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  See Pearl Jam Back Jay-Z on a Scorching '99 Problems'

  September 4, 2012 – At the tail end of their two-hour, festival-closing set Sunday night at Jay-Z's Made In America get-together, Pearl Jam launched into what set list-studying Ten Club nerds and casual fans would call an unlikely number: "W.M.A.," a saturnine, long-forgotten mid-record cut from 1993's Vs. …
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  Pearl Jam's Mike McCready and Matthew Lillard Have Big Plans for 'Fat Kid'

  August 15, 2012 – Last summer, actor Matthew Lillard, known for his work in '90s cinestaples like Scream and SLC Punk, tweeted the following: "Mike McCready of Pearl Jam is into scoring FAT KID RULES THE WORLD! …
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  West Memphis Three's Damien Echols on the Music Gave Him 'Life After Death'

  August 13, 2012 – Freed from death row after 18 years, the face of the West Memphis Three has written a book, Life After Death. Here's the soundtrack to his unusual life. Name a song you've listened to in the past 24 hours. "Tomorrow" by Ozzy [Osbourne], while I was on the treadmill. Every morning after I got out, I would watch Ozzy videos. The last album I'd heard was [1991's] No More Tears, so everything after that is new to me. …
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  Full Made In America Lineup Announced: Drake, Run-DMC, Chris Cornell Added

  July 31, 2012 – In the months since Jay-Z announced he would be curating the Made in America Festival in Philadelphia, which takes place Labor Day weekend and is intended to "embody the American spirit," he's put together an lineup as eclectic as America itself (or at least its hipper enclaves), including co-headliner Pearl Jam, Skrillex, Odd Future and more. …
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  How Pearl Jam Shaped the Gaslight Anthem's 'Handwritten'

  July 24, 2012 – Stories have endings. For Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon, Springsteen-esque tales of New Jersey dreamers was enough narrative grist for three exuberant, empathetic albums of chiming, propulsive rock'n'roll. It was not enough for a fourth. "I was out of ideas," says Fallon, speaking on the phone. "I'd said what I had to say. …
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  Jack White Declines to Join Tom Petty and Eddie Vedder's Superjam

  June 25, 2012 – Rockists in Amsterdam must be having a field day (though their wallets surely haven't) over the past few days, as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Pearl Jam's tours are currently dominating the city's major venues. …
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  Pearl Jam Associate Charged for Stealing $380K From Band

  June 20, 2012 – The ex-CFO of Pearl Jam's management company has been charged with 33 counts of theft, swindling the band out of $380,000 over a four-year period that ended with his firing nearly two years ago. According to SeattlePI (via the Hollywood Reporter), Seattle police say Rickey Charles Goodrich, whose alleged fraud began in 2006, is also accused of costing Curtis, Inc, over $566,000 as a result of the theft. …
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  Pearl Jam Attempt to Make Fans Pay Attention to Montana Election

  June 14, 2012 – While most stories involving musicians and politicians these days consist of the former telling the latter to go f—ind an attorney, with the campaign season revving up artists are declaring their loyalties. …
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  Pearl Jam Will Headline Jay-Z's Made in America Festival

  May 21, 2012 – Jay-Z wasn't kidding when he said his two-day, self-curated festival, Philadelphia's Budweiser-sponsored Made in America fest, would feature an eclectic mashup of artists. Today, co-headliners Pearl Jam (Jay is the other) spilled the beans on their Labor Day weekend plans — as well as those of other left-field acts like Passion Pit and Dirty Projectors — on their website (via Brooklyn Vegan). …
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  Watch Willie Nelson and Sons Cover Pearl Jam's 'Just Breathe'

  May 15, 2012 – As part of a performance for his Willie's Roadhouse channel on Sirius XM satellite radio yesterday (as well as on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon), Willie Nelson and his sons Lukas and Micah performed their glowing rendition of Pearl Jam's "Just Breathe," a fingerpicked, Vedder-penned tearjerker from 2009's Backspacer that also features prominently on Nelson's just released Heroes LP. …
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