=December 14, 1998| access-date=September 2, 2009}}</ref> ''Vs.'' included the singles "]", "]", "]", and "]". Paul Evans of ''Rolling Stone'' stated: "Few American bands have arrived more clearly talented than this one did with ''Ten''; and ''Vs.'' tops even that debut." He added: "Like ] and ], Vedder makes a forte of his psychological-mythic explorations... As guitarists Stone Gossard and Mike McCready paint dense and slashing backdrops, he invites us into a drama of experiment and strife."<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/pearljam/albums/album/135104/review/5945402/vs | title=Pearl Jam: ''Vs.'' | access-date=May 27, 2008 | author=Evans, Paul | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=December 23, 1993|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080514060409/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/pearljam/albums/album/135104/review/5945402/vs |archive-date = May 14, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> The band decided, beginning with the release of ''Vs.'', to scale back its commercial efforts.<ref>Ashare, Matt. "The Sweet Smell of (Moderate) Success". ]. July 2000.</ref> The members declined to produce any more music videos after the massive success of "Jeremy" and opted for fewer interviews and television appearances. Industry insiders compared Pearl Jam's tour that year to the touring habits of ] in that the band "ignored the press and took its music directly to the fans".<ref>DeRogatis, Jim. ''Milk It!: Collected Musings on the Alternative Music Explosion of the 90's''. Cambridge: Da Capo, 2003. {{ISBN|0-306-81271-1}}, p. 58.</ref> During the ], the band set a cap on ticket prices in an attempt to thwart ].<ref>DeRogatis, p. 59.</ref>
Pearl Jam's debut album ''Ten'' contains eleven tracks dealing with dark subjects like depression, suicide, loneliness, and murder. The album, released in 1991, produced three hit singles: "Even Flow", "Alive", and "]". The video for "Jeremy" was a huge hit on ] and won four ], including Video of the Year and Best Group Video.


By 1994, Pearl Jam was "fighting on all fronts" as its manager described the band at the time.<ref name="DeRogatis1">DeRogatis, p. 60.</ref> Reporter ] broke a series of stories showing that Ticketmaster was gouging Pearl Jam's customers.<ref name=Ticketmaster>{{cite book|last=Budnick; Baron|first=Dean; Josh|title=Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped|date=June 1, 2011|publisher=ECW Press|location=Toronto; Ontario; Canada|isbn=978-1-55022-949-3|page=116.123.126.143,353,354,355,356|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zRtSI84258EC&q=Ticket+Masters%3A+The+Rise+of+the+Concert+Industry+and+How+the+Public+Got+Scalped+chuck+philips&pg=RA1-PT314}}</ref> Pearl Jam was outraged when, after it played a pair of charity benefit shows in Chicago, it discovered that ticket vendor ] had added a service charge to the tickets. Pearl Jam was committed to keeping their concert ticket prices down but ] of Ticketmaster refused to waive the service charge. Because Ticketmaster controlled most major venues, the band was forced to create from scratch its own outdoor stadiums in rural areas in order to perform. Pearl Jam's efforts to organize a tour without the ticket giant collapsed, which Pearl Jam said was evidence of Ticketmaster's monopoly. An analysis of journalist Chuck Philips' investigative series<ref name="Ticketmaster 1">{{cite news|last=Philips|first=Chuck|title=Ticket Flap: What Price Convenience? : Entertainment: A host of service fees, surcharges and taxes is riling concert-goers—and lawmakers.|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-05-17-ca-2084-story.html|access-date=July 22, 2012|newspaper=LA Times|date=May 17, 1991}}</ref><ref name="Ticketmaster 2">{{cite news|last=Philips|first=chuck|title=Congress May Get Tickets Measure : Pop music: Spurred by Pearl Jam's crusade, the bill would require ticket vendors to disclose fees.|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-02-07-ca-29032-story.html|access-date=July 22, 2012|newspaper=LA Times|date=February 7, 1995}}</ref><ref name="Ticketmaster 3">{{cite news|last=Philips|first=Chuck|title=Pearl Jam, Ticketmaster and Now Congress: America's biggest band sent shock waves through the music business when it filed a complaint with the Justice Department about Ticketmaster. Now, Congress is holding a hearing. How'd it all get so far?|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-06-30-ca-10438-story.html|access-date=July 22, 2012|newspaper=LA Times|date=June 30, 1994}}</ref><ref name="Ticketmaster 4">{{cite news|last=Philips|first=Chuck|title=Pearl Jam vs. Ticketmaster: Choosing Sides : Legal file: The pop music world is divided over the Seattle band's allegations, which led to a Justice Department investigation into possible anti-competitive practices in the ticket distribution industry.|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-06-08-ca-1864-story.html|access-date=July 22, 2012|newspaper=LA Times|date=June 8, 1994}}</ref><ref name="Ticketmaster 5">{{cite news|last=Philips|first=Chuck|title=COLUMN ONE : The Ticket King's Path to Power : As Pearl Jam just learned, Ticketmaster's Fred Rosen gets what he wants. His tactics have earned him some foes, but even critics admit he has transformed the industry. Now he's eyeing new realms.|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-06-17-mn-14107-story.html|access-date=July 22, 2012|newspaper=LA Times|date=June 17, 1995}}</ref><ref name="Ticketmaster 6">{{cite news|last=Philips|first=Chuck|title=A Tangle Over Tickets : Ticketmaster, Target of Lawsuits, Says It Offers Broad Service|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-06-09-ca-136-story.html|access-date=July 22, 2012|newspaper=LA Times|date=June 9, 1992}}</ref> in a well known legal monograph<ref name="Legal Analysis of Ticketmaster as a monopoly">{{cite news|last=Finklestein and Lagan|first=Matthew Colleen|title=Title="Not for Your"; Only for Ticketmaster: Do Ticketmaster's Exclusive Agreements with Concert Venues Violate Federal AntitrustLaw?|url=http://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1417&context=jcred&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2F}}</ref> concluded that it was hard to imagine a legitimate reason for Ticketmaster's exclusive contracts with venues and contracts to cover such a lengthy period of time. The authors wrote: "The pervasiveness of Ticketmaster's exclusive agreements, coupled with their excessive duration and the manner in which they are procured, supported a finding that Ticketmaster had engaged in anticompetitive conduct under section 2 of the Sherman Act."
], their second album. (1993)]]
In 1993, Pearl Jam's second album '']'' set an all time record for copies sold in the first week of release (950,000). ''Vs.'' included the hit songs "]", "]", "Go", and "Animal". ''Vs.'' was originally titled ''Five Against One'' (taken from the lyrics of "Animal"), but was changed to ''Vs.'' shortly before release of the album. Some early pressings are labelled with the ''Five Against One'' title, and are considered to be valuable Pearl Jam memorabilia.


The ] was investigating the company's practices at the time and asked the band to create a memorandum of its experiences with the company. Band members Gossard and Ament testified at a subcommittee investigation on June 30, 1994, in Washington, D.C.<ref>Wall, Mick. "Alive". ''Nirvana and the Story of Grunge''. '']'' p. 99</ref> Pearl Jam alleged that Ticketmaster used anti-competitive and monopolistic practices to gouge fans. After Pearl Jam's testimony before Congress, ] wrote a bill requiring full disclosure to prevent Ticketmaster from burying escalating service fees. Pearl Jam's manager said he was gratified that Congress recognized the problem as a national issue.<ref name="Dingell proposal is designed to prevent such actions as this summer's attempt to bury escalating service fees in the price of tickets for a nationwide Eagles concert tour">{{cite news|last=Philips|first=Chuck|title=Company Town: Bill Would Require Ticket Fee Disclosures : Legislation: Rep. Dingell takes aim at concerns over prices customers pay to get into concerts and sporting events.| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-08-12-fi-26540-story.html|access-date=September 27, 2012|date=August 12, 1994}}</ref>
Pearl Jam's third album, '']'', was released in 1994, with a vinyl version released two weeks before the CD and cassette versions. The CD became the second quickest selling in history, with more than 877,000 units sold in its first week. The song "Spin The Black Circle", a homage to the seven-inch single, won a ] in ] for ]. ''Vitalogy'' also included the hits "Not For You", "Corduroy", "Immortality", and "]", a song originally penned and performed by Vedder while in Bad Radio.
The band eventually canceled its 1994 summer tour in protest.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://ew.com/article/1994/10/28/brawls-their-courts/ | title=The Brawls in Their Courts | access-date=September 3, 2007 | author=Gordinier, Jeff | magazine=Entertainment Weekly | date=October 28, 1994 | archive-date=November 29, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129040704/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,304203,00.html | url-status=live }}</ref> After the Justice Department dropped the case, Pearl Jam continued to boycott Ticketmaster, refusing to play venues that had contracts with the company.<ref>DeRogatis, p. 64–65.</ref> The band tried to work around Ticketmaster's exclusive contracts by hosting charities and benefits at major venues because the exclusive contracts often contained a clause allowing charity event promoters to sell their own tickets.<ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1994/12/22/pearl-jam-dodges-ticketmaster-prices/7b6d7304-6b4c-4dd8-be4a-32eacf3bf082/ |title = Pearl Jam Dodges Ticketmaster Prices|last = Philips|first = Chuck|date = December 22, 1994 |newspaper = The Washington Post|access-date = February 15, 2016}}</ref> Music critic ] noted that, along with the Ticketmaster debacle, "the band has refused to release singles or make videos; it has demanded that its albums be released on ]; and it wants to be more like its 1960s heroes, ], releasing two or three albums a year". He also stated that sources said that most of the band's third album '']'' was completed by early 1994, but that either a forced delay by Epic or the battle with Ticketmaster was to blame for the delay.<ref name="DeRogatis1"/>


Pearl Jam wrote and recorded while touring behind ''Vs.'' and the majority of the tracks for ''Vitalogy'' were recorded during breaks on the tour. Tensions within the band had increased by this time. Producer ] said: "''Vitalogy'' was a little strained. I'm being polite—there was some imploding going on."<ref name="tenpast"/><ref name=fiveH>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/articles/spin801.shtml|title=Five Horizons: Articles, Spin Online, August 2001: Ten Past Ten|website=www.fivehorizons.com}}</ref> After Pearl Jam finished the recording of ''Vitalogy'', drummer Dave Abbruzzese was fired. The band cited political differences between Abbruzzese and the other members; for example, Abbruzzese disagreed with the Ticketmaster boycott.<ref name="tenpast"/><ref name="fiveH"/> He was replaced by ], who had connected Vedder to the rest of the band some four years prior. Irons made his debut with the band at Neil Young's 1994 ], but he was not announced as the band's new drummer until its 1995 ''Self-Pollution'' satellite radio broadcast, a four-and-a-half-hour-long pirate broadcast out of Seattle which was available to any radio stations that wanted to carry it.<ref>Jack, Beaver. "Radio Free Vedder". ''Rolling Stone''. February 23, 1995.</ref>
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In 1994, Pearl Jam fired Dave Abbruzzese "due to artistic differences" according to the band. They announced his replacement in 1995: ], close friend of Vedder and the former drummer of the ] who had originally introduced Vedder to the band.


''Vitalogy'' was released first on November 21, 1994, on vinyl and then two weeks later on December 6, 1994, on CD and cassette. The CD became the second-fastest-selling in history, with more than 877,000 units sold in its first week.<ref name="timeline"/> ] of AllMusic stated that "thanks to its stripped-down, lean production, ''Vitalogy'' stands as Pearl Jam's most original and uncompromising album".<ref>{{cite web | last = Erlewine | first = Stephen Thomas | author-link= Stephen Thomas Erlewine | url = {{AllMusic|class=album|id=r207150|pure_url=yes}} | title = ''Vitalogy'' > Review | work = Allmusic | access-date = April 29, 2007}}</ref> Many of the songs on the album appear to be inspired by the pressures of fame.<ref>Weisel, Al. "Pearl Jam: Vitalogy". ''Rolling Stone''. December 15, 1994. p. 91–92.</ref> The song "]", an homage to vinyl records, won a ] in 1996 for ]. ''Vitalogy'' also included the songs "]", "]", "]", and "]". "Better Man" ({{Audio-nohelp|Better Man.ogg|sample}}), a song originally written and performed by Vedder while in Bad Radio, reached number one on the ''Billboard'' Mainstream Rock chart, spending a total of eight weeks there. Considered a "blatantly great pop song" by producer Brendan O'Brien, Pearl Jam was reluctant to record it and initially rejected it from ''Vs.'' due to its accessibility.<ref name="tenpast" /><ref name="fiveH"/>
In 1995, Pearl Jam backed longtime idol ] on his album '']''. Contractual obligations prevented the use of the band's name anywhere on the album, but the members were all credited individually in the album's liner notes. Also, two songs from the sessions were left off Mirror Ball - "I Got Id" and "Long Road". These two tracks were released separately by Pearl Jam in the form of the EP "Merkin Ball". This EP is considered the official companion to Young's '']''.


The band continued its boycott against Ticketmaster during its ] for ''Vitalogy'', but was surprised that virtually no other bands joined.<ref>DeRogatis, p. 64.</ref> Pearl Jam's initiative to play only at non-Ticketmaster venues effectively, with a few exceptions, prevented it from playing shows in the United States for the next three years.<ref>DeRogatis, p. 65.</ref> Ament later said: "We were so hardheaded about the 1995 tour. Had to prove we could tour on our own, and it pretty much killed us, killed our career."<ref name="tenpast" /><ref name="fiveH"/> In the same year, Pearl Jam backed ], whom the band had noted as an influence, on his album '']''. Contractual obligations prevented the use of the band's name anywhere on the album, but the members were all credited individually in the album's liner notes.<ref name="Erlewine"/> Two songs from the sessions were left off ''Mirror Ball'': "]" and "Long Road". These two tracks were released separately by Pearl Jam in the form of the 1995 EP '']''.
===1996&ndash;2002===
Pearl Jam's popularity began to decline over the next few years, partially because of their decision not to produce music videos and partially because an (ultimately unsuccessful) ] lawsuit against ] <ref>
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===''No Code'' and ''Yield'' (1996–1999)===
On ], ], exactly five years after the release of ''Ten'', Pearl Jam released their fourth album. Although the album debuted at #1, it quickly fell down the charts. '']'' included the singles "Hail, Hail", "Who You Are", and "Off He Goes". Although it marked a sales fall-off, ''No Code'' is a favorite of hard-core fans of the band. It also stood out with its emphasis on subtle harmony ("Off He Goes"), eastern influences ("Who You Are"), and spoken word ("I'm Open").
] performing in ] in September 1998]]
Following the round of touring for ''Vitalogy'', the band went into the studio to record '']''. Vedder said: "Making ''No Code'' was all about gaining perspective."<ref name="spin">Marks, Craig. "The Road Less Traveled". '']''. February 1997.</ref> Released in 1996, ''No Code'' was seen as a deliberate break from the band's sound since ''Ten'',<ref>{{cite web | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806E4DB1430F936A1575BC0A960958260 | title=Pearl Jam Is Tired of the Pearl Jam Sound | access-date=June 27, 2007 | author=Pareles, Jon | work=The New York Times | date=August 25, 1996}}</ref> favoring ] ballads and noisy ]ers. David Browne of '']'' stated that "''No Code'' displays a wider range of moods and instrumentation than on any previous Pearl Jam album."<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://ew.com/article/1996/08/23/no-code/ | title=Northwest Passage | access-date=May 28, 2008 | author=Browne, David | magazine=Entertainment Weekly | date=August 23, 1996}}</ref> The lyrical themes on the album deal with issues of self-examination,<ref name="wayout">Hilburn, Robert. "Working Their Way Out of a Jam". ''Los Angeles Times''. December 22, 1996.</ref> with Ament stating: "In some ways, it's like the band's story. It's about growing up."<ref name="wayout"/> Although the album debuted at number one on the ''Billboard'' charts, it quickly fell down the charts. ''No Code'' included the singles "]" ({{Audio|Who You Are.ogg|sample}}), "]", and "]". As with ''Vitalogy'', very little touring was done to promote ''No Code'' because of the band's refusal to play in Ticketmaster's venue areas. A ] took place in the fall of 1996. Gossard stated that there was "a lot of stress associated with trying to tour at that time" and that "it was growing more and more difficult to be excited about being part of the band".<ref name=tenpast /><ref name="fiveH"/>


Following the short tour for ''No Code'', the band went into the studio in 1997 to record its follow-up. The sessions for the band's fifth album represented more of a team effort among all members of the group, with Ament stating that "everybody really got a little bit of their say on the record... because of that, everybody feels like they're an integral part of the band".<ref>. ]. February 4, 1998.</ref> On February 3, 1998, Pearl Jam released '']''. The album was cited as a return to the band's early, straightforward rock sound.<ref name="allmusicyield">{{cite web | url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r333026|pure_url=yes}} | title=''Yield'' > Review | access-date=July 1, 2007 | author=Erlewine, Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine | website=Allmusic}}</ref> Tom Sinclair of ''Entertainment Weekly'' stated that the band has "turned in an intermittently affecting album that veers between fiery garage rock and rootsy, acoustic-based ruminations. Perhaps mindful of their position as the last alt-rock ambassadors with any degree of clout, they've come up with their most cohesive album since their 1991 debut, ''Ten''."<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,281804,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070326060819/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,281804,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=March 26, 2007 | title=Last Band Standing | access-date=May 28, 2008 | author=Sinclair, Tom | magazine=Entertainment Weekly | date=February 6, 1998}}</ref> Lyrically, ''Yield'' continued with the more contemplative type of writing found on ''No Code'',<ref name="Mulvey">Mulvey, John. "Interview with Pearl Jam". '']''. May 13, 2000.</ref> with Vedder saying: "What was rage in the past has become reflection."<ref>"Tentaciones". '']''. February 13, 1998.</ref> ''Yield'' debuted at number two on the ''Billboard'' charts, but like ''No Code'' soon began dropping down the charts.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/1998-05-23/billboard-200 | title=The Billboard 200 – Yield | access-date=July 1, 2007 | magazine=Billboard|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070926212501/http://www.billboard.com/charts/1998-05-23/billboard-200 |archive-date = September 26, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> It included the singles "]" and "]". The band hired comic book artist ] to create an animated video for the song "]" from the album, its first music video since 1992.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.epochinkanimation.com/mvs.html |title=Music Videos & Shorts |publisher=Epoch Ink Animation |access-date=September 6, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130903032234/http://epochinkanimation.com/mvs.html |archive-date=September 3, 2013 }}</ref> A documentary detailing the making of ''Yield'', '']'', was released on VHS and DVD later that year.
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In ], Pearl Jam released its fifth album, '']''. The album was proclaimed as a return to the band's early, straightforward rock sound, but was Pearl Jam's first album not to peak at #1 in the Billboard charts since ''Ten'' in 1991. ''Yield'' debuted at #2, but like ''No Code'' soon began dropping down the charts. However, the album did go ] in the US, selling 1,500,000 copies. For the first time since ], Pearl Jam released a music video. The band hired famed comic book artist ] to create an animated video for their single "]". ''Yield'' also included the singles "Given to Fly" and "Wishlist".


