The Latest Breaking News from Pearl Jam

"He didn’t ask for a receipt or nothing, just sent a cheque for ten grand and said, 'Sorry about that'". The grunge icons who ripped off an 80s classic - only to get busted when they hit the studio with the guy who wrote the original

Well and truly rumbled, they fessed up - and the original writer didn't even mind that much

Louder · Oct 9, 2025

“I don’t know too many people that could have handled that pressure coming at you at such speed. It can be a deadly thing”: How grunge’s ‘worst’ band wrote the hit song that silenced the critics

It was written on a $25 guitar and became one of the biggest hits of 1994

Metal Hammer · Oct 5, 2025

Watch Eddie Vedder join Tedeschi Trucks Band for blistering cover of The Seeker by The Who

The collaboration took place at Vedder's annual Ohana Festival in California

Louder · Sep 28, 2025

"You are a disrespectful dirtbag!" Kelly Osbourne furiously fires back at WWE and Becky Lynch following controversial Ozzy Osbourne promo line in Birmingham

Ozzy Osbourne's daughter was not impressed by the mention of her father during a controversial Becky Lynch promo on last night's Raw

Metal Hammer · Aug 26, 2025

“He doesn’t want it to be a hang-on-the-wall trophy piece. He wants it to be played”: Eddie Vedder and Fender have designed a new custom Telecaster – and it’s a trophy for a baseball tournament

This year, Major League Baseball made “The Vedder Cup” official – and honored the Pearl Jam icon who inspired the name by awarding the winning team a guitar trophy

Guitar World · Aug 26, 2025

Actress Zoe Kravitz has told Austin Butler what she reckons is the true meaning of Pearl Jam's name, and he looks pretty shocked

Pearl Jam is what? Come again?

Louder · Aug 21, 2025

From Freakier Friday's Pink Slip to Spinal Tap: The best fictional movie bands

As pop-punkers Pink Slip return for 'Freakier Friday', we reflect on the other fictional bands that rocked, rebelled, and reeled movie magic up to eleven.

Euronews · Aug 12, 2025

"My whole life I've felt like an outsider": Connor Selby on turning negatives into positives

Connor Selby is seen mostly as a blueser, but there’s much more to the multiple award-winning singer/songwriter than that

Louder · Aug 12, 2025

“He picks his tools up and strikes the living crap out of himself with them. There was blood flying everywhere”: How a street musician who played with Frank Zappa inspired one of grunge’s greatest songs

Inspiration came from an unlikely place for one of the biggest 90s grunge hits

Louder · Aug 2, 2025

“It’s very Spinal Tap of us to have this many drummers”: With Matt Cameron now added to the list, here’s a reminder of all the drummers Pearl Jam have had and lost…

The former Soundgarden man joins a lengthy list of ex-members who’ve drummed for the grunge titans... and now no longer drum for the grunge titans.

Louder · Jul 20, 2025