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Hear Pearl Jam Reissues, Casablancas Collabo

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  • Pearl Jam are offering up full streams of the expanded reissues of Vs. and Vitalogy, which include rarities and demos. Highlights: an early version of 1993’s “Nothingman” and a cover of Victoria Williams‘ “Crazy Mary,” originally featured on a ’93 charity album Sweet Relief. [Spinner]

  • Julian Casablancas of the Strokes has collaborated with Digitalism on a track titled “Forrest Gump” for the dance-rock duo’s new album, out in June. [NME]

  • Amazon has beat out Apple and Google by launching its own “cloud”-based music service, which allows users to purchase and store music in a “digital locker” and stream it from virtually anywhere. [Amazon]

  • Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy reveals that the group will perform their 2001 album Origin of Symmetry in its entirety at this year’s Reading and Leeds fests, August 26-28. [NME]

  • Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello will release his third album as The Nightwatchman this summer; the disc is titled The Fabled City. [Billboard]

  • Pete Doherty and Charlotte Gainsbourg have wrapped a new movie titled The Confession of a Child of the Century, a period drama based on the life of 19th century French writer Alfred de Musset. Check out pictures of the two on set here.