In April 1998, Pearl Jam again changed drummers. Jack Irons left the band due to dissatisfaction with touring and was replaced with former Soundgarden drummer ] on a temporary basis,<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/pearljam/articles/story/5928493/off_he_goes | title=Off He Goes | access-date=June 28, 2007 | author=Fischer, Blair R | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=April 17, 1998|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071002115935/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/pearljam/articles/story/5928493/off_he_goes |archive-date = October 2, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> but he soon became a permanent replacement for Irons. Pearl Jam's 1998 ] in North America marked the band's return to full-scale touring. The band's ] lawsuit against Ticketmaster had proven to be unsuccessful and hindered live tours. Many fans had complained about the difficulty in obtaining tickets and the use of non-Ticketmaster venues, which were judged to be out-of-the-way and impersonal. For this tour and future tours, Pearl Jam again began using Ticketmaster in order to "better accommodate concertgoers".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://uk.eonline.com/uberblog/b35954_pearl_jam_yields_ticketmaster.html | title=Pearl Jam Yields to Ticketmaster | access-date=June 27, 2007 | author=Symonds, Jeff | publisher=] | date=February 14, 1998}}</ref> The 1998 summer tour was a big success,<ref>Hinckley, David. "Vedder's Not Finished". '']''. August 10, 1999.</ref> and after it was completed the band released '']'', a live album which featured select performances from the tour.
The same year, Pearl Jam once again changed drummers. ] left the band due to health problems and was replaced with former ] drummer Matt Cameron, who has remained with them since. Gossard, Ament, and McCready had worked with both Cameron and former ] (and current ]) vocalist ] on the ] album prior to the release of ''Ten''.


In ], Pearl Jam recorded the song "Last Kiss", a cover of a ] ballad by ], made famous in 1964 by ]. Recorded on a minimal budget and released first as a ] single, the song became a smash hit, with many requests from its fans to be released to the general public as a single. The band decided to include the song on a charity compilation album, '']''. "Last Kiss" peaked at #2 in the ''Billboard'' charts and became the band's most commercially-successful single to date. In 1998, Pearl Jam recorded "]", a cover of a 1960s ballad made famous by ]. It was recorded during a soundcheck and released on the band's 1998 fan club Christmas single. The following year, the cover was put into heavy rotation across the country. By popular demand, the cover was released to the public as a single in 1999, with all of the proceeds going to the aid of refugees of the ].<ref name="timeline"/> The band also decided to include the song on the 1999 charity compilation album, '']''. "Last Kiss" peaked at number two on the ''Billboard'' charts and became the band's highest-charting single.


===''Binaural'' and the Roskilde tragedy (2000–2001)===
On ], ], Pearl Jam released their sixth studio album '']''. This was the first studio album with Matt Cameron. ''Binaural'' included the singles "Nothing As it Seems" and "Light Years". While touring to support ''Binaural'', Pearl Jam hit upon a unique idea. Noting the popularity of illegal ]s and the desire of fans to own a copy of the shows they attended, Pearl Jam decided to professionally record each and every show on their tour in addition to allowing fans to make amateur recordings openly<ref></ref> They originally intended to release these ] only to fan club members, but their record contract prevented them from doing so. Pearl Jam released all of the albums in record stores as well as through their fan club. They released 72 live albums, most of them double CD sets, and set a record for most albums to debut in the ''Billboard'' Top 200 at the same time. A further 72 albums were released from the ] tour, and Pearl Jam continued releasing more of their "bootlegs" on subsequent tours, although they pared down the number of concerts offered considerably.
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Following its full-scale tour in support of ''Yield'', the band took a short break, but then reconvened toward the end of 1999 and commenced work on a new album. On May 16, 2000, Pearl Jam released its sixth studio album, '']''. It was drummer Matt Cameron's studio recording debut with the band. The title is a reference to the ] techniques that were utilized on several tracks by producer ], known for his use of the technique.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.pearljam.netmark.pl/newsy/spi.txt | title=Pearl Jam's 'Binaural' ear-marked by unusual sound mixing | access-date=June 28, 2007 | author=Stout, Gene | work=] | date=May 16, 2000}}</ref> ''Binaural'' was the first album since the band's debut not produced by Brendan O'Brien, although O'Brien was called in later to remix several tracks. Gossard stated that the band members "were ready for a change".<ref name="totalguitar"/> Jon Pareles of ''Rolling Stone'' wrote: "Apparently as tired of grunge as everyone except ] fans, Pearl Jam delve elsewhere." He added: "The album reflects both Pearl Jam's longstanding curse of self-importance and a renewed willingness to be experimental or just plain odd."<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/pearljam/albums/album/94578/review/5941143/binaural | title=Pearl Jam: ''Binaural'' | access-date=May 28, 2008 | author=Pareles, Jon | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=June 8, 2000|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071014061107/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/pearljam/albums/album/94578/review/5941143/binaural |archive-date = October 14, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> The album is lyrically darker than the band's previous album ''Yield'', with Gossard describing the lyrics as "pretty sombre".<ref name="Mulvey"/> ''Binaural'' included the singles "]", one of the songs featuring binaural recording, and "]". The album sold just over 700,000 copies and became the first Pearl Jam studio album to fail to reach platinum status.<ref>{{cite web | last = Gundersen | first = Edna | url = https://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2002-12-05-pearl-jam_x.htm | title = ''Riot Act'' finds Pearl Jam in a quiet place |work=USA Today | access-date = March 16, 2008 | date=December 5, 2002}}</ref>


Pearl Jam decided to record every show on its 2000 ] professionally, after noting the desire of fans to own a copy of the shows they attended and the popularity of ]s. The band had been open in the past about allowing fans to make amateur recordings,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/PearlJam/tour/taping.html | title=Taping/Camera Policy Guidelines | access-date=June 28, 2007 | publisher=Sonymusic.com | date=May 27, 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070603093430/http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/PearlJam/tour/taping.html |archive-date = June 3, 2007}}</ref> and these ] were an attempt to provide a more affordable and better quality product for fans.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/music/music255.htm | title=Pearl Jam's Bootlegs Give Others the Boot | access-date=June 28, 2007 | author=Gundersen, Edna | work=USA Today | date=August 31, 2000 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061209130029/http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/music255.htm | archive-date=December 9, 2006 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> Pearl Jam originally intended to release them to only fan club members, but the band's record contract prevented it from doing so. Pearl Jam released all of the albums in record stores as well as through its fan club. The band released 72 live albums in 2000 and 2001, and twice set a record for most albums to debut in the ''Billboard'' 200 at the same time.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IBAEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22pearl+jam%22+%22billboard+200%22+debut&pg=PA122 |title=Five Live Sets Drive Pearl Jam Home |last=Bronson |first=Fred |date=October 14, 2000 |magazine=] |page=122 |access-date=January 11, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uBMEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22pearl+jam%22+%22billboard+200%22+debut&pg=PA14 |title=Pearl Jam Delivers Its Own Bootlegs |last=Cohen |first=Jonathan |date=April 7, 2001 |magazine=] |pages=12, 14 |access-date=January 11, 2014}}</ref>
Pearl Jam's 2000 European tour ended in tragedy on ], with an accident at the ] in ]. Fans were crushed and suffocated as the crowd rushed to the front. The band stopped playing and tried to calm the crowd when they realized what was happening, but it was already too late. Nine people were killed. The two remaining dates of the tour were cancelled, and the band seriously considered retiring after this event. Pearl Jam was initially blamed for the accident, but the band was later cleared of responsibility when officials found that the safety measures employed by the festival organizers were inadequate.


Pearl Jam's 2000 European tour ended in tragedy on June 30, with ] at the ] in Denmark. Nine fans were crushed underfoot and suffocated as the crowd rushed to the front. After numerous requests for the crowd to step back, the band stopped playing and tried to calm the crowd when the musicians realized what was happening, but it was already too late. The two remaining dates of the tour were canceled and members of the band contemplated retiring after this event.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-64953416.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125030144/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-64953416.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=January 25, 2013 | title=Pearl Jam's darkest hour: Seattle band thought about quitting after concert deaths | access-date=August 14, 2012 | author=Stout, Gene | work=] | date=September 1, 2000}}</ref>
A few months after the European tour, the band embarked on their two-leg 2000 North American tour. The song "Alive" was purposely omitted from all shows on this tour until the ] in Seattle, Washington. The band performed for over three hours, playing most of their hits along with selected cover songs such as "]" and "]" by ], one of Pearl Jam's biggest musical influences.


A month after the European tour concluded, the band embarked on its two-leg 2000 North American tour. On performing after the Roskilde tragedy, Vedder said that "playing, facing crowds, being together—it enabled us to start processing it".<ref name="tenpast" /><ref name="fiveH"/> On October 22, 2000, the band played the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, celebrating the tenth anniversary of its first live performance as a band. Vedder took the opportunity to thank the many people who had helped the band come together and make it to ten years. He noted that "I would never do this accepting a Grammy or something."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.fivehorizons.com/tour/cc/t2000p3.shtml | title=Pearl Jam: 2000 Concert Chronology Part 3 | access-date=July 1, 2007 | publisher=Fivehorizons.com}}</ref> After concluding the Binaural Tour, the band released '']'' the following year. The DVD featured select performances from the North American legs of the tour.
On ], ] ] of Alice In Chains died of a ] and ] overdose. Upon hearing the news on ], 2002, Eddie Vedder wrote a song dedicated to him titled, "4/20/02".


Following the events of the ], Vedder and McCready were joined by ] to perform the song "Long Road" from the EP ''Merkin Ball'' at the '']'' benefit concert. The concert, which aired on September 21, 2001, raised money for the victims and their families.
] On ], 2002, Pearl Jam released their seventh album, '']'' which included the singles "I Am Mine" and "Save You". The album sold only 500,000 copies, less than ''Vitalogy'' and ''Vs.'' sold in their first weeks. The album featured a much more ]-based and experimental sound, evident in the presence of keyboard player and un-official band member Boom Gaspar on songs such as "Love Boat Captain." The track entitled "Arc" was recorded as a vocal tribute to the nine people who died at the Roskilde Festival in June 2000. Eddie only performed this song nine times on Pearl Jam's 2003 tour and left the track off of all released bootlegs as an act of respect. The band's liberal ] also made its way into the album's lyrical content with "bu$hleaguer", a commentary on ] ]. At many shows during their 2003 North American tour, Vedder performed Bu$hleaguer with a rubber mask of Bush, wearing it at the beginning of the song and then typically hanging it on a mike stand to allow him to sing.


===''Riot Act'' (2002–2005)===
===2003&ndash;2005===
Pearl Jam commenced work on a new album following a year-long break after its full-scale tour in support of ''Binaural''. McCready described the recording environment as "a pretty positive one" and "very intense and spiritual".<ref>Stout, Gene. . '']''. November 12, 2002.</ref> Regarding the time period when the lyrics were being written, Vedder said: "There's been a lot of mortality... It's a weird time to be writing. Roskilde changed the shape of us as people, and our filter for seeing the world changed."<ref>Associated Press. . '']''. November 28, 2002.</ref> Pearl Jam released '']'' on November 12, 2002. It included the singles "]" and "]". The album featured a much more ]-based and experimental sound, evident in the presence of ] organist ] on songs such as "]". ] of AllMusic wrote: "''Riot Act'' is the album that Pearl Jam has been wanting to make since ''Vitalogy''—a muscular ] record, one that still hits hard but that is filled with ragged edges and odd detours."<ref>{{cite web | url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r611292|pure_url=yes}} | title=''Riot Act'' > Review | author=Erlewine, Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine | website=Allmusic | access-date=April 29, 2007}}</ref> The track titled "Arc" was recorded as a vocal tribute to the nine people who died at the Roskilde Festival in June 2000. Vedder only performed this song nine times on the 2003 tour, and the band left the track off all released bootlegs.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.fivehorizons.com/tour/cc/t2003p3.shtml | title=Pearl Jam: 2003 Concert Chronology Part 3 | access-date=July 1, 2007 | publisher=Fivehorizons.com}}</ref>
The beginning of 2003 included a large Australian and American tour. Of particular note was the three-day set of Boston shows in 2003, in which Pearl Jam played a completely different set list each night, covering some eighty-six songs with only one repeat between the three shows, namely the popular concert-ending ''Yellow Ledbetter'', and even that was merely because fans were shouting for it at the end of the third night.


In 2003, the band embarked on its ], which included tours in Australia and North America. The band continued its official bootleg program, making every concert from the tour available in CD form through its official website. A total of six bootlegs were made available in record stores: Perth, Western Australia; Tokyo; State College, Pennsylvania; two shows from Madison Square Garden; and Mansfield, Massachusetts. At many shows during the 2003 North American tour, Vedder performed ''Riot Act'''s "Bu$hleaguer", a commentary on President ], with a rubber mask of Bush, wearing it at the beginning of the song and then hanging it on a mic stand to allow him to sing. The band made news when it was reported that several fans left after Vedder had "impaled" the Bush mask on his mic stand at the band's show in Denver, Colorado.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2916155.stm | title=Pearl Jam Bush Stunt Angers Fans | access-date=July 1, 2007 | publisher=] | date=April 4, 2003}}</ref>
In June ], the band announced they were officially leaving their label of twelve years, ], a ] imprint. Pearl Jam stated that the group has "no interest at this time" of signing with another label and was "excited about '''MICHAEL''' our freedom". Pearl Jam's newest studio album, '']'', was released in May ], on the ] label which is part of the ] music conglomerate, which is 50% owned by Sony and includes Epic Records. This gives weight to accusations that international artists at least can never really escape the "big four" record companies (], ], ] and ]).


In June 2003, Pearl Jam announced it was leaving Epic Records following the end of its contract with the label. The band stated it had "no interest" in signing with another label.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://msl1.mit.edu/furdlog/docs/2003-06-06_msnbc_pearl_jam.pdf | title=The music biz in a Pearl Jam | access-date=July 2, 2007 | author=Olsen, Eric | publisher=] | date=June 5, 2003 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130405021624/http://msl1.mit.edu/furdlog/docs/2003-06-06_msnbc_pearl_jam.pdf | archive-date=April 5, 2013 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}</ref> The band's first release without a label was the single for "]", in partnership with Amazon.com.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=478580&highlight= | title=Pearl Jam Joins Amazon.com's Advantage Program to Sell Music Directly to Fans | access-date=July 2, 2007 | publisher=Amazon.com | date=December 17, 2003 | archive-date=June 28, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150628170706/http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=478580&highlight= | url-status=dead }}</ref> Director ] approached Pearl Jam to request an original song for the soundtrack of his film '']''. After screening an early print of the film, Pearl Jam recorded the song for him. "Man of the Hour", which was later nominated for a ], can be heard in the closing credits of ''Big Fish''.
2003 also saw the release of a two-disc collection of rarities and b-sides, ]. In ] Sony released ''Rearviewmirror'', a Pearl Jam greatest hits collection spanning 1991-2003.


The band released '']'', a two-disc collection of rarities and ], and '']'', a DVD featuring the band's July 8, 2003 ] at Madison Square Garden through Epic Records in November 2003. In 2004, Pearl Jam released the live album '']'' through a one-album deal with ].<ref>{{cite magazine | url=http://www.chartattack.com/news/2004/06/16/pearl-jam-plug-an-acoustic-set-into-your-stereo/ | title=Pearl Jam Plug An Acoustic Set Into Your Stereo | access-date=July 2, 2007 | author=Missio, David | magazine=] | date=June 14, 2004 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812102216/http://www.chartattack.com/news/2004/06/16/pearl-jam-plug-an-acoustic-set-into-your-stereo/ | archive-date=August 12, 2014 | url-status=usurped | df=mdy-all }}</ref> 2004 marked the first time that Pearl Jam licensed a song for usage in a television show; a snippet of the song "]" was used in the ] of the television series '']''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.today.com/popculture/pearl-jam-helps-bid-adieu-friends-wbna4955410 | title=Pearl Jam helps bid adieu to 'Friends' | access-date=July 5, 2007 | author=Cohen, Jonathan | publisher=Today.com | date=May 11, 2004}}</ref> Later that year, Epic released '']'', a greatest-hits collection spanning 1991 to 2003. This release marked the end of Pearl Jam's contractual agreement with Epic Records.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/PearlJam/rumorpit/pit59.html |title=Pearl Jam Rumor Pit Issue No.&nbsp;59 |publisher=sonymusic.com |access-date=April 29, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080411075938/http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/PearlJam/rumorpit/pit59.html |archive-date = April 11, 2008}}</ref>
Director ] approached Pearl Jam to request an original song for the soundtrack of his new film, ]. After screening an early print of the film Pearl Jam recorded the song ] for Burton. "Man of the Hour" can be heard in the closing credits of the 2003 film, and was nominated for a Golden Globe award that year.


