New Pearl Jam This Fall
No longer with Sony, the band ties
in
with Target Pearl Jam will
release their new album, tentatively
titled Backspacer, early this
fall. Backspacer will be released through retail chain
Target.
Pearl Jam's deal with Target is non-exclusive, allowing the band to
also sell the album through a variety of other
distribution partners, including independent record stores and online
sites.
"We'll have a lot of partners," Pearl Jam's manager Kelly Curtis told Billboard.com. "Target ended up allowing us to have other partners.
We'll be able to take care of all levels of the Pearl Jam fan...Target
was cool enough to realize that little independent record stores are
not their competition." Backspacer would be for
sale via Ten Club, Pearl Jam's massive fan site.
Target's involvement with Pearl Jam became obvious when
the band was seen, by an invitation-only audience, at the filming of a
Target commercial at Seattle's Showbox Theatre with director Cameron
Crowe, with whom the band is also working with on a feature-length
documentary. The first
advance track from "Backspacer" will be released this summer, possibly
July.
Pearl Jam will undoubtedly be scheduling a full tour to support the new
project. Currently scheduled are two dates at United Center in
Chicago on August 23rd and 24th, followed by The Outside Lands Music
Festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on August 28th.
Pearl Jam will also appear at this year's Austin City Limits Music
Festival in October.
Finally, New Alice
In Chains The wait is almost
over, New Album due this fall
Alice In Chains has
long been rumored to be in the studio recording a new album. It's
even been talked about over the years by Jerry Cantrell. Jerry
has spoken of having an album's worth of songs ready to go. Then,
word came out that they were actually in the studio recording it.
But we waited...and waited. Now, again there's word the wait is
really, truly, inevitably...almost over.
Alice In Chains
finally have a record deal recently signed with EMI's Virgin Records,
William Duval
has replaced the late Layne Staley as lead vocalist, more than seven
years after his death and 14 years since their last record, 1995's
self-titled Alice in Chains.
Guitarist/vocalist
William DuVall, actually joined the original members of Alice In
Chains, Jerry Cantrell, Sean Kinney and
longtime bassist Mike Inez in 2006 and toured together as Alice In
Chains in 2007. DuVall comes from Atlanta's hardcore punk scene.
Beyond Sunny Days for Jeremy Enigk Sunny
Day Real Estate frontman releases third solo project
Former lead singer of
Sunny Day Real Estate and The Fire Theft, Jeremy
Enigk,
has already influenced an entire generation of songwriters. With
the release of his third solo album this spring, he opted for a
stripped down, acoustic sound yet still accompanied by the dramatic
crescendos he's best known for.
Even as rumors
continue to swirl around the Pacific Northwest of a possible Sunny Day
Real Estate reunion, Jeremy continues to expand and experiment with
different approaches to his music.
Jeremy Enigk's singing has had the remarkable quality of becoming more
nuanced with each album he records. It’s as if each of his life
experiences literally adds a new color to his voice. On his new
album, OK
Bear, he
reminds us once again why he is credited with influencing an entire
generation of song-writers.
- Excerpts used
from GirlieAction Press Release
A Fresh Flannel Sound TELEKINESIS!
Telekinesis is the project of Michael Benjamin Lerner. Michael recorded
Telekinesis! at Two Sticks Audio in Seattle with producer Chris Walla
(Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Tegan and Sara). . Michael wrote and
sang all of the songs and played nearly all of the instruments on the
album, but is currently on tour with a full band that includes David
Broecker
(guitar), Jonie Broecker (bass, keyboards), and Chris Staples (guitar).
Influenced both by the carefully constructed timeless pop of the 60s
and 70s and by the nonchalance and brevity of classic indie rock, Walla
and Lerner approached the recording of Telekinesis! with the goal that
each song's tracking and mixing would be done to analog tape in a
single day, and that they would never look back.
-Merge
Records
Press
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Buy the CD HERE!
Check Out The Video
TOKYO from the debut CD of TELEKINESIS!
Pearl Jam Re-Issues TEN
Four
Different Editions Are Available To Chose From: Legacy,
Deluxe, Collector's and Vinyl
Ten, the debut album that sold 12 million
copies
and introduced the world to Pearl Jam in 1991, has been reissued in
four new and expanded editions. The reissue of Ten serves as the
launch of a planned two-year catalogue re-release campaign leading up
to the band’s 20th anniversary in 2011.
Each Ten package will include two versions of the
album: the remastered version of the original album PLUS an
accompanying remixed version done by the band’s long-time producer,
Brendan O’Brien (Bruce Springsteen, AC/DC, Audioslave). Details on
specific extras for each of the four packages are listed below.
"The band loved the original mix of Ten, but were
also interested in what it would sound like if I were to deconstruct
and remix it," says producer Brendan O’Brien. "The original Ten sound
is what millions of people bought, dug and loved, so I was initially
hesitant to mess around with that. After years of persistent nudging
from the band, I was able to wrap my head around the idea of offering
it as a companion piece to the original – giving a fresh take on it, a
more direct sound." - Excerpts from Pearl Jam FanClub
.In This Issue
* New Pearl Jam, no longer with Sony
Music, comes out this fall.
* Finally, New Alice
In Chains to be released this fall.
* Former Sunny Day
Real Estate frontman, Jeremy Enigk, releases his third solo project.
*
Check out an awesome fresh flannel sound from Telekinesis!
* Information on
the special re-issue of Pearl Jam's TEN.
*N.W.
Radio Stations
Streamed including the HD-2 Stream of "The Sound" featuring NW
Music.
* Over 70 Northwest
Artists Bios &
Discographies.
. JEFF AMENT
“Tone”
features ten original tracks by Pearl Jam's bassist, Jeff
Ament, culled from
more than fifty-plus “works in progress.” Penned over the last eight
years, the final collection offers a look into Ament's world of early
life in Montana and how it has shaped his music.
Much
like Jeff's own life story, “TONE” tells the tale of a group of
characters from a small town in Montana and their slow integration into
life in the big city. The album
emerged from his desire to
take care of “unfinished business;” taking the original works and
paring them down to a batch of like-minded and introspective songs.
Jeff Ament was also the victim of a
recent mugging. Video
STONE
GOSSARD released several new
live and studio tracks available watch and listen from Pearl
Jam's website. "Haiti" can be found along
with a new
video of his live cover of Prince's "1999".
These tracks are available
alongside previously released live and studio tracks of Stone Gossard's
new songs, "Your
Flames" and "Little
One."
CHRIS
CORNELL
worked on his latest project, "Scream",
with the noted hip- hop producer Timbaland.
Both are calling the album some of the best work they have
done. The new project was
officially released in March 2009. If you're looking
for classic Cornell...this is not it. This is a break from the
past, in quite a major way. MORE
MUDHONEY
released their latest project "The
Lucky
Ones" in May 2008, it pounds out a chronic
bottom-end rumble reflecting the intensity that the band still can
thrust out.
THE MELVINS
Their project "Nude With
Boots" from last summer, 2008, was recorded in Hollywood in just
a couple of weeks
time. The band has been together for 24 years.
CANDLEBOX
released their new album, "Into
The Sun", last summer and unfortunately for the band it went
unrecognized.
THE PRESIDENTS
present us with their fifth album, "These
Are The Good Times People".