Pearl Jam played a show at Easy Street Records in Seattle in April 2005; recordings from the show were compiled for the album '']'' and released exclusively to independent record stores in June 2006. The band embarked on a Canadian ] in September 2005, kicking off the tour with a fundraising concert in Missoula, Montana for Democratic politician ] and playing ]. After touring Canada, Pearl Jam proceeded to open a ] concert in Pittsburgh, then played two shows at the ] casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, then closed the tour with a concert in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The official bootlegs for the band's 2005 shows were distributed via Pearl Jam's official website in MP3 form. Pearl Jam also played a benefit concert to raise money for ] relief on October 5, 2005, at the ] in Chicago. On November 22, 2005, Pearl Jam began its first Latin American tour.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://new.music.yahoo.com/eddie-vedder/news/rock-veterans-pearl-jam-rock-brazil--26558382 |title=Rock veterans Pearl Jam rock Brazil |access-date=July 2, 2007 |agency=Reuters |work=Yahoo! News |date=December 4, 2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120708211331/http://music.yahoo.com/eddie-vedder/news/rock-veterans-pearl-jam-rock-brazil--26558382 |archive-date=July 8, 2012 }}</ref>
Pearl Jam had supported ]'s presidential campaign in ], but during the ] campaign Pearl Jam members appeared in '']'' to promote the candidacy of ]. Pearl Jam also performed on the ] tour.


===Move to J Records and ''Pearl Jam'' (2006–2008)===
In ], the band embarked on a ] cross-country tour, stopping in cities such as ], ], ], and ], where they had never played before. The official "bootlegs" for these shows were made available online through Pearl Jam's website. The music downloads were accompanied by pictures from individual shows.
] in ], Italy in September 2006]]
The work for Pearl Jam's follow-up to ''Riot Act'' began after its appearance on the 2004 ] tour. The time period between the two albums was the longest gap between Pearl Jam's studio albums to date and the new album was its first release for a new label. ] announced in February 2006 that Pearl Jam had signed with his label ], which like Epic, is part of ] (then known as ]), though J has since folded into ].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0602/09/sbt.01.html | title=Showbiz Tonight | access-date=September 3, 2007 | publisher=CNN |date=February 9, 2006}}</ref> The album '']'' was released on May 2, 2006. A number of critics cited ''Pearl Jam'' as a return to the band's early sound,<ref name="PearlJamreview">{{cite web | url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r831300|pure_url=yes}} | title=''Pearl Jam'' > Review | access-date=May 29, 2007 | author=Erlewine, Stephen Thomas | author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine | website=Allmusic}}</ref><ref name="Easley">{{cite web | url=http://www.prefixmag.com/reviews/cds/P/Pearl-Jam/Pearl-Jam/2154 | title=Pearl Jam | access-date=July 1, 2007 | author=Easley, Jonathan | publisher=Prefix Magazine | date = May 3, 2006}}</ref> and McCready compared the material to '']'' in a 2005 interview.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.andysavage.com/audio.asp |title=Mike McCready on Andy Savage in the Morning on 96.5 K-ROCK |access-date=July 1, 2007 |author=McCready, Mike |publisher=96.5 K-ROCK, Seattle, Washington |date=April 6, 2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070619221939/http://www.andysavage.com/audio.asp |archive-date=June 19, 2007 }}</ref> Ament said: "The band playing in a room—that came across. There's a kind of immediacy to the record, and that's what we were going for."<ref>Porosky, Pamela. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080313232435/http://www.bassplayer.com/article/pearl-jams-pop/jul-06/21378 |date=March 13, 2008 }}. ''Bass Player''. July 2006.</ref> Chris Willman of ''Entertainment Weekly'' wrote that "in a world full of boys sent to do a man's job of rocking, Pearl Jam can still pull off gravitas".<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://ew.com/article/2006/04/24/pearl-jam/ | title=''Pearl Jam'' | author= Willman, Chris | magazine=Entertainment Weekly | access-date=April 29, 2007 | date=April 21, 2006}}</ref> Current socio-political issues in the United States are addressed on the album. "]", a song criticizing the ] and U.S. foreign policy, was released as a single and topped the ] chart; it was Pearl Jam's first number one on that chart since "]" in 1996, and first number one on any chart in the United States since 1998 when "]" reached number one on the ] chart. ''Pearl Jam'' also included the singles "]" and "]".


To support ''Pearl Jam'', the band embarked on its ]. It toured North America, Australia and notably Europe; Pearl Jam had not toured the continent for six years. The North American tour included three two-night stands opening for ].<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10025035/tom_petty_readies_summer_tour | title=Tom Petty Readies Summer Tour | access-date=July 22, 2009 | author=Rogulewski, Charley | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=April 20, 2006|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070602102253/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10025035/tom_petty_readies_summer_tour |archive-date = June 2, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> The band served as the headliners for the ] and ] festivals, despite having vowed to never play at a festival again after ]. Vedder started both concerts with an emotional plea to the crowd to look after each other. He commented during the Leeds set that the band's decision to play a festival for the first time after Roskilde had nothing to do with "guts" but with trust in the audience.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,1859687,00.html | title=Leeds Festival | access-date=July 1, 2007 | author=Simpson, Dave. |work=The Guardian | date=August 28, 2006}}</ref>
Pearl Jam also played a ] to raise money for ] relief. The concert, which took place ], 2005, at the ] in ], ], also featured ] of ] fame.


In 2007, Pearl Jam recorded a cover of the Who's "]" for the film '']''; it was later made available as a music download on the iTunes Music Store.<ref name="billboardbits">{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/56460/billboard-bits-pearl-jam-mariah-carey-trick-pony | title=Billboard Bits: Pearl Jam, Mariah Carey, Trick Pony | access-date=July 1, 2007 | author=Cohen, Jonathan | magazine=Billboard | date=December 12, 2006}}</ref> The band embarked on a ], and headlined ] in Grant Park, Chicago on August 5, 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pearljam.com/news/index.php?what=News#173 |title=Pearl Jam To Headline Lollapalooza |access-date=July 1, 2007 |publisher=Pearljam.com |date=April 2, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070707041611/http://pearljam.com/news/index.php?what=News |archive-date=July 7, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The band released a CD box set in June 2007, titled '']'', that documents its shows at ],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pearljam.com/news/index.php?what=News#178 |title=Pre-order "Live at the Gorge 05/06 |access-date=July 1, 2007 |publisher=Pearljam.com |date=May 1, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070707041611/http://pearljam.com/news/index.php?what=News |archive-date=July 7, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and in September 2007 a concert DVD, titled '']'', which documents the band's Italian shows from its 2006 tour was released.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pearljam.com/news/index.php?what=News#194 |title=PJ To Release Italy DVD September 25 |access-date=July 27, 2007 |publisher=Pearljam.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070718153005/http://pearljam.com/news/index.php?what=News |archive-date=July 18, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
On ], 2005 Pearl Jam kicked off their first ]n tour, beginning with two shows in ], ], two in ], ], five in ] (], ], two shows in ], and ]) and three in ] (] and two shows in ]). ], one of the few other remaining bands of the Seattle grunge era, opened for Pearl Jam throughout this tour. During the tour, Vedder emphasized how much he missed ], his friend and guitarist of ] who died in ]. As a tribute to Johnny, the band played the Ramones' song "I Believe In Miracles" at every show on the tour, including a performance with ] behind the drum kit at the Porto Alegre show.


In June 2008, Pearl Jam performed as the headline act at the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pearljam.com/news/index.php?what=News#241 |title=Pearl Jam to Play Bonnaroo! |access-date=February 6, 2008 |publisher=Pearljam.com |date=February 5, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080206143337/http://pearljam.com/news/index.php?what=News |archive-date=February 6, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Bonnaroo appearance took place amidst a ] in the Eastern United States.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://pearljam.com/tour/ | title=Pearl Jam: Tour Dates | access-date=April 4, 2008 | publisher=Pearljam.com}}</ref> In July 2008, the band performed at the VH1 tribute to the Who with ], ] and ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Incubus Performs on VH1's Rock Honors: The Who Show|url=http://blog.vh1.com/2008-06-13/incubus-celebrates-the-who-on-rock-honors/|work=VH1 Blog|date=June 13, 2008|access-date=June 18, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080614125311/http://blog.vh1.com/2008-06-13/incubus-celebrates-the-who-on-rock-honors/|archive-date=June 14, 2008}}</ref> In the days prior to ], Pearl Jam digitally released through its official website a free documentary film, titled '']'', which follows the band's time spent on the 2004 Vote for Change tour.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pearljam.com/news/index.php?what=News#283 |title=Pearl Jam: Vote for Change? 2004 Tour Film&nbsp;– Documentary Coming Soon! Host an Election-Eve Screening in Your Town |access-date=October 25, 2008 |publisher=Pearljam.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080223224959/http://pearljam.com/news/index.php?what=News |archive-date=February 23, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
===2006 and beyond===
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Pearl Jam's eighth studio album '']'' hit the stores on ], ]. The album includes such songs as "Comatose", "Life Wasted", "Come Back", "Gone", "Army Reserve", and "World Wide Suicide". "Comatose" (originally titled "Crapshoot Rapture") was premiered live in concert in March 2005, and Gone was debuted in a solo performance by Eddie Vedder at a Pearl Jam concert in October 2005. European fans had a special treat on April 20, as Pearl Jam played a small show at the ], debuting live performances of "Marker in the Sand" and "Army Reserve," along with a few others that had already made appearances. Vedder has made previous statements that he wants the fans to hear the songs on the album first. In many instances, the members of Pearl Jam have revealed that they regard this as their best work to date, as it resembles the raw energy of their first albums.


===Reissues and ''Backspacer'' (2009–2012)===
"]" is the first single from the album. In late February, the band made a 15-second clip of the song available on the Internet, which was then played on numerous North American radio stations. The snippet revealed a hard-rocking sound with a noted return to the dominant vocal styles of Vedder's earlier work. Many claim the song is reminiscent of ], as also mentioned by Mike McCready in 2005 {{cite needed}}. On ], 2006, the single was played on Seattle's ] and soon ] on the Internet. Pearl Jam then early-released the single online two days later.
In March 2009, ''Ten'' was reissued in four editions, featuring such extras as a remastering and remix of the entire album by Brendan O'Brien, a DVD of the band's 1992 appearance on ''MTV Unplugged'', and an LP of its concert of September 20, 1992 at Magnuson Park in Seattle.<ref name="reissue">{{cite web | url=http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/earcandy/archives/156610.asp | title=Pearl Jam's ''Ten'' gets the deluxe treatment with four reissues next year | access-date=December 10, 2008 | author=Hay, Travis | work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer | date=December 10, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081212071203/http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/earcandy/archives/156610.asp <!--Added by H3llBot--> | archive-date=December 12, 2008}}</ref> It was the first reissue in a planned re-release of Pearl Jam's entire catalog that led up to the band's 20th anniversary in 2011.<ref name="reissue"/> A Pearl Jam retrospective film directed by ] titled '']''<ref name="pj20-ten-club">{{cite web |url=http://pearljam.com/news/0/18/18477/happy_pj20_ten_club |title=Happy PJ20 Ten Club! |access-date=January 6, 2011 |work=pearljam.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811021100/http://pearljam.com/news/0/18/18477/happy_pj20_ten_club |archive-date=August 11, 2014 }}</ref> was also planned to coincide with the anniversary.<ref name="mynorthwest">{{cite web | url=http://www.mynorthwest.com/rss/rondon.rss | title=Ron and Don Show: 3-27-09 5:00 pm-6:00 pm | access-date=April 8, 2009 | author=McCready, Mike | publisher=97.3 KIRO, Seattle, Washington | date=March 27, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090222200913/http://www.mynorthwest.com/rss/rondon.rss | archive-date=February 22, 2009 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> In 2011, ''Vs.'' and ''Vitalogy'' were reissued in the spring time in deluxe form.<ref name="pj20-ten-club" /> The rest of the bands catalog has yet to be reissued with no word on whether or not it will be.


Pearl Jam began work for the follow-up to ''Pearl Jam'' in early 2008.<ref name="beginwork">{{cite magazine | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/05/02/pearl-jam-begin-work-on-ninth-studio-album/ | title=Pearl Jam Begin Work on Ninth Studio Album | date=May 2, 2008 | access-date=May 2, 2008 | magazine=Rolling Stone|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080505053153/http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/05/02/pearl-jam-begin-work-on-ninth-studio-album/ |archive-date = May 5, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2009, the band began to build on instrumental and demo tracks written during 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.idiomag.com/peek/63867/pearl_jam|title=Pearl Jam ready for studio return|date=February 10, 2009|access-date=February 12, 2009|publisher=Idiomag.com}}</ref> The album '']'' was its first to be produced by Brendan O'Brien since ''Yield''.<ref name="beginwork"/> ''Backspacer'' debuted at No.&nbsp;1 on the Billboard music charts, the band's first album to do so since ''No Code'' in 1996,<ref name="billboard200">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/267231/pearl-jam-scores-first-no-1-on-billboard-200-in-13-years|title=Pearl Jam Scores First No. 1 On Billboard 200 In 13 Years |access-date=September 30, 2009|date=September 30, 2009 |magazine=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001074529/http://www.billboard.com/ | archive-date=October 1, 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref> and has sold 635,000 copies as of July 2013, according to ].<ref name="Backspacer-sales">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/3382210/pearl-jam-crashes-back-mind-your-manners-storms-rock-radio |title=Pearl Jam crashes back - Mind Your Manners storms rock radio |access-date=July 24, 2013|magazine=Billboard|date=July 19, 2013 }}</ref> The music on the record features a sound influenced by pop and ].<ref name="classicrock">{{cite web | url=http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/new-pearl-jam-album-is-a-tight-concise-rocknroll-record/ | title=Pearl Jam Album A 'Tight, Concise Rock'N'Roll Record' | access-date=July 10, 2009 | author=Hotten, Jon | author-link=Jon Hotten | work=] | date=July 10, 2009}}</ref> Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that "prior to ''Backspacer'', Pearl Jam wouldn't or couldn't have made music this unfettered, unapologetically assured, casual, and, yes, fun".<ref>{{cite web|author=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|title=Backspacer - Pearl Jam|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r1660774|pure_url=yes}}|access-date=September 18, 2009|website=Allmusic}}</ref> Regarding the lyrics, Vedder said: "I've tried, over the years, to be hopeful in the lyrics, and I think that's going to be easier now."<ref name="newLP">{{cite magazine| title=Pearl Jam to Release New LP in 2009 | magazine = Rolling Stone | date=February 19, 2009 | url = https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/pearljam/articles/story/25905582/pearl_jam_to_release_new_lp_in_2009 | archive-date = May 17, 2009 | access-date = June 3, 2009 | author=Hiatt, Brian | url-status=dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090517092732/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/pearljam/articles/story/25905582/pearl_jam_to_release_new_lp_in_2009}}</ref> "]" was chosen as the album's first single.<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120620161540/http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=16770 |date=June 20, 2012 }}. ].</ref> Pearl Jam did not re-sign its record deal with J Records, and the band released the album through its own label Monkeywrench Records in the United States and through ] internationally. Pearl Jam reached a deal with Target to be the exclusive big-box retailer for the album in the United States. The album also saw release through the band's official website, independent record stores, online retailers, and iTunes.<ref>{{cite magazine | author=Werde, Bill | title=Exclusive: Pearl Jam Confirms Target Tie-Up | url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/268489/exclusive-pearl-jam-confirms-target-tie-up | magazine=Billboard | date=June 1, 2009 | access-date=June 1, 2009}}</ref><ref name="future">{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/267884/pearl-jam-back-to-the-future | title=Pearl Jam: 'Back' to the Future | access-date=July 31, 2009 | author=Cohen, Jonathan | magazine=Billboard | date=July 31, 2007}}</ref> In an interview in September 2009 McCready revealed that Pearl Jam was scheduled to finish the ''Backspacer'' outtakes within six months,<ref>{{cite web | author=Anderson, Kyle | title=Pearl Jam To Release Extra Tracks From Backspacer Sessions | url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1621907/pearl-jam-to-release-extra-tracks-from-backspacer-sessions/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151109230132/http://www.mtv.com/news/1621907/pearl-jam-to-release-extra-tracks-from-backspacer-sessions/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 9, 2015 | publisher=MTV | date=September 21, 2009 | access-date=September 21, 2009}}</ref> and told San Diego radio station ] that the band may release an EP in 2010 consisting of those songs, and Vedder instead suggested that the songs may be used for the band's next studio album.<ref>{{cite magazine | author=Cohen, Jonathan | title=Pearl Jam: The 'Backspacer' Audio Q&As | url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/267474/pearl-jam-the-backspacer-qas | magazine=Billboard | date=September 8, 2009 | access-date=September 8, 2009}}</ref>
The single hit digital music stores March 14 acommpanied by the upbeat B-Side "Unemployable", which will also be part of the new album. "World Wide Suicide" reached #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart,#2 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart & #41 on the Billboard Hot 100.


In August 2009, Pearl Jam headlined the ],<ref>{{cite web | url=http://pearljam.com/news/0/28/18370/pearl_jam_to_headline_virgin_festival_in_calgary | title=Pearl Jam to Headline Virgin Festival in Calgary | access-date=June 30, 2009 | publisher=Pearljam.com | date=June 30, 2009 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811021529/http://pearljam.com/news/0/28/18370/pearl_jam_to_headline_virgin_festival_in_calgary | archive-date=August 11, 2014 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> the ],<ref>{{cite web | url=http://pearljam.com/news/0/30/18349/pearl_jam_to_appear_at_outside_lands_festival | title=Pearl Jam to appear at Outside Lands Festival | access-date=April 13, 2009 | publisher=Pearljam.com | date=April 13, 2009}}</ref> and played five shows in Europe and three in North America.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://pearljam.com/news/0/30/18356/pearl_jam_european_tour_dates | title=Pearl Jam European Tour Dates | access-date=April 27, 2009 | publisher=Pearljam.com | date=April 27, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://pearljam.com/news/0/29/18361/two_more_pearl_jam_tour_dates_added | title=Two More Pearl Jam Tour Dates Added | access-date=May 4, 2009 | publisher=Pearljam.com | date=May 4, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://pearljam.com/news/index.php/29/18363/and_another_one | title=And Another One ... | access-date=May 7, 2009 | publisher=Pearljam.com | date=May 7, 2009}}</ref> In October 2009, Pearl Jam headlined the ].<ref>{{cite web | title = The 2009 Line-up | url = http://2009.aclfestival.com/ | publisher = 2009.aclfestival.com | access-date = April 28, 2009 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090429090834/http://2009.aclfestival.com/ | archive-date = April 29, 2009 | df = mdy-all }}</ref> Later in October on Halloween night, the band played in what was the last performance at the Philadelphia Spectrum. An additional leg consisting of a tour of Oceania took place afterwards.<ref name="future"/> In May 2010, the band embarked on a month-long tour starting with the ]. The tour headed to the East Coast and ended May 21, 2010 at Madison Square Garden in New York.<ref name="TenClub-2010 Tour">{{cite web |url=http://pearljam.com/setlists/1025/2010 |title=Tour: Pearl Jam&nbsp;– Ten Club |access-date=June 28, 2010 |work=pearljam.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120610060026/http://pearljam.com/setlists/1025/2010 |archive-date=June 10, 2012 }}</ref> A European tour took place in June and July 2010, where the band performed in Northern Ireland for the first time at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast.<ref name="TenClub-2010">{{cite web |url=http://pearljam.com/news/0/24/18413/2010_european_tour_announced_updated |title=2010 European Tour Announced |access-date=December 7, 2009 |work=pearljam.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811021854/http://pearljam.com/news/0/24/18413/2010_european_tour_announced_updated |archive-date=August 11, 2014 }}</ref> In late October 2010, Pearl Jam performed at the 24th Annual ] at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California.<ref name="TenClub-BridgeSchool">{{cite web |url=http://pearljam.com/news/0/19/18462/pearl_jam_to_perform_at_24th_annual_bridge_school_benefit |title=Pearl Jam to Perform at 24th Annual Bridge School Benefit |access-date=September 15, 2010|work=pearljam.com}}</ref> A live album, titled '']'', was released on January 17, 2011.<ref name="Live on Ten Legs">{{cite web |url=http://pearljam.com/archives/2/November-2010/18467 |title=Pearl Jam announce the release of Live on Ten Legs |access-date=November 8, 2010 |work=pearljam.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811021354/http://pearljam.com/archives/2/November-2010/18467 |archive-date=August 11, 2014}}</ref> It is a compilation of live tracks from their 2003 to 2010 world tours, and is a follow-up to '']'', which consisted of songs recorded during their 1998 North American tour.<ref name="Live on Ten Legs Review">{{cite web | url=http://www.upvenue.com/article/1256-pearl-jam-live-on-ten-legs-review.html | title=Pearl Jam's "Live on Ten Legs" – Album Review | date=January 13, 2011 | access-date=January 16, 2011 | work=UpVenue | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110119214205/http://www.upvenue.com/article/1256-pearl-jam-live-on-ten-legs-review.html | archive-date=January 19, 2011 | df=mdy-all }}</ref>
To promote the new album, Pearl Jam has a handful of television appearances scheduled during the month prior to the official release of the album. On April 15th, "World Wide Suicide" & "Severed Hand" were premiered live, for the first time, on ]; making this Pearl Jam's first appearance on SNL since 1994. They also performed on ] on ] and July 1st for their first-ever ] appearance.


In March 2011, bassist Jeff Ament told ''Billboard'' that the band had 25 songs and they'd be heading into the studio in April to begin recording the follow-up to ''Backspacer''.<ref name="Billboard new album">{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/472527/new-pearl-jam-album-other-band-projects-in-the-works | title= New Pearl Jam Album, Other Band Projects in the Works | date=March 16, 2011 | access-date=March 16, 2011 |magazine=Billboard}}</ref> On May 16, 2011, the band confirmed that they would play the Labor Day weekend at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin, followed by ].<ref name="PJ20">{{cite magazine | url=http://pearljam.com/news/ten-club-announces-alpine-valley-and-canada-tour | title= Ten Club Announces Alpine Valley and Canada Tour | date=May 16, 2011 | access-date=May 16, 2011 |magazine=Billboard}}</ref>
The new album was available for preorder through the band's website that included a packaging style similar to that of ] as opposed to the digipak version released into stores. It also included the band's ] ] ] show on ] as a free bonus.


On September 8, 2011, the band released a new song titled "Olé".<ref name="Ole">{{cite web | url=http://www.pj20.com | title=New Pearl Song | date=September 8, 2011 | access-date=September 8, 2011 | work=PJ20.com | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715090823/http://www.pj20.com/ | archive-date=July 15, 2011 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> On November 18, the band released '']''—a free live album available through the launch of Google Music. On November 21, 2011, as part of their PJ20 World Tour, Pearl Jam visited ] for the first time to a 30,000 crowd of fans at the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://adondeirhoy.com/fotos/concierto-pearl-jam-en-costa-rica/ |title=Concierto Pearl Jam en Costa Rica |publisher=Adondeirhoy.com |access-date=September 16, 2012}}</ref> The following month, the band announced a ], which started in June 2012.<ref name="2012Tour">{{cite web | url=http://pearljam.com/news/pearl-jam-announces-reissue-band%E2%80%99s-debut-album-ten/11/18573/pearl_jam_announces_2012_europeuk_tour | title=Pearl Jam Announces 2012 Europe/UK Tour | date=December 8, 2011 | access-date=December 15, 2011 | publisher=pearljam.com | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811021214/http://pearljam.com/news/pearl-jam-announces-reissue-band%E2%80%99s-debut-album-ten/11/18573/pearl_jam_announces_2012_europeuk_tour | archive-date=August 11, 2014 | df=mdy-all }}</ref>
The first leg of their ] World Tour was announced on March 7, opening with a two night stand in Toronto, and focusing on the major cities in the northeast part of the United States, with rock band ] as the opening act. It concluded on June 3 in ] New Jersey. The second leg was announced on April 5, and began on June 23 with a show in ], ] and ends with a two night stand at the ] in ]. ] was the opening act for the June 23 show in Pittsburgh and the June 24 show in ], ], three sets of two-night stands with ] in ], ], and ]. ] is scheduled to open the west coast dates. Pearl Jam played a warmup show on April 20th at the ] in ], ], and were announced as the surprise headliners this year at the ] on August 25, and the ] on August 27 in England. Currently 22 shows have been announced, in ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and the ], with more shows to be added. Pearl Jam also will be touring ] in November.
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Pearl Jam was awarded an ] for best live act in ]'s 2006 Esky Music Awards. The blurb called Pearl Jam "the rare superstars who still play as though each show could be their last."


===''Lightning Bolt'' (2013–2017)===
] in May 2016]]
On July 11, 2013, the band announced that their tenth studio album '']'' would be released internationally on October 14, 2013, and on the next day in the United States, along with releasing the first single "]".<ref name="LightningBolt">{{cite web|url=http://pearljam.com/news/0/1/21874/new_pearl_jam_album_%E2%80%9Clightning_bolt%E2%80%9D_available_october_15 |title=New Pearl Jam Album "Lightning Bolt" Available October 15 |access-date=July 11, 2013 |work=Pearl Jam |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130714043429/http://pearljam.com/news/0/1/21874/new_pearl_jam_album_%E2%80%9Clightning_bolt%E2%80%9D_available_october_15 |archive-date=July 14, 2013 }}</ref> The band played a ] in North America during October and November,<ref name="2013Tour">{{cite web|url=http://pearljam.com/news/0/1/21863/pearl_jam_announces_fall_2013_north_american_tour_dates |title=Pearl Jam Announces Fall 2013 North American Tour Dates |date=July 8, 2013 |access-date=July 8, 2013 |publisher=pearljam.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130710010416/http://pearljam.com/news/0/1/21863/pearl_jam_announces_fall_2013_north_american_tour_dates |archive-date=July 10, 2013 }}</ref> followed by headlining the final ] festival in Australia and New Zealand in 2014.<ref name="SMH">{{cite news | url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/i-thought-blur-was-all-over-alex-james-talks-the-band-and-headlining-big-day-out-20130731-2qzgb.html | title= 'I thought Blur was all over': Alex James talks the band and headlining Big Day Out| date=July 31, 2013 | access-date=July 31, 2013 | newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald}}</ref><ref name="Australian">{{cite news | url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/music/pearl-jam-blur-and-arcade-fire-head-big-day-out-line-up/story-fn9d2mxu-1226689050761 | title= Pearl Jam, Blur and Arcade Fire head Big Day Out line-up| date=July 31, 2013 | access-date=July 31, 2013 | newspaper=The Australian}}</ref> The second single, "]", was released on September 18, 2013.<ref name="Sirens">{{cite web |url=http://blog.siriusxm.com/2013/09/18/pearl-jam-new-single-sirens-lightning-bolt/#.Ujno5RDJZfx |title=Countdown: World premiere of Sirens, Pearl Jam's new single |access-date=September 18, 2013 |work=Sirius XM |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921225310/http://blog.siriusxm.com/2013/09/18/pearl-jam-new-single-sirens-lightning-bolt/#.Ujno5RDJZfx |archive-date=September 21, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> After selling 166,000 copies in its first week, ''Lightning Bolt'' became Pearl Jam's fifth album to reach number one on the Billboard 200.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5763242/pearl-jam-earns-fifth-no-1-album-on-billboard-200 |title=Pearl Jam Earns Fifth No. 1 Album On Billboard 200 |magazine=] |first=Keith |last=Caulfield |date=October 23, 2013 |access-date=April 11, 2014}}</ref> At the ] in February 2015, the album won the award for ].<ref name="57thGrammy">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/grammy-awards-2015-the-complete-winners-list-20150208 |title=Grammy Awards 2015: The Complete Winners List |access-date=February 9, 2015 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=February 8, 2015 |archive-date=February 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150209053502/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/grammy-awards-2015-the-complete-winners-list-20150208 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In November 2015 the band played a ].<ref name="2015Latin">{{cite web|url=http://pearljam.com/news/0/1/22601/latin_america_tour_2015 |title=Latin America Tour 2015 |date=March 13, 2015 |access-date=March 17, 2015 |publisher=pearljam.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315145813/http://www.pearljam.com/news/0/1/22601/latin_america_tour_2015 |archive-date=March 15, 2015 }}</ref>


In January 2016, the band announced a ], including appearances at the ] and ].<ref name="2016Dates">{{cite magazine| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pearl-jam-announce-north-american-spring-and-summer-tour-20160119| title=Pearl Jam Announce North American Spring and Summer Tour| date=January 19, 2016| access-date=January 19, 2016| magazine=Rolling Stone| archive-date=January 20, 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160120154552/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pearl-jam-announce-north-american-spring-and-summer-tour-20160119| url-status=dead}}</ref> In April 2017, Pearl Jam was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. At the ceremony they were inducted by comedian ].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/read-david-lettermans-moving-rock-hall-speech-for-pearl-jam-w475822|title=Watch David Letterman's Eloquent Pearl Jam Rock Hall Induction Speech|date=April 8, 2017|magazine=]|access-date=September 8, 2017|archive-date=February 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180225155042/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/read-david-lettermans-moving-rock-hall-speech-for-pearl-jam-w475822|url-status=dead}}</ref> In August 2017, the band announced the release of the live album and concert film '']'' from the band's shows at Wrigley Field in Chicago the previous year.<ref name="LPT">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pearl-jam-capture-wrigley-field-shows-in-lets-play-two-w498765 |title=Pearl Jam Capture Wrigley Field Shows in 'Let's Play Two' Concert Film |access-date=August 22, 2017 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=August 21, 2017 |archive-date=August 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822011216/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pearl-jam-capture-wrigley-field-shows-in-lets-play-two-w498765 |url-status=dead }}</ref>


===Touring and ''Gigaton'' (2018–2023)===
In June of 2006, Eddie Vedder appeared on the cover of ], with a five-page feature inside. While in terms of scope and topics covered, this latest Rolling Stone feature is highly reminiscent of earlier band interviews, this article is perhaps most noteworthy for its candid encounter with Vedder’s personal life, including his newfound sense of fatherhood, and his relationship with other rock artists, including Bruce Springsteen and Kurt Cobain.
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] in July 2022]]
The band launched a ] with shows in South America in March 2018, including shows at the ] events in Brazil and Chile.<ref name="PJ-SA18">{{cite web | url=https://pearljam.com/news/south-america-lollapalooza-2018 | title=See Pearl Jam at Lollapalooza in South America | date=September 27, 2017| access-date=December 1, 2017| publisher=Pearl Jam}}</ref> followed by performances in Europe and North America.<ref name="PJ-Euro18">{{cite magazine | url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/pearl-jam-announce-uk-europe-2018-tour-tickets-2167099 | title=Pearl Jam announce UK and Europe 2018 tour |date=December 1, 2017| access-date=December 1, 2017| magazine=NME}}</ref> The tour included two shows for homelessness-related charities in the band's hometown of Seattle.<ref name="SpinHT">{{cite magazine | url=https://www.spin.com/2018/01/pearl-jam-seattle-home-shows-homeless-charity/ | title=Pearl Jam Announce First Seattle Shows in Five Years |date=January 22, 2018| access-date=January 23, 2018| magazine=Spin}}</ref>


Prior to the first shows of the tour, Pearl Jam released the song "]".<ref name="Deny">{{cite web | url=https://pearljam.com/news/new-song-cant-deny-me-out-now | title=New Song 'Can't Deny Me' Out Now |date=March 12, 2018| access-date=March 13, 2018| publisher=Pearl Jam}}</ref><ref name="COS-Deny">{{cite magazine | url=https://consequence.net/2018/03/pearl-jam-confirm-release-of-new-album/ | title=Pearl Jam confirm release of new album |date=March 13, 2018| access-date=March 13, 2018| magazine=Consequence of Sound}}</ref> In December 2019, Pearl Jam confirmed that they would be ] in the summer of 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pearljam.com/news/pearl-jam-is-returning-to-europe-in-2020 |title=Pearl Jam is returning to Europe in 2020 |work=Pearl Jam |access-date=December 2, 2019}}</ref> On January 13, 2020, the band announced that their album '']'' would be released on March 27, 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2020/music/news/pearl-jam-announces-new-album-gigaton-spring-tour-1203465148/ |title=Pearl Jam Announces First Album in Seven Years, Along With North American Tour |work=Variety |date=January 13, 2020 |access-date=January 13, 2020}}</ref> In conjunction with the release of their eleventh studio album, the band also announced tour dates in North America during March and April 2020.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pearl-jam-new-album-gigaton-tour-936423/|title=Pearl Jam Announce New Album 'Gigaton', North American Tour Dates|last1=Greene|first1=Andy|date=January 13, 2020|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US|access-date=January 14, 2020}}</ref> However, the North American leg was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the aim to reschedule them for a later date.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pearljam.com/news/spring-tour-postponed |title=Spring Tour Postponed |work=Pearl Jam |access-date=March 10, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51814696 |title=Pearl Jam, Miley Cyrus and Madonna scrap gigs over coronavirus fears |work=BBC News |date=March 10, 2020 |access-date=March 10, 2020}}</ref> In September 2020, the band confirmed that their '']'' live set would be released on vinyl and CD for the first time the following month.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/2020/09/pearl-jam-to-release-1992-mtv-unplugged-sessions/ |title=Pearl Jam to Release 1992 ''MTV Unplugged'' Session |work=Spin |date=September 10, 2020 |access-date=September 11, 2020}}</ref>
==Members==


In May 2021, Pearl Jam announced the release of a digital collection of nearly 200 concerts dating from 2000 to 2013.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Kreps|first=Daniel|title=Pearl Jam Announce 'Deep' Digital Live Archives of Nearly 200 Shows |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pearl-jam-deep-live-archives-1166480/|magazine=]|date=May 7, 2021|access-date=May 7, 2021}}</ref> The collection of 5,404 individual songs, titled ''Deep'', is accessible by members of the Pearl Jam Ten Club.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Graves|first=Wren|title=Pearl Jam Launch New Digital Archive DEEP with 186 Live Shows|url=https://consequence.net/2021/05/pearl-jam-digital-archive-deep/|work=]|date=May 7, 2021|access-date=May 7, 2021}}</ref> On September 18, 2021, the band played their first show since 2018 at the ] in ], where former ] guitarist ] made his debut as a touring musician with the band.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/2161183/pearl-jam-gigaton-first-show-pandemic/news/|title= Watch Pearl Jam Debut Gigaton Tracks Live At First Show In 3&nbsp;Years|first=James|last=Rettig|work=Stereogum|date=September 19, 2021|access-date=September 19, 2021}}</ref> In May 2022, Pearl Jam began to tour for their postponed shows, originally intended to be played in 2020. That same month, Matt Cameron was forced to miss his first shows in 24&nbsp;years since joining the band after testing positive for ]. Josh Klinghoffer and ] played drums for Cameron.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/2022/05/matt-cameron-out-with-covid-josh-klinghoffer-richard-stuverud-drum-for-pearl-jam-in-oakland/|title= Matt Cameron Out With COVID, Josh Klinghoffer, Richard Stuverud Drum For Pearl Jam In Oakland|first=Jonathan|last=Cohen|work=Spin|date=May 13, 2022|access-date=May 14, 2022}}</ref> In April 2023, Pearl Jam announced a 4th leg of their Gigaton Tour, primarily focused in the ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam 2023 U.S. Tour Announcement |url=https://pearljam.com/news/pearl-jam-2023-us-tour-announcement |access-date=2023-10-23 |website=pearljam.com}}</ref> In September 2023, their show in ], was postponed due to illness within the band.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam Ruoff Music Center Postponement |url=https://pearljam.com/news/pearl-jam-ruoff-music-center-postponement |access-date=2023-10-23 |website=pearljam.com}}</ref>{{Listen|filename=Pearl Jam Dark Matter audio clip.mp3|title="Dark Matter"
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=== ''Dark Matter'' (2024–present) ===
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At the private ] playback in Los Angeles, the band confirmed their twelfth album, titled '']'', produced by ]. The album's packaging features ] art by Alexandr Gnezdilov. The album was released to critical acclaim on April 19, 2024<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Pearl Jam Announces New Album and 2024 World Tour as Eddie Vedder Declares Band Has Made Its 'Best Work' |url=https://people.com/pearl-jam-new-album-dark-matter-2024-world-tour-dates-8579327 |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=Peoplemag |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Dalton |first1=Andrew |title=Pearl Jam throws a listening party for their new album that Eddie Vedder calls 'our best work' |url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/pearl-jam-gives-throws-a-listening-party-for-18641253.php |website=SFGate}}</ref> shortly before a ].<ref name=":0" /> The announcement of the album occurred alongside the release of the title track as the lead single.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sacher |first=Andrew |title=Pearl Jam announce new album ''Dark Matter'', share title track |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/pearl-jam-announce-new-album-dark-matter-share-title-track/ |access-date=2024-02-13 |website=BrooklynVegan |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-02-13 |title=Hear Pearl Jam's first new song in 4 years "Dark Matter" |url=https://www.revolvermag.com/music/hear-pearl-jams-first-new-song-4-years-dark-matter |access-date=2024-02-13 |website=Revolver |language=en}}</ref> The album received ] nominations for ], ] ("Dark Matter"), and ] ("Dark Matter").<ref>{{cite web|title=Spiritbox, Knocked Loose, Green Day, Pearl Jam and more nominated for Grammys|first=Emily|last=Carter|date=November 8, 2024|publisher=]|url=https://www.kerrang.com/spiritbox-knocked-loose-green-day-pearl-jam-and-more-nominated-for-grammys }}</ref> In June and July 2024, the band canceled three shows in ] and ] because of significant illness in the band, which Vedder described as a "near-death experience" similar to ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-07-09 |title=Eddie Vedder: Pearl Jam's Illness Was "Near-Death Experience" |url=https://consequence.net/2024/07/eddie-vedder-pearl-jam-illness/ |access-date=2024-07-17 |language=en-US}}</ref>
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The 2024 Dark Matter World Tour featured stage visuals by Seattle native ], known for his work with ] and ]. This marked the band's first use of such video visuals on tour, with Sheridan's work also appearing in their "]" live music video.
Formerly:
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*] - drums (1990&ndash;1991)
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*] - drums (1991&ndash;1994)
==Musical style and influences==
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Compared with the other ] bands of the early 1990s, Pearl Jam's style is noticeably less heavy and harks back to the ] music of the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web|last=Unterberger |first=Andrew |url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/pearl-jam/rearviewmirror.htm |title=Pearl Jam: Rearviewmirror |work=Stylus |date=November 18, 2004 |access-date=July 1, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070504193449/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/pearl-jam/rearviewmirror.htm |archive-date=May 4, 2007 }}</ref> Pearl Jam has cited many classic rock bands and artists as influences, including ],<ref name="Milner">{{Cite web |last=Milner |first=Greg |date=July 15, 2003 |title=My Life in Music: Eddie Vedder |url=https://www.spin.com/2003/07/my-life-music-eddie-vedder/ |website=]}}</ref> ],<ref name="Milner"/> ], ],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.guitarworld.com/features/jeff-ament-stone-was-always-writing-from-a-zeppelin-angle-so-seeing-if-fretless-bass-could-work-in-that-realm-was-exciting|title=Jeff Ament: "Stone was always writing from a Zeppelin angle, so seeing if fretless bass could work in that realm was exciting"|first=Joe |last=Dalylast|date=November 19, 2020|website=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1519972/qa-pearl-jams-stone-gossard-on-songwriting-making-setlists-and-lightning-bolt/interviews/|title=Q&A: Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard On Songwriting, Making Setlists, And Lightning Bolt|date=October 14, 2013}}</ref> ], ], ], ],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fendercustomshop.com/series/limited-edition/limited-edition-mike-mccready-1960-stratocaster-aaa-rosewood-fingerboard-faded-3-color-sunburst/|title=Limited Edition Mike McCready 1960 Stratocaster® &#124; Limited Edition Series &#124; Fender® Custom Shop|first=Fender® Musical|last=Instruments|website=www.fendercustomshop.com}}</ref> ],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbhAqdZaIS8|title=Mike McCready on the Influence of Jimi Hendrix &#124; MoPOP &#124; Museum of Pop Culture|date=April 5, 2020 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.2112.net/powerwindows/transcripts/19940304stpetersburgtimes.htm |title=In No Hurry To Change |work=St. Petersburg Times |date=March 4, 1994 |access-date=May 14, 2024}}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.guitarworld.com/news/mike-mccready-meeting-van-halen | title="When van Halen came out, I thought it was the greatest sound I'd ever heard. Eddie was like, 'Nah, I never really liked the sound of that record'": Mike McCready recalls meeting Eddie van Halen – and tries his hand at playing Eruption off the cuff | date=April 26, 2024 }}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blabbermouth.net/news/doug-pinnick-how-kings-x-influenced-soundgarden-pearl-jam-and-alice-in-chains |title=Doug Pinnick: How King's X Influenced Soundgarden, Pearl Jam And Alice In Chains |website=] |date=August 12, 2022 |access-date=May 13, 2024}}</ref> as well as alternative and punk bands such as ] and the ].<ref>{{cite book |last=Givony |first=Ronen |author-link= |date=2020 |title=Not For You. Pearl Jam and the Present Tense |url= |location=United States |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|page=143 |isbn=}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |date=2011 |title=Pearl Jam Twenty |location=United States|publisher=Simon & Schuster |pages=11–19 |isbn=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhqKCQXI8s0|title=Eddie Vedder in Conversation with Bruce Springsteen|date=February 13, 2022 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Et-Li0tTkE|title=Mike McCready Limited Edition 1960 Stratocaster &#124; Fender Custom Shop &#124; Fender|date=April 8, 2021 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ruVuXloCaA|title=Mike McCready on Pearl Jam's "Sirens"|date=October 16, 2013 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vintageguitar.com/39391/mike-mccready/|title=Mike McCready &#124; Vintage Guitar® magazine|first=Ward|last=Meeker|date=June 13, 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/2021/12/5-albums-i-cant-live-without-jeff-ament-of-pearl-jam/|title=5 Albums I Can't Live Without: Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam - SPIN|date=December 10, 2021 }}</ref> Pearl Jam's success has been attributed to its sound, which fuses "the riff-heavy stadium rock of the '70s with the grit and anger of '80s post-punk, without ever neglecting hooks and choruses".<ref name="Erlewine" /> Gossard's rhythm guitar style is known for its sense of beat and groove,<ref>Garbarini, Vic. "Mother of Pearl". '']''. May 1995.</ref> while McCready's lead guitar style, influenced by artists such as ],<ref>Rotondi, James. "Blood On the Tracks". '']''. January 1994.</ref> has been described as "feel-oriented" and "rootsy".<ref>{{cite web | url = {{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p103683|pure_url=yes}} | title = Mike McCready > Biography | access-date=April 20, 2009 | last = Prato | first = Greg | work =Allmusic}}</ref>

Pearl Jam has broadened its musical range with subsequent releases. As he had more influence on the band's sound, Vedder sought to make the band's musical output less ]. He said: "I felt that with more popularity, we were going to be crushed, our heads were going to pop like grapes."<ref name="secondcoming"/> By 1994's '']'', the band began to incorporate more punk influences into its music;<ref>{{cite web | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9900E0DC1030F937A35751C1A962958260 | title=RECORDINGS VIEW; Pearl Jam Gives Voice To Sisyphus | access-date=December 13, 2007 | author=Jon Pareles | work=The New York Times | date=December 4, 1994}}</ref> the record also features what Erlewine describes as Pearl Jam's "strangest music", citing atypical songs such as "Bugs", "Aye Davanita" and "Stupid Mop".<ref>{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/vitalogy-mw0000121446|title=''Vitalogy'' – Pearl Jam|website=]|access-date=March 21, 2009}}</ref> The band's 1996 album, '']'', was a deliberate break from the musical style of '']''. The songs on the album featured elements of ], ], and ].<ref name="Erlewine"/> After 1998's '']'', which was somewhat of a return to the straightforward rock approach of the band's early work,<ref name="allmusicyield"/> they dabbled with experimental ] on the '']'' album of 2000, and with ] elements on the 2002 album '']''. The band's 2006 ] was cited as a return to their early sound.<ref name="PearlJamreview"/><ref name="Easley"/> Their 2009 album, '']'', contains elements of pop and ].<ref name="classicrock"/>

Critic Jim DeRogatis describes Vedder's vocals as a "]-like vocal growl".<ref>DeRogatis, p. 57.</ref> Greg Prato of AllMusic stated: "With his hard-hitting and often confessional lyrical style and Jim Morrison-esque baritone, Vedder also became one of the most copied lead singers in all of rock."<ref>{{cite web | url = {{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p134417|pure_url=yes}} | title = Eddie Vedder > Biography | access-date=April 20, 2009 | last = Prato | first = Greg | work =Allmusic}}</ref> Vedder's lyrical topics range from personal ("Alive", "Better Man") to social and political concerns ("Even Flow", "World Wide Suicide"). His lyrics have often invoked the use of storytelling and have included themes of ], ], and sympathy for troubled individuals.<ref>Tannenbaum, Rob. "Rebels Without a Pause". '']''. July 2000.</ref> When the band started, Gossard and McCready were designated as rhythm and lead guitarists, respectively. The dynamic began to change when Vedder started to play more rhythm guitar during the ''Vitalogy'' era. McCready said in 2006: "Even though there are three guitars, I think there's maybe more room now. Stone will pull back and play a two-note line and Ed will do a ] thing, and I fit into all that."<ref>] "Better Man". ''Guitar World Presents: Guitar Legends: Pearl Jam''. July 2006.</ref>

==Legacy==
While Nirvana had brought grunge to the mainstream in the early 1990s with '']'', Pearl Jam's debut ''Ten'' outsold it in the United States,<ref>{{Cite web|title = Pearl Jam: 'You, My Son, Are Weird!'|url = http://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/pearl-jam-you-my-son-are-weird|website = www.rocksbackpages.com|access-date = October 13, 2015|publisher = ]|first = Mat|last = Snow|date = November 1993}}</ref> and the band became "the most popular American rock & roll band of the '90s" according to AllMusic.<ref name="Erlewine" /> Pearl Jam has been described as "] radio's most influential stylists&nbsp;– the workmanlike midtempo chug of songs like 'Alive' and 'Even Flow' just melodic enough to get ] singing along".<ref>Sinagra, Laura. "Grunge". ''Spin: 20 Years of Alternative Music.'' Three Rivers Press, 2005. {{ISBN|0-307-23662-5}}, p. 150.</ref> The band inspired and influenced a number of bands, including ], ] and ].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/06/19/tem_ae19pearljam.html | title=Pearl Jam's tour even surprised bassist Ament | access-date=July 1, 2007 | author=Jenkins, Mandy | work=] | date=June 19, 2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/58184/mercy-strokes-cover-gaye-with-vedder-homme | title='Mercy': Strokes Cover Gaye With Vedder, Homme | access-date=July 10, 2007 | author=Cohen, Jonathan | magazine=Billboard | date=June 9, 2006}}</ref> The band has also been credited for inspiring the indie rock scene of 90s-era urban Pakistan, that has since evolved into a rich rock music culture in the country.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/189422/the-vedderisation-of-pakistani-rock-its-still-alive/ | title=The 'Vedderisation' of Pakistani rock: It's still alive | access-date=June 16, 2011 | author=Khan, Laaleen | work=The Express Tribune | date=June 16, 2011}}</ref>

Pearl Jam was ranked at number 8 by ''Rolling Stone'' magazine in its "Top Ten Live Acts of All Time".<ref name="PJ is life">{{cite magazine|url= https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/rolling-stone-readers-pick-the-top-ten-live-acts-of-all-time-11789/2-the-rolling-stones-22923/|magazine=Rolling Stone|title=Rolling Stone Readers Pick the Top Ten Live Acts of All Time|date=March 9, 2011|access-date=December 10, 2018}}</ref> Pearl Jam has been praised for its rejection of rock star excess and its insistence on backing causes it believes in. Music critic Jim DeRogatis stated in the aftermath of the band's battle with Ticketmaster that it "proved that a rock band which isn't {{sic|comprised |hide=y|of}} greed heads can play stadiums and not milk the audience for every last dime... it indicated that idealism in rock 'n' roll is not the sole province of those '60s bands enshrined in the ]".<ref>DeRogatis, p. 66.</ref> In 2001, Eric Weisbard of ''Spin'' wrote: "The group that was once accused of being synthetic grunge now seem as organic and principled a rock band as exists."<ref name="tenpast" /><ref name="fiveH"/> In a 2005 readers' poll in ''USA Today'', Pearl Jam was voted the greatest American rock band of all time.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/popcandy/2005-07-05-pop-candy_x.htm | title=And the Greatest American rock band ever is... | access-date=May 7, 2007 | author=Matheson, Whitney | work=USA Today | date=July 5, 2005}}</ref> In April 2006, Pearl Jam was awarded the prize for "Best Live Act" in ''Esquire'''s Esky Music Awards. The blurb called Pearl Jam "the rare superstars who still play as though each show could be their last".<ref name="Esky">{{cite news | title= The 2006 Esky Music Awards|work=] |date=April 2006}}</ref> Pearl Jam's fanbase following has been compared to that of the ]'s, with ''Rolling Stone'' magazine stating that Pearl Jam "toured incessantly and became one of rock's great arena acts, attracting a fanatical, Grateful Dead-like cult following with marathon, true-believer shows in the vanishing spirit of Bruce Springsteen, the Who and U2".<ref name="secondcoming" />

Pearl Jam tours with a crew, including longtime live monitor engineer and "mic girl" ], who has worked for the band for over 30 years.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Losneck |first1=Caroline |title=Meet The Woman Who's Been Pearl Jam's Sound Engineer For 24 Years |url=https://www.npr.org/2016/09/04/492433224/meet-the-woman-whos-been-pearl-jams-sound-engineer-for-24-years |website=NPR |access-date=4 September 2016}}</ref> Kille Knobel is Pearl Jam's longtime touring lighting designer<ref>{{cite web |last1=Chrissie |first1=Ferguson |title=Feature Friday: Pearl Jam's Lighting Director, Kille Knobel |url=https://wishlistfoundation.org/feature-friday/feature-friday-pearl-jams-lighting-director-kille-knobel/ |website=Wishlist Foundation}}</ref> after starting with the band in 2000 as an operator and programmer for a tour. Kevin Shuss has been the band's longtime videographer and archivist and self-described "pack rat".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Machkovech |first1=Sam |title='Why Go Home'? Pearl Jam Answers With Seattle Museum Exhibit, Outreach to City's Homeless |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/pearl-jam-seattle-museum-exhibit-8469664/ |access-date=10 August 2018 |agency=BILLBOARD |publisher=BILLBOARD}}</ref> The band has archives, unreleased material, B sides, masters and other materials within a vault, which is managed by Kevin Shuss, recording engineer John Burton, and the band.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kitchen Sisters |first=Kitchen Sisters and Caroline Losneck |date=October 13, 2020 |title=Pearl Jam: It's a Rock Band, Not The Smithsonian |url=https://kitchensisters.org/present/pearl-jam/ |website=The Kitchen Sisters Present}}</ref>

When asked about Pearl Jam's legacy in a 2000 interview, Vedder said: "I think at some point along the way we began feeling we wanted to give people something to believe in because we all had bands that gave that to us when we needed something to believe in. That was the big challenge for us after the first record and the response to it. The goal immediately became how do we continue to be musicians and grow and survive in view of all this... The answers weren't always easy, but I think we found a way."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-oct-19-ca-38639-story.html | title=Pearl Jam Does the Evolution | access-date=January 28, 2009 | author=Hilburn, Robert | work=Los Angeles Times | date=October 19, 2000}}</ref> Their 1992 ] performance was ranked second in ''Rolling Stone'''s list of its 15 Best Episodes.<ref name="MTVUG">{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/mtv-unplugged-the-15-best-episodes-119361/rod-stewart-1993-120007/|title='MTV Unplugged': The 15 Best Episodes|publisher=Rolling Stone|author=Andy Greene|date=n.d.|access-date=January 15, 2020}}</ref>

==Campaigning and activism==
Throughout its career, Pearl Jam has promoted wider social and political issues, from abortion rights sentiments to opposition to ]. Vedder acts as the band's spokesman on these issues. The band has promoted an array of causes, including awareness of ], which Mike McCready suffers from, ] venue monopolization and the environment and wildlife protection, among others.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2006/07/pearl-jamsleaterkinney.html | title= Pearl Jam/Sleater-Kinney, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, OR 7/20/2006 | access-date=July 10, 2007 | author=duBrowa, Cory | work=]}}</ref><ref name="causes">{{cite web | url=http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/PearlJam/activism/alist.html | title=Pearl Jam Synergy | access-date=June 26, 2007 | publisher=Sonymusic.com |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070618075914/http://www.sonymusic.com/artists/PearlJam/activism/alist.html |archive-date = June 18, 2007}}</ref> Guitarist Stone Gossard has been active in environmental pursuits, and has been an advocate of Pearl Jam's ] policy, offsetting the band's environmental impact.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/07/21/vanschagen/ | title="Jam Session" – Interview with Stone Gossard | access-date=November 1, 2008 | author=Van Schagen, Sarah | publisher=grist.org | date=July 21, 2006}}</ref> Vedder has advocated for the release of the ] for years and ], a member of the three, shares a writing credit for the song "Army Reserve" (from '']'').<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.wm3.org/live/newsevents/newsitem.php?news_Id=116 | title= Echols contributes to new Pearl Jam album | access-date=July 22, 2007 | publisher=wm3.org|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070928003356/http://www.wm3.org/live/newsevents/newsitem.php?news_Id=116 |archive-date = September 28, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The band, and especially frontman Eddie Vedder, have been vocal supporters of the abortion rights movement. In 1992, ''Spin'' printed an article by Vedder, titled "Reclamation", which detailed his views on abortion.<ref>Vedder, Eddie. "Reclamation". ''Spin''. November 1992.</ref> In an '']'' concert the same year, Vedder stood on a stool and wrote "PRO-CHOICE!" on his arm in protest when the band performed the song "Porch".<ref name="tenpast" /><ref name="fiveH"/> The band are members of a number of abortion rights organizations, including ] and ].<ref name="causes" />

As members of ] and ], the band has encouraged voter registration and participation in ]. Vedder was outspoken in support of ] presidential candidate ] in 2000,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archive.salon.com/ent/log/2000/09/26/vedder/index.html |title=Vedder on Nader: The better man |access-date=September 3, 2007 |author=Talvi, Silja J. A. |work=] |date=September 26, 2000 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071103041206/http://archive.salon.com/ent/log/2000/09/26/vedder/index.html |archive-date=November 3, 2007 }}</ref> and Pearl Jam played a series of concerts on the Vote for Change tour in October 2004, supporting the candidacy of ] for U.S. president. In a ''Rolling Stone'' feature showcasing the Vote for Change tour's performers, Vedder told the magazine: "I supported Ralph Nader in 2000, but it's a time of crisis. We have to get a new administration."<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6487639/voices_for_change | title=Voices for Change | access-date=September 3, 2007 | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=October 14, 2004|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070807100755/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6487639/voices_for_change |archive-date = August 7, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2006, the members of Pearl Jam founded the non-profit organization Vitalogy Foundation. Named after their ], the foundation supports non-profit organizations working in the fields of community health, the environment, arts, education and social change.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://pearljam.com/acts/vitalogy |title=The Vitalogy Foundation |website=pearljam.com}}</ref>

Vedder sometimes comments on politics between songs, often to criticize U.S. foreign policy, and a number of his songs, including "Bu$hleaguer" and "]", are openly critical of the ]. At Lollapalooza 2007, Vedder spoke out against ] ],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/pearl-jam/30173 |title=Pearl Jam Close Out Last Night at Lollapalooza |access-date=April 25, 2009 |work=NME |date=August 7, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430120637/http://www.nme.com/news/pearl-jam/30173 |archive-date=April 30, 2009 }}</ref> and at the end of "Daughter", he sang the lyrics "George Bush leave this world alone&nbsp;/ George Bush find yourself another home". In the beginning of the second encore Vedder invited Iraq war veteran Tomas Young, the subject of the documentary '']'', onto the stage to urge an end to the war. Young in turn introduced ], who contributed vocals to "No More" and "Rockin' in the Free World".<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hybridmagazine.com/music/0807/lollapalooza.shtml | title=Lollapalooza 2007 | access-date=August 6, 2007 | author=Warren, Dan | publisher=Hybrid Magazine | date=August 6, 2007 | archive-date=September 2, 2007 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070902134909/http://www.hybridmagazine.com/music/0807/lollapalooza.shtml | url-status=dead }}</ref> The band later discovered that some of the Bush-related lyrics were excised from the ] webcast of the event, and questioned whether that constitutes censorship.<ref>{{cite news | author=Jon Healey | url=http://opinion.latimes.com/bitplayer/2007/08/att-drops-pearl.html | title=AT&T drops Pearl Jam's call | access-date=November 22, 2015 | newspaper=Los Angeles Times | date=August 8, 2007}}</ref> AT&T later apologized and blamed the censorship on contractor ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135767-c,techindustrytrends/article.html |title=AT&T Says It Didn't Censor Pearl Jam |access-date=August 9, 2007 |author=Gross, Grant |publisher=] |date=August 9, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930184638/http://www.pcworld.com/article/id%2C135767-c%2Ctechindustrytrends/article.html |archive-date=September 30, 2007 }}</ref>

Pearl Jam has performed numerous benefit concerts in aid of charities and causes. For example, the band headlined a Seattle concert in 2001 to support the United Nations' efforts to combat world hunger.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1446419/20010807/pearl_jam.jhtml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021120001640/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1446419/20010807/pearl_jam.jhtml | url-status=dead | archive-date=November 20, 2002 | title=Pearl Jam To Play For Charity | access-date=July 31, 2007 | author=Schumacher-Rasmussen, Eric | publisher=MTV | date=August 7, 2001}}</ref> The band added a date at the Chicago House of Blues to its 2005 tour to help the victims of ]; the concert proceeds were donated to ], the ] and the ].<ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/61460/update-pearl-jam-the-roots-plan-katrina-benefits | title=Pearl Jam, The Roots Plan Katrina Benefits | access-date=July 31, 2007 | author=Cohen, Jonathan | magazine=Billboard | date=September 14, 2005}}</ref>

In 2011, Pearl Jam was named 2011 Planet Defenders by Rock the Earth for their environmental activism and their large-scale efforts to decrease their own carbon emissions.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.upvenue.com/article/1347-pearl-jam-is-announced-as-2011-planet-defenders-on-earth-day.html | title=Pearl Jam Is Announced as 2011 Planet Defenders on Earth Day | access-date=April 23, 2011 | work=UpVenue | date=April 23, 2011}}</ref>

Pearl Jam supported the re-election efforts of Senator ] with concerts in ] during their 2012, 2018, and 2024 tours.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2012/09/tester-teams-with-pearl-jam-in-montana-081841 |title=Tester rocks with Pearl Jam |work=Politico |last=Raju |first=Manu |date=October 1, 2012 |access-date=April 3, 2024}}</ref>

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* Clark, Martin. ''Pearl Jam & Eddie Vedder: None Too Fragile'' (2005). {{ISBN|0-85965-371-4}}
* Jones, Allan. ''Pearl Jam&nbsp;– The Illustrated Story, A Melody Maker Book'' (1995). {{ISBN|0-7935-4035-6}}
* McCready, Mike. ''Of Potato Heads and Polaroids: My Life Inside and Out of Pearl Jam'' (2017). {{ISBN|978-1-57687-835-4}}
* Neely, Kim. ''Five Against One: The Pearl Jam Story'' (1998). {{ISBN|0-14-027642-4}}
* Pearl Jam. ''Twenty'' (2011). {{ISBN|978-1-43916-921-6}}
* Prato, Greg. ''Grunge Is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music'' (2009). {{ISBN|978-1-55022-877-9}}
* Prato, Greg. ''100 Things Pearl Jam Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die'' (2018). {{ISBN|978-1-62937-540-3}}
* Wall, Mick. ''Pearl Jam'' (1996). {{ISBN|1-886894-33-7}}


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American rock band For their 2006 album, see Pearl Jam (album).

Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam performing in Amsterdam in 2012. From left to right: Mike McCready, Jeff Ament, Matt Cameron (on drums), Eddie Vedder, and Stone GossardPearl Jam performing in Amsterdam in 2012. From left to right: Mike McCready, Jeff Ament, Matt Cameron (on drums), Eddie Vedder, and Stone Gossard
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OriginSeattle, Washington, U.S.
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Pearl Jam is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. The band's lineup consists of founding members Jeff Ament (bass guitar), Stone Gossard (rhythm guitar), Mike McCready (lead guitar), and Eddie Vedder (lead vocals, guitar), as well as Matt Cameron (drums), who joined in 1998. Keyboardist Boom Gaspar has also been a touring/session member with the band since 2002. Former members include Dave Krusen (an original member), Matt Chamberlain, Dave Abbruzzese, and Jack Irons, all of whom were the band's drummers from 1990 to 1998. Pearl Jam has outsold and outlasted many of its contemporaries from the early 1990s, and is considered one of the most influential bands from that decade, dubbed "the most popular American rock and roll band of the '90s".

Formed after the demise of Gossard and Ament's previous bands, Green River and Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam broke into the mainstream with their debut album, Ten, in 1991. Ten stayed on the Billboard 200 chart for nearly five years, and has gone on to become one of the highest-selling rock records ever, going 13× Platinum in the United States. Released in 1993, Pearl Jam's second album, Vs., sold over 950,000 copies in its first week of release, setting the record for most copies of an album sold in its first week of release at the time. Their third album, Vitalogy (1994), became the second-fastest-selling CD in history at the time, with more than 877,000 units sold in its first week.

One of the key bands in the grunge movement of the early 1990s, Pearl Jam's members often shunned popular music industry practices such as making music videos or participating in interviews. The band had also sued Ticketmaster, claiming it had monopolized the concert-ticket market. In 2006, Rolling Stone described the band as having "spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing apart their own fame".

Pearl Jam had sold more than 85 million albums worldwide by 2018, including nearly 32 million albums in the United States by 2012, making them one of the best-selling bands of all time. Pearl Jam was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 in its first year of eligibility. They were ranked eighth in a readers' poll by Rolling Stone magazine in its "Top Ten Live Acts of All Time" issue. Throughout its career, the band has also promoted wider social and political issues, such as abortion rights sentiments and opposition to George W. Bush's presidency. Vedder acts as the band's spokesman on these issues.

History

Background (1984–1990)

Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament were members of Seattle-based grunge band Green River during the mid-1980s. Green River toured and recorded to moderate success, but disbanded in 1987 due to a stylistic division between the pair and bandmates Mark Arm and Steve Turner.

In late 1987, Gossard and Ament began playing with Malfunkshun vocalist Andrew Wood, eventually organizing the band Mother Love Bone. In 1988 and 1989, the band recorded and toured to increasing interest. PolyGram signed the band in early 1989. Mother Love Bone's debut album, Apple, was released in July 1990, four months after Wood died of a heroin overdose.

Formation (1990)

Ament and Gossard were devastated by the death of Wood and the resulting demise of Mother Love Bone. Gossard spent his time afterwards writing material that was harder-edged than what he had been doing previously. After a few months, Gossard started practicing with fellow Seattle guitarist Mike McCready, whose band, Shadow, had broken up; McCready in turn encouraged Gossard to reconnect with Ament. After practicing for a while, the trio sent out a five-song demo tape in order to find a singer and a drummer. They gave former Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Jack Irons the demo to see if he would be interested in joining the band and to distribute the demo to anyone he felt might fit the lead vocal position.

Irons passed on the invitation but gave the demo to his friend Eddie Vedder. Vedder was the lead vocalist for the San Diego band Bad Radio and worked part-time at a gas station. He listened to the tape shortly before going surfing, where lyrics came to him. He then recorded the vocals to three of the songs ("Alive", "Once", and "Footsteps") in what he later described as a "mini-opera" titled Mamasan. Vedder sent the tape with his vocals back to the three Seattle musicians, who were impressed enough to fly Vedder up to Seattle for an audition. Within a week, Vedder had joined the band.

With the addition of Dave Krusen on drums, the band took the name Mookie Blaylock, in reference to the then-active basketball player. The band played its first official show at the Off Ramp Café in Seattle on October 22, 1990. They opened for Alice in Chains at the Moore Theatre in Seattle on December 22, 1990, and served as the opening act for the band's Facelift tour in 1991. Mookie Blaylock soon signed to Epic Records and renamed themselves Pearl Jam. In an early promotional interview, Vedder said that the name "Pearl Jam" was a reference to his great-grandmother Pearl, who was married to a Native American and had a special recipe for peyote-laced jam. In a 2006 cover story for Rolling Stone, Vedder admitted that this story was "total bullshit", but added that he did have a great-grandmother named Pearl. Ament and McCready explained that Ament came up with "pearl", and that the band later settled on Pearl Jam after attending a Neil Young concert in which he extended his songs as improvisations (i.e. "jams") of 15–20 minutes in length.

Ten and the grunge explosion (1991–1992)

Pearl Jam performing in July 1991

Pearl Jam entered Seattle's London Bridge Studios in March 1991 to record its debut album Ten. McCready said that "Ten was mostly Stone and Jeff; Eddie and I were along for the ride at that time." Krusen left the band in May 1991 after checking himself into rehabilitation for alcoholism; he was replaced by Matt Chamberlain, who previously played with Edie Brickell & New Bohemians. After playing only a handful of shows, one of which was filmed for the "Alive" video, Chamberlain left to join the band for Saturday Night Live. Chamberlain suggested Dave Abbruzzese as his replacement. Abbruzzese joined the group and played the rest of Pearl Jam's live shows supporting Ten.

Released on August 27, 1991, Ten (named after Mookie Blaylock's jersey number) contained 11 tracks dealing with dark subjects like depression, suicide, loneliness, and murder. Ten's musical style, influenced by classic rock, combined an "expansive harmonic vocabulary" with an anthemic sound. The album was slow to sell, but by the second half of 1992 it became a breakthrough success, being certified gold and reaching number two on the Billboard charts. Ten produced the hit singles "Alive", "Even Flow", and "Jeremy". Originally interpreted as an anthem by many, Vedder later revealed that "Alive" tells the semi-autobiographical tale of a son discovering that his father is actually his stepfather, and his mother's grief turns her to sexually embrace her son, who strongly resembles the biological father. In this lyric, even though Vedder originally looked at "being alive as a curse", as the sadness the speaker in the song suggests, "But as fans quickly turned the title phrase into a self-empowering anthem", particularly at Pearl Jam concerts, Vedder said: "they lifted the curse. The audience changed the meaning for me", he told VH1 Storytellers in 2006.

The song "Jeremy" and its accompanying video were inspired by a true story in which a high school student shot himself in front of his classmates. Ten stayed on the Billboard charts for nearly five years, going 13× platinum.

With the success of Ten, Pearl Jam became a key member of the Seattle grunge explosion, along with Alice in Chains, Nirvana, and Soundgarden. The band was criticized in the music press; British music magazine NME wrote that Pearl Jam was "trying to steal money from young alternative kids' pockets".

Pearl Jam toured relentlessly in support of Ten. Ament stated that "essentially Ten was just an excuse to tour", adding: "We told the record company, 'We know we can be a great band, so let's just get the opportunity to get out and play.'" The band's manager Kelly Curtis stated: "Once people came and saw them live, this lightbulb would go on. Doing their first tour, you kind of knew it was happening and there was no stopping it." Early on in Pearl Jam's career, the band became known for its intense live performances. Looking back at this time, Vedder said that "playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... But it didn't come from jock mentality. It came from just being let out of the gates."

In 1992, Pearl Jam made television appearances on Saturday Night Live and MTV Unplugged and took a slot on that summer's Lollapalooza tour with Ministry, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Soundgarden, among others. The band contributed two songs to the soundtrack of the 1992 Cameron Crowe film Singles: "State of Love and Trust" and "Breath". Ament, Gossard and Vedder appeared in Singles under the name Citizen Dick; their parts were filmed when Pearl Jam was known as Mookie Blaylock.

Vs., Vitalogy and dealing with success (1993–1995)

Pearl Jam with President Bill Clinton in the Oval Office in April 1994

The band members grew uncomfortable with their success, with much of the burden of Pearl Jam's popularity falling on frontman Vedder. While Pearl Jam received four awards at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards for its video for "Jeremy", including Video of the Year and Best Group Video, the band refused to make a video for "Black" in spite of pressure from the label. This action began a trend of the band refusing to make videos for its songs. Vedder felt that the concept of music videos robbed listeners from creating their own interpretations of the song, stating that "Before music videos first came out, you'd listen to a song with headphones on, sitting in a beanbag chair with your eyes closed, and you'd come up with your own visions, these things that came from within. Then all of a sudden, sometimes even the first time you heard a song, it was with these visual images attached, and it robbed you of any form of self-expression." "Ten years from now", Ament said, "I don't want people to remember our songs as videos."

Pearl Jam headed into the studio in early 1993 facing the challenge of following up the commercial success of its debut. McCready said: "The band was blown up pretty big and everything was pretty crazy." Released on October 19, 1993, Pearl Jam's second album, Vs., sold 950,378 copies in its first week of release and outperformed all other entries in the Billboard top ten that week combined. The album set the record for most copies of an album sold in its first week of release, which it held until broken by Garth Brooks' 1998 album Double Live. Vs. included the singles "Go", "Daughter", "Animal", and "Dissident". Paul Evans of Rolling Stone stated: "Few American bands have arrived more clearly talented than this one did with Ten; and Vs. tops even that debut." He added: "Like Jim Morrison and Pete Townshend, Vedder makes a forte of his psychological-mythic explorations... As guitarists Stone Gossard and Mike McCready paint dense and slashing backdrops, he invites us into a drama of experiment and strife." The band decided, beginning with the release of Vs., to scale back its commercial efforts. The members declined to produce any more music videos after the massive success of "Jeremy" and opted for fewer interviews and television appearances. Industry insiders compared Pearl Jam's tour that year to the touring habits of Led Zeppelin in that the band "ignored the press and took its music directly to the fans". During the Vs. Tour, the band set a cap on ticket prices in an attempt to thwart scalpers.

By 1994, Pearl Jam was "fighting on all fronts" as its manager described the band at the time. Reporter Chuck Philips broke a series of stories showing that Ticketmaster was gouging Pearl Jam's customers. Pearl Jam was outraged when, after it played a pair of charity benefit shows in Chicago, it discovered that ticket vendor Ticketmaster had added a service charge to the tickets. Pearl Jam was committed to keeping their concert ticket prices down but Fred Rosen of Ticketmaster refused to waive the service charge. Because Ticketmaster controlled most major venues, the band was forced to create from scratch its own outdoor stadiums in rural areas in order to perform. Pearl Jam's efforts to organize a tour without the ticket giant collapsed, which Pearl Jam said was evidence of Ticketmaster's monopoly. An analysis of journalist Chuck Philips' investigative series in a well known legal monograph concluded that it was hard to imagine a legitimate reason for Ticketmaster's exclusive contracts with venues and contracts to cover such a lengthy period of time. The authors wrote: "The pervasiveness of Ticketmaster's exclusive agreements, coupled with their excessive duration and the manner in which they are procured, supported a finding that Ticketmaster had engaged in anticompetitive conduct under section 2 of the Sherman Act."

The United States Department of Justice was investigating the company's practices at the time and asked the band to create a memorandum of its experiences with the company. Band members Gossard and Ament testified at a subcommittee investigation on June 30, 1994, in Washington, D.C. Pearl Jam alleged that Ticketmaster used anti-competitive and monopolistic practices to gouge fans. After Pearl Jam's testimony before Congress, Congressman Dingell (D-Mich.) wrote a bill requiring full disclosure to prevent Ticketmaster from burying escalating service fees. Pearl Jam's manager said he was gratified that Congress recognized the problem as a national issue. The band eventually canceled its 1994 summer tour in protest. After the Justice Department dropped the case, Pearl Jam continued to boycott Ticketmaster, refusing to play venues that had contracts with the company. The band tried to work around Ticketmaster's exclusive contracts by hosting charities and benefits at major venues because the exclusive contracts often contained a clause allowing charity event promoters to sell their own tickets. Music critic Jim DeRogatis noted that, along with the Ticketmaster debacle, "the band has refused to release singles or make videos; it has demanded that its albums be released on vinyl; and it wants to be more like its 1960s heroes, the Who, releasing two or three albums a year". He also stated that sources said that most of the band's third album Vitalogy was completed by early 1994, but that either a forced delay by Epic or the battle with Ticketmaster was to blame for the delay.

Pearl Jam wrote and recorded while touring behind Vs. and the majority of the tracks for Vitalogy were recorded during breaks on the tour. Tensions within the band had increased by this time. Producer Brendan O'Brien said: "Vitalogy was a little strained. I'm being polite—there was some imploding going on." After Pearl Jam finished the recording of Vitalogy, drummer Dave Abbruzzese was fired. The band cited political differences between Abbruzzese and the other members; for example, Abbruzzese disagreed with the Ticketmaster boycott. He was replaced by Jack Irons, who had connected Vedder to the rest of the band some four years prior. Irons made his debut with the band at Neil Young's 1994 Bridge School Benefit, but he was not announced as the band's new drummer until its 1995 Self-Pollution satellite radio broadcast, a four-and-a-half-hour-long pirate broadcast out of Seattle which was available to any radio stations that wanted to carry it.

Vitalogy was released first on November 21, 1994, on vinyl and then two weeks later on December 6, 1994, on CD and cassette. The CD became the second-fastest-selling in history, with more than 877,000 units sold in its first week. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic stated that "thanks to its stripped-down, lean production, Vitalogy stands as Pearl Jam's most original and uncompromising album". Many of the songs on the album appear to be inspired by the pressures of fame. The song "Spin the Black Circle", an homage to vinyl records, won a Grammy Award in 1996 for Best Hard Rock Performance. Vitalogy also included the songs "Not for You", "Corduroy", "Better Man", and "Immortality". "Better Man" (sample), a song originally written and performed by Vedder while in Bad Radio, reached number one on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, spending a total of eight weeks there. Considered a "blatantly great pop song" by producer Brendan O'Brien, Pearl Jam was reluctant to record it and initially rejected it from Vs. due to its accessibility.

The band continued its boycott against Ticketmaster during its 1995 tour for Vitalogy, but was surprised that virtually no other bands joined. Pearl Jam's initiative to play only at non-Ticketmaster venues effectively, with a few exceptions, prevented it from playing shows in the United States for the next three years. Ament later said: "We were so hardheaded about the 1995 tour. Had to prove we could tour on our own, and it pretty much killed us, killed our career." In the same year, Pearl Jam backed Neil Young, whom the band had noted as an influence, on his album Mirror Ball. Contractual obligations prevented the use of the band's name anywhere on the album, but the members were all credited individually in the album's liner notes. Two songs from the sessions were left off Mirror Ball: "I Got Id" and "Long Road". These two tracks were released separately by Pearl Jam in the form of the 1995 EP Merkin Ball.

No Code and Yield (1996–1999)

Lead guitarist Mike McCready performing in Columbia, Maryland in September 1998

Following the round of touring for Vitalogy, the band went into the studio to record No Code. Vedder said: "Making No Code was all about gaining perspective." Released in 1996, No Code was seen as a deliberate break from the band's sound since Ten, favoring experimental ballads and noisy garage rockers. David Browne of Entertainment Weekly stated that "No Code displays a wider range of moods and instrumentation than on any previous Pearl Jam album." The lyrical themes on the album deal with issues of self-examination, with Ament stating: "In some ways, it's like the band's story. It's about growing up." Although the album debuted at number one on the Billboard charts, it quickly fell down the charts. No Code included the singles "Who You Are" (sample), "Hail, Hail", and "Off He Goes". As with Vitalogy, very little touring was done to promote No Code because of the band's refusal to play in Ticketmaster's venue areas. A European tour took place in the fall of 1996. Gossard stated that there was "a lot of stress associated with trying to tour at that time" and that "it was growing more and more difficult to be excited about being part of the band".

Following the short tour for No Code, the band went into the studio in 1997 to record its follow-up. The sessions for the band's fifth album represented more of a team effort among all members of the group, with Ament stating that "everybody really got a little bit of their say on the record... because of that, everybody feels like they're an integral part of the band". On February 3, 1998, Pearl Jam released Yield. The album was cited as a return to the band's early, straightforward rock sound. Tom Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly stated that the band has "turned in an intermittently affecting album that veers between fiery garage rock and rootsy, acoustic-based ruminations. Perhaps mindful of their position as the last alt-rock ambassadors with any degree of clout, they've come up with their most cohesive album since their 1991 debut, Ten." Lyrically, Yield continued with the more contemplative type of writing found on No Code, with Vedder saying: "What was rage in the past has become reflection." Yield debuted at number two on the Billboard charts, but like No Code soon began dropping down the charts. It included the singles "Given to Fly" and "Wishlist". The band hired comic book artist Todd McFarlane to create an animated video for the song "Do the Evolution" from the album, its first music video since 1992. A documentary detailing the making of Yield, Single Video Theory, was released on VHS and DVD later that year.

In April 1998, Pearl Jam again changed drummers. Jack Irons left the band due to dissatisfaction with touring and was replaced with former Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron on a temporary basis, but he soon became a permanent replacement for Irons. Pearl Jam's 1998 Yield Tour in North America marked the band's return to full-scale touring. The band's anti-trust lawsuit against Ticketmaster had proven to be unsuccessful and hindered live tours. Many fans had complained about the difficulty in obtaining tickets and the use of non-Ticketmaster venues, which were judged to be out-of-the-way and impersonal. For this tour and future tours, Pearl Jam again began using Ticketmaster in order to "better accommodate concertgoers". The 1998 summer tour was a big success, and after it was completed the band released Live on Two Legs, a live album which featured select performances from the tour.

In 1998, Pearl Jam recorded "Last Kiss", a cover of a 1960s ballad made famous by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers. It was recorded during a soundcheck and released on the band's 1998 fan club Christmas single. The following year, the cover was put into heavy rotation across the country. By popular demand, the cover was released to the public as a single in 1999, with all of the proceeds going to the aid of refugees of the Kosovo War. The band also decided to include the song on the 1999 charity compilation album, No Boundaries: A Benefit for the Kosovar Refugees. "Last Kiss" peaked at number two on the Billboard charts and became the band's highest-charting single.

Binaural and the Roskilde tragedy (2000–2001)

Pearl Jam in Columbia, Maryland in September 2000

Following its full-scale tour in support of Yield, the band took a short break, but then reconvened toward the end of 1999 and commenced work on a new album. On May 16, 2000, Pearl Jam released its sixth studio album, Binaural. It was drummer Matt Cameron's studio recording debut with the band. The title is a reference to the binaural recording techniques that were utilized on several tracks by producer Tchad Blake, known for his use of the technique. Binaural was the first album since the band's debut not produced by Brendan O'Brien, although O'Brien was called in later to remix several tracks. Gossard stated that the band members "were ready for a change". Jon Pareles of Rolling Stone wrote: "Apparently as tired of grunge as everyone except Creed fans, Pearl Jam delve elsewhere." He added: "The album reflects both Pearl Jam's longstanding curse of self-importance and a renewed willingness to be experimental or just plain odd." The album is lyrically darker than the band's previous album Yield, with Gossard describing the lyrics as "pretty sombre". Binaural included the singles "Nothing as It Seems", one of the songs featuring binaural recording, and "Light Years". The album sold just over 700,000 copies and became the first Pearl Jam studio album to fail to reach platinum status.

Pearl Jam decided to record every show on its 2000 Binaural Tour professionally, after noting the desire of fans to own a copy of the shows they attended and the popularity of bootleg recordings. The band had been open in the past about allowing fans to make amateur recordings, and these "official bootlegs" were an attempt to provide a more affordable and better quality product for fans. Pearl Jam originally intended to release them to only fan club members, but the band's record contract prevented it from doing so. Pearl Jam released all of the albums in record stores as well as through its fan club. The band released 72 live albums in 2000 and 2001, and twice set a record for most albums to debut in the Billboard 200 at the same time.

Pearl Jam's 2000 European tour ended in tragedy on June 30, with an accident at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark. Nine fans were crushed underfoot and suffocated as the crowd rushed to the front. After numerous requests for the crowd to step back, the band stopped playing and tried to calm the crowd when the musicians realized what was happening, but it was already too late. The two remaining dates of the tour were canceled and members of the band contemplated retiring after this event.

A month after the European tour concluded, the band embarked on its two-leg 2000 North American tour. On performing after the Roskilde tragedy, Vedder said that "playing, facing crowds, being together—it enabled us to start processing it". On October 22, 2000, the band played the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, celebrating the tenth anniversary of its first live performance as a band. Vedder took the opportunity to thank the many people who had helped the band come together and make it to ten years. He noted that "I would never do this accepting a Grammy or something." After concluding the Binaural Tour, the band released Touring Band 2000 the following year. The DVD featured select performances from the North American legs of the tour.

Following the events of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Vedder and McCready were joined by Neil Young to perform the song "Long Road" from the EP Merkin Ball at the America: A Tribute to Heroes benefit concert. The concert, which aired on September 21, 2001, raised money for the victims and their families.

Riot Act (2002–2005)

Pearl Jam commenced work on a new album following a year-long break after its full-scale tour in support of Binaural. McCready described the recording environment as "a pretty positive one" and "very intense and spiritual". Regarding the time period when the lyrics were being written, Vedder said: "There's been a lot of mortality... It's a weird time to be writing. Roskilde changed the shape of us as people, and our filter for seeing the world changed." Pearl Jam released Riot Act on November 12, 2002. It included the singles "I Am Mine" and "Save You". The album featured a much more folk-based and experimental sound, evident in the presence of B3 organist Boom Gaspar on songs such as "Love Boat Captain". Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote: "Riot Act is the album that Pearl Jam has been wanting to make since Vitalogy—a muscular art rock record, one that still hits hard but that is filled with ragged edges and odd detours." The track titled "Arc" was recorded as a vocal tribute to the nine people who died at the Roskilde Festival in June 2000. Vedder only performed this song nine times on the 2003 tour, and the band left the track off all released bootlegs.

In 2003, the band embarked on its Riot Act Tour, which included tours in Australia and North America. The band continued its official bootleg program, making every concert from the tour available in CD form through its official website. A total of six bootlegs were made available in record stores: Perth, Western Australia; Tokyo; State College, Pennsylvania; two shows from Madison Square Garden; and Mansfield, Massachusetts. At many shows during the 2003 North American tour, Vedder performed Riot Act's "Bu$hleaguer", a commentary on President George W. Bush, with a rubber mask of Bush, wearing it at the beginning of the song and then hanging it on a mic stand to allow him to sing. The band made news when it was reported that several fans left after Vedder had "impaled" the Bush mask on his mic stand at the band's show in Denver, Colorado.

In June 2003, Pearl Jam announced it was leaving Epic Records following the end of its contract with the label. The band stated it had "no interest" in signing with another label. The band's first release without a label was the single for "Man of the Hour", in partnership with Amazon.com. Director Tim Burton approached Pearl Jam to request an original song for the soundtrack of his film Big Fish. After screening an early print of the film, Pearl Jam recorded the song for him. "Man of the Hour", which was later nominated for a Golden Globe Award, can be heard in the closing credits of Big Fish.

The band released Lost Dogs, a two-disc collection of rarities and B-sides, and Live at the Garden, a DVD featuring the band's July 8, 2003 concert at Madison Square Garden through Epic Records in November 2003. In 2004, Pearl Jam released the live album Live at Benaroya Hall through a one-album deal with BMG. 2004 marked the first time that Pearl Jam licensed a song for usage in a television show; a snippet of the song "Yellow Ledbetter" was used in the final episode of the television series Friends. Later that year, Epic released rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991–2003), a greatest-hits collection spanning 1991 to 2003. This release marked the end of Pearl Jam's contractual agreement with Epic Records.

Pearl Jam played a show at Easy Street Records in Seattle in April 2005; recordings from the show were compiled for the album Live at Easy Street and released exclusively to independent record stores in June 2006. The band embarked on a Canadian cross-country tour in September 2005, kicking off the tour with a fundraising concert in Missoula, Montana for Democratic politician Jon Tester and playing The Gorge Amphitheatre. After touring Canada, Pearl Jam proceeded to open a Rolling Stones concert in Pittsburgh, then played two shows at the Borgata casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, then closed the tour with a concert in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The official bootlegs for the band's 2005 shows were distributed via Pearl Jam's official website in MP3 form. Pearl Jam also played a benefit concert to raise money for Hurricane Katrina relief on October 5, 2005, at the House of Blues in Chicago. On November 22, 2005, Pearl Jam began its first Latin American tour.

Move to J Records and Pearl Jam (2006–2008)

Frontman Eddie Vedder in Pistoia, Italy in September 2006

The work for Pearl Jam's follow-up to Riot Act began after its appearance on the 2004 Vote for Change tour. The time period between the two albums was the longest gap between Pearl Jam's studio albums to date and the new album was its first release for a new label. Clive Davis announced in February 2006 that Pearl Jam had signed with his label J Records, which like Epic, is part of Sony Music Entertainment (then known as Sony BMG), though J has since folded into RCA Records. The album Pearl Jam was released on May 2, 2006. A number of critics cited Pearl Jam as a return to the band's early sound, and McCready compared the material to Vs. in a 2005 interview. Ament said: "The band playing in a room—that came across. There's a kind of immediacy to the record, and that's what we were going for." Chris Willman of Entertainment Weekly wrote that "in a world full of boys sent to do a man's job of rocking, Pearl Jam can still pull off gravitas". Current socio-political issues in the United States are addressed on the album. "World Wide Suicide", a song criticizing the Iraq War and U.S. foreign policy, was released as a single and topped the Billboard Modern Rock chart; it was Pearl Jam's first number one on that chart since "Who You Are" in 1996, and first number one on any chart in the United States since 1998 when "Given to Fly" reached number one on the Mainstream Rock chart. Pearl Jam also included the singles "Life Wasted" and "Gone".

To support Pearl Jam, the band embarked on its 2006 world tour. It toured North America, Australia and notably Europe; Pearl Jam had not toured the continent for six years. The North American tour included three two-night stands opening for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The band served as the headliners for the Leeds and Reading festivals, despite having vowed to never play at a festival again after Roskilde. Vedder started both concerts with an emotional plea to the crowd to look after each other. He commented during the Leeds set that the band's decision to play a festival for the first time after Roskilde had nothing to do with "guts" but with trust in the audience.

In 2007, Pearl Jam recorded a cover of the Who's "Love, Reign o'er Me" for the film Reign Over Me; it was later made available as a music download on the iTunes Music Store. The band embarked on a 13-date European tour, and headlined Lollapalooza in Grant Park, Chicago on August 5, 2007. The band released a CD box set in June 2007, titled Live at the Gorge 05/06, that documents its shows at The Gorge Amphitheatre, and in September 2007 a concert DVD, titled Immagine in Cornice, which documents the band's Italian shows from its 2006 tour was released.

In June 2008, Pearl Jam performed as the headline act at the Bonnaroo Music Festival. The Bonnaroo appearance took place amidst a twelve-date tour in the Eastern United States. In July 2008, the band performed at the VH1 tribute to the Who with Foo Fighters, Incubus and the Flaming Lips. In the days prior to Election Day 2008, Pearl Jam digitally released through its official website a free documentary film, titled Vote for Change? 2004, which follows the band's time spent on the 2004 Vote for Change tour.

Reissues and Backspacer (2009–2012)

In March 2009, Ten was reissued in four editions, featuring such extras as a remastering and remix of the entire album by Brendan O'Brien, a DVD of the band's 1992 appearance on MTV Unplugged, and an LP of its concert of September 20, 1992 at Magnuson Park in Seattle. It was the first reissue in a planned re-release of Pearl Jam's entire catalog that led up to the band's 20th anniversary in 2011. A Pearl Jam retrospective film directed by Cameron Crowe titled Pearl Jam Twenty was also planned to coincide with the anniversary. In 2011, Vs. and Vitalogy were reissued in the spring time in deluxe form. The rest of the bands catalog has yet to be reissued with no word on whether or not it will be.

Pearl Jam began work for the follow-up to Pearl Jam in early 2008. In 2009, the band began to build on instrumental and demo tracks written during 2008. The album Backspacer was its first to be produced by Brendan O'Brien since Yield. Backspacer debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard music charts, the band's first album to do so since No Code in 1996, and has sold 635,000 copies as of July 2013, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The music on the record features a sound influenced by pop and new wave. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that "prior to Backspacer, Pearl Jam wouldn't or couldn't have made music this unfettered, unapologetically assured, casual, and, yes, fun". Regarding the lyrics, Vedder said: "I've tried, over the years, to be hopeful in the lyrics, and I think that's going to be easier now." "The Fixer" was chosen as the album's first single. Pearl Jam did not re-sign its record deal with J Records, and the band released the album through its own label Monkeywrench Records in the United States and through Universal Music Group internationally. Pearl Jam reached a deal with Target to be the exclusive big-box retailer for the album in the United States. The album also saw release through the band's official website, independent record stores, online retailers, and iTunes. In an interview in September 2009 McCready revealed that Pearl Jam was scheduled to finish the Backspacer outtakes within six months, and told San Diego radio station KBZT that the band may release an EP in 2010 consisting of those songs, and Vedder instead suggested that the songs may be used for the band's next studio album.

In August 2009, Pearl Jam headlined the Virgin Festival, the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, and played five shows in Europe and three in North America. In October 2009, Pearl Jam headlined the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Later in October on Halloween night, the band played in what was the last performance at the Philadelphia Spectrum. An additional leg consisting of a tour of Oceania took place afterwards. In May 2010, the band embarked on a month-long tour starting with the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. The tour headed to the East Coast and ended May 21, 2010 at Madison Square Garden in New York. A European tour took place in June and July 2010, where the band performed in Northern Ireland for the first time at the Odyssey Arena in Belfast. In late October 2010, Pearl Jam performed at the 24th Annual Bridge School Benefit Concert at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. A live album, titled Live on Ten Legs, was released on January 17, 2011. It is a compilation of live tracks from their 2003 to 2010 world tours, and is a follow-up to Live on Two Legs, which consisted of songs recorded during their 1998 North American tour.

In March 2011, bassist Jeff Ament told Billboard that the band had 25 songs and they'd be heading into the studio in April to begin recording the follow-up to Backspacer. On May 16, 2011, the band confirmed that they would play the Labor Day weekend at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin, followed by ten shows in Canada.

On September 8, 2011, the band released a new song titled "Olé". On November 18, the band released Toronto 9.11.11—a free live album available through the launch of Google Music. On November 21, 2011, as part of their PJ20 World Tour, Pearl Jam visited Costa Rica for the first time to a 30,000 crowd of fans at the National Stadium. The following month, the band announced a tour of Europe, which started in June 2012.

Lightning Bolt (2013–2017)

Pearl Jam onstage at Madison Square Garden in May 2016

On July 11, 2013, the band announced that their tenth studio album Lightning Bolt would be released internationally on October 14, 2013, and on the next day in the United States, along with releasing the first single "Mind Your Manners". The band played a two-leg tour in North America during October and November, followed by headlining the final Big Day Out festival in Australia and New Zealand in 2014. The second single, "Sirens", was released on September 18, 2013. After selling 166,000 copies in its first week, Lightning Bolt became Pearl Jam's fifth album to reach number one on the Billboard 200. At the 57th Annual Grammy Awards in February 2015, the album won the award for Best Recording Package. In November 2015 the band played a nine-date tour of Latin America.

In January 2016, the band announced a tour of the United States and Canada, including appearances at the New Orleans Jazz Festival and Bonnaroo. In April 2017, Pearl Jam was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. At the ceremony they were inducted by comedian David Letterman. In August 2017, the band announced the release of the live album and concert film Let's Play Two from the band's shows at Wrigley Field in Chicago the previous year.

Touring and Gigaton (2018–2023)

Pearl Jam performing in London in June 2018
Pearl Jam at BST Hyde Park in July 2022

The band launched a 2018 tour with shows in South America in March 2018, including shows at the Lollapalooza festival events in Brazil and Chile. followed by performances in Europe and North America. The tour included two shows for homelessness-related charities in the band's hometown of Seattle.

Prior to the first shows of the tour, Pearl Jam released the song "Can't Deny Me". In December 2019, Pearl Jam confirmed that they would be touring Europe in the summer of 2020. On January 13, 2020, the band announced that their album Gigaton would be released on March 27, 2020. In conjunction with the release of their eleventh studio album, the band also announced tour dates in North America during March and April 2020. However, the North American leg was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the aim to reschedule them for a later date. In September 2020, the band confirmed that their MTV Unplugged live set would be released on vinyl and CD for the first time the following month.

In May 2021, Pearl Jam announced the release of a digital collection of nearly 200 concerts dating from 2000 to 2013. The collection of 5,404 individual songs, titled Deep, is accessible by members of the Pearl Jam Ten Club. On September 18, 2021, the band played their first show since 2018 at the Sea.Hear.Now Festival in Asbury Park, New Jersey, where former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer made his debut as a touring musician with the band. In May 2022, Pearl Jam began to tour for their postponed shows, originally intended to be played in 2020. That same month, Matt Cameron was forced to miss his first shows in 24 years since joining the band after testing positive for COVID-19. Josh Klinghoffer and Richard Stuverud played drums for Cameron. In April 2023, Pearl Jam announced a 4th leg of their Gigaton Tour, primarily focused in the Midwestern United States. In September 2023, their show in Noblesville, Indiana, was postponed due to illness within the band.

"Dark Matter" A sample of "Dark Matter".
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Dark Matter (2024–present)

At the private Troubadour playback in Los Angeles, the band confirmed their twelfth album, titled Dark Matter, produced by Andrew Watt. The album's packaging features light painting art by Alexandr Gnezdilov. The album was released to critical acclaim on April 19, 2024 shortly before a 2024 world tour. The announcement of the album occurred alongside the release of the title track as the lead single. The album received Grammy nominations for Best Rock Album, Best Rock Song ("Dark Matter"), and Best Rock Performance ("Dark Matter"). In June and July 2024, the band canceled three shows in London and Berlin because of significant illness in the band, which Vedder described as a "near-death experience" similar to bronchitis.

The 2024 Dark Matter World Tour featured stage visuals by Seattle native Rob Sheridan, known for his work with Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails. This marked the band's first use of such video visuals on tour, with Sheridan's work also appearing in their "Wreckage" live music video.

Musical style and influences

"Given to Fly" A sample of "Given to Fly" from Yield (1998), a hard rock song which features Vedder's distinctive baritone vocals and McCready's prominent lead guitar throughout.
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Compared with the other grunge bands of the early 1990s, Pearl Jam's style is noticeably less heavy and harks back to the classic rock music of the 1970s. Pearl Jam has cited many classic rock bands and artists as influences, including the Beatles, the Who, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, Rush, Van Halen, King's X, as well as alternative and punk bands such as R.E.M. and the Ramones. Pearl Jam's success has been attributed to its sound, which fuses "the riff-heavy stadium rock of the '70s with the grit and anger of '80s post-punk, without ever neglecting hooks and choruses". Gossard's rhythm guitar style is known for its sense of beat and groove, while McCready's lead guitar style, influenced by artists such as Jimi Hendrix, has been described as "feel-oriented" and "rootsy".

Pearl Jam has broadened its musical range with subsequent releases. As he had more influence on the band's sound, Vedder sought to make the band's musical output less catchy. He said: "I felt that with more popularity, we were going to be crushed, our heads were going to pop like grapes." By 1994's Vitalogy, the band began to incorporate more punk influences into its music; the record also features what Erlewine describes as Pearl Jam's "strangest music", citing atypical songs such as "Bugs", "Aye Davanita" and "Stupid Mop". The band's 1996 album, No Code, was a deliberate break from the musical style of Ten. The songs on the album featured elements of garage rock, worldbeat, and experimentalism. After 1998's Yield, which was somewhat of a return to the straightforward rock approach of the band's early work, they dabbled with experimental art rock on the Binaural album of 2000, and with folk rock elements on the 2002 album Riot Act. The band's 2006 self-titled album was cited as a return to their early sound. Their 2009 album, Backspacer, contains elements of pop and new wave.

Critic Jim DeRogatis describes Vedder's vocals as a "Jim Morrison-like vocal growl". Greg Prato of AllMusic stated: "With his hard-hitting and often confessional lyrical style and Jim Morrison-esque baritone, Vedder also became one of the most copied lead singers in all of rock." Vedder's lyrical topics range from personal ("Alive", "Better Man") to social and political concerns ("Even Flow", "World Wide Suicide"). His lyrics have often invoked the use of storytelling and have included themes of freedom, individualism, and sympathy for troubled individuals. When the band started, Gossard and McCready were designated as rhythm and lead guitarists, respectively. The dynamic began to change when Vedder started to play more rhythm guitar during the Vitalogy era. McCready said in 2006: "Even though there are three guitars, I think there's maybe more room now. Stone will pull back and play a two-note line and Ed will do a power chord thing, and I fit into all that."

Legacy

While Nirvana had brought grunge to the mainstream in the early 1990s with Nevermind, Pearl Jam's debut Ten outsold it in the United States, and the band became "the most popular American rock & roll band of the '90s" according to AllMusic. Pearl Jam has been described as "modern rock radio's most influential stylists – the workmanlike midtempo chug of songs like 'Alive' and 'Even Flow' just melodic enough to get moshers singing along". The band inspired and influenced a number of bands, including Silverchair, the White Stripes and the Strokes. The band has also been credited for inspiring the indie rock scene of 90s-era urban Pakistan, that has since evolved into a rich rock music culture in the country.

Pearl Jam was ranked at number 8 by Rolling Stone magazine in its "Top Ten Live Acts of All Time". Pearl Jam has been praised for its rejection of rock star excess and its insistence on backing causes it believes in. Music critic Jim DeRogatis stated in the aftermath of the band's battle with Ticketmaster that it "proved that a rock band which isn't comprised of greed heads can play stadiums and not milk the audience for every last dime... it indicated that idealism in rock 'n' roll is not the sole province of those '60s bands enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame". In 2001, Eric Weisbard of Spin wrote: "The group that was once accused of being synthetic grunge now seem as organic and principled a rock band as exists." In a 2005 readers' poll in USA Today, Pearl Jam was voted the greatest American rock band of all time. In April 2006, Pearl Jam was awarded the prize for "Best Live Act" in Esquire's Esky Music Awards. The blurb called Pearl Jam "the rare superstars who still play as though each show could be their last". Pearl Jam's fanbase following has been compared to that of the Grateful Dead's, with Rolling Stone magazine stating that Pearl Jam "toured incessantly and became one of rock's great arena acts, attracting a fanatical, Grateful Dead-like cult following with marathon, true-believer shows in the vanishing spirit of Bruce Springsteen, the Who and U2".

Pearl Jam tours with a crew, including longtime live monitor engineer and "mic girl" Karrie Keyes, who has worked for the band for over 30 years. Kille Knobel is Pearl Jam's longtime touring lighting designer after starting with the band in 2000 as an operator and programmer for a tour. Kevin Shuss has been the band's longtime videographer and archivist and self-described "pack rat". The band has archives, unreleased material, B sides, masters and other materials within a vault, which is managed by Kevin Shuss, recording engineer John Burton, and the band.

When asked about Pearl Jam's legacy in a 2000 interview, Vedder said: "I think at some point along the way we began feeling we wanted to give people something to believe in because we all had bands that gave that to us when we needed something to believe in. That was the big challenge for us after the first record and the response to it. The goal immediately became how do we continue to be musicians and grow and survive in view of all this... The answers weren't always easy, but I think we found a way." Their 1992 MTV Unplugged performance was ranked second in Rolling Stone's list of its 15 Best Episodes.

Campaigning and activism

Throughout its career, Pearl Jam has promoted wider social and political issues, from abortion rights sentiments to opposition to George W. Bush's presidency. Vedder acts as the band's spokesman on these issues. The band has promoted an array of causes, including awareness of Crohn's disease, which Mike McCready suffers from, Ticketmaster venue monopolization and the environment and wildlife protection, among others. Guitarist Stone Gossard has been active in environmental pursuits, and has been an advocate of Pearl Jam's carbon neutral policy, offsetting the band's environmental impact. Vedder has advocated for the release of the West Memphis 3 for years and Damien Echols, a member of the three, shares a writing credit for the song "Army Reserve" (from Pearl Jam).

The band, and especially frontman Eddie Vedder, have been vocal supporters of the abortion rights movement. In 1992, Spin printed an article by Vedder, titled "Reclamation", which detailed his views on abortion. In an MTV Unplugged concert the same year, Vedder stood on a stool and wrote "PRO-CHOICE!" on his arm in protest when the band performed the song "Porch". The band are members of a number of abortion rights organizations, including Choice USA and Voters for Choice.

As members of Rock the Vote and Vote for Change, the band has encouraged voter registration and participation in United States elections. Vedder was outspoken in support of Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader in 2000, and Pearl Jam played a series of concerts on the Vote for Change tour in October 2004, supporting the candidacy of John Kerry for U.S. president. In a Rolling Stone feature showcasing the Vote for Change tour's performers, Vedder told the magazine: "I supported Ralph Nader in 2000, but it's a time of crisis. We have to get a new administration."

In 2006, the members of Pearl Jam founded the non-profit organization Vitalogy Foundation. Named after their third studio album, the foundation supports non-profit organizations working in the fields of community health, the environment, arts, education and social change.

Vedder sometimes comments on politics between songs, often to criticize U.S. foreign policy, and a number of his songs, including "Bu$hleaguer" and "World Wide Suicide", are openly critical of the Bush administration. At Lollapalooza 2007, Vedder spoke out against BP Amoco dumping effluent in Lake Michigan, and at the end of "Daughter", he sang the lyrics "George Bush leave this world alone / George Bush find yourself another home". In the beginning of the second encore Vedder invited Iraq war veteran Tomas Young, the subject of the documentary Body of War, onto the stage to urge an end to the war. Young in turn introduced Ben Harper, who contributed vocals to "No More" and "Rockin' in the Free World". The band later discovered that some of the Bush-related lyrics were excised from the AT&T webcast of the event, and questioned whether that constitutes censorship. AT&T later apologized and blamed the censorship on contractor Davie Brown Entertainment.

Pearl Jam has performed numerous benefit concerts in aid of charities and causes. For example, the band headlined a Seattle concert in 2001 to support the United Nations' efforts to combat world hunger. The band added a date at the Chicago House of Blues to its 2005 tour to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina; the concert proceeds were donated to Habitat for Humanity, the American Red Cross and the Jazz Foundation of America.

In 2011, Pearl Jam was named 2011 Planet Defenders by Rock the Earth for their environmental activism and their large-scale efforts to decrease their own carbon emissions.

Pearl Jam supported the re-election efforts of Senator Jon Tester with concerts in Missoula, Montana during their 2012, 2018, and 2024 tours.

Band members

Current members

  • Eddie Vedder – lead vocals (1990–present), rhythm guitar (1993–present)
  • Jeff Ament – bass, backing vocals (1990–present), keyboards (2017–2020)
  • Stone Gossard – rhythm guitar, backing and occasional lead vocals (1990–present), lead guitar (1993–present), keyboards (1993–1996)
  • Mike McCready – lead guitar (1990–present), backing vocals (1993–1994, 2009–present)
  • Matt Cameron – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1998–present)

Current touring/session musicians

  • Boom Gaspar – keyboards, piano, organ (2002–present)
  • Josh Klinghoffer – additional guitars, percussion, keyboards, drums, backing vocals (2021–present)

Former members

Former touring musicians

Timeline

Discography

Main article: Pearl Jam discography

Tours

See also

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