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Eddie Vedder

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    Top 10 best grunge songs

    With Saint Kurt gone for 18 years now, it's important to remember grunge wasn't just Nirvana. It was a movement, and though each year it seems a little bit sillier than it did the last, it was important. Most of the bands (and sadly many of the people themselves) didn't stand the test of time, some ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    Five identity crisis songs: Danny Brown, Garbage, & more

    ​This week's edition of 5ingles spotlights songs by artists who seem to be undergoing an identity crisis -- musicians who aren't quite themselves, who apparently woke up a bit off of their game. So these five tunes sound sort of like what you've come to expect from their creators, but not quite, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    Cass McCombs Band at the Entry, 02/01/12

    ​Cass McCombs BandWith Frank Fairfield7th St. Entry, MinneapolisWednesday, February 1, 2012In a torn flannel shirt over a henley, comfortably worn jeans, and Dr. Marten boots, Cass McCombs looks a lot like a mechanic lately. (Or Eddie Vedder, circa. 1991.) But it's an appropriate guise for a man c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2011

    PJ20 with Pearl Jam, Queens of the Stone Age, the Strokes and more at Alpine Valley, 9/3/11

    Photos by Nick Wosika​Pearl Jam September 3, 2011 Alpine Valley Music Theater Pearl Jam kind of painted themselves into a corner with this one. The band that rose from the ashes of Mother Love Bone spent their first few years as the biggest band on the planet (their sophomore release Vs. broke re ... More >>

  • News

    August 31, 2011

    Bon Iver isn't afraid to be beautiful

    Justin Vernon is headed for the mainstream with his new LP

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    With the Current's ratings reportedly 'soaring,' what does that mean for Minnesota music?

    Photo by Jayme Halbritter for City PagesThe Current's program manager Jim McGuinn​Though this won't come as a surprise to anyone who's seen a Current-sponsored show sell out in a heartflutter or watched them dominate the "indie" music scene in the Twin Cities, a recent report has shown that the st ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Eddie Vedder and Glen Hansard at the Orpheum Theater, 07/02/11

    Photos by Jon Behm​Eddie Vedder and Glen Hansard July 2, 2011Orpheum TheaterEddie Vedder's stated goal in picking up the ukulele over a decade ago was to make that happy little instrument sound as sad as he was. And while there certainly was plenty of sorrow imbued in Vedder's songs Saturday ni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2011

    Weekend Checklist: Eddie Vedder, Black Keys, Jason Mraz, Noah Hoehn

    ​"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."-Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes)

  • Music

    June 29, 2011

    Eddie Vedder, the Black Keys, the Monkees, and more

    ​"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."-Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes)

  • Calendar

    June 29, 2011

    Eddie Vedder

    ​"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."-Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes)

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    Ask the Critic: A 40th birthday and the Eddie Vedder ukulele tour

    ​We're headed to Minneapolis for the 4th of July weekend to celebrate a 40th birthday and to see the Eddie Vedder Ukulele tour (kinda random, but we are!). Any good restaurant recommendations? Would be great if there was something really special for the birthday, but also just any great, local ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    Eddie Vedder and Glen Hansard coming to the Orpheum

    ​Two critically acclaimed frontmen from divergent rock backgrounds will converge to play solo sets at the Orphuem on July 2: Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, who is touring in support of his new solo album, plus the Swell Season and the Frames' Glen Hansard (perhaps best known to mainstream audiences for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2010

    The Week That Was: Jacko posthumous, Girl Talk is back, spectre of Cher somehow inescapable

    ​We adjusted the clocks. We became a little leerier about dropping by UPS and Fed-Ex locations. We got a little more excited about Jay-Z's Decoded. We got all indignant about Wal-Mart playing "Little Drummer Boy" over the PA system. We bundled up, shivered. This is the first week of November, as r ... More >>

  • Music

    September 9, 2009

    The Songs We Can't Escape

    ​We adjusted the clocks. We became a little leerier about dropping by UPS and Fed-Ex locations. We got a little more excited about Jay-Z's Decoded. We got all indignant about Wal-Mart playing "Little Drummer Boy" over the PA system. We bundled up, shivered. This is the first week of November, as r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2009

    Smashing Pumpkins rob cradle with 19 year old drummer

    Vampiric Billy Corgan finds young, nubile host creature in 19 year old drummer Mike Byrne.

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2009

    The Popstream: Al Green, "Tired of Being Alone" (live on Soul Train)

    Everything sublime and ridiculous about the 1970s, summed up in two and a half minutes.

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2009

    Gimme News Weekly Wrap-Up: Jan. 30-Feb. 5, 2009

    New Brother Ali, Baby Guts and Gospel Gossip in the news and next week's new releases including Lily Allen & Dan Auerbach

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    Scott Weiland comes to town solo

    Ex-Stone Temple Pilots/Velvet Revolver frontman tests his own mettle.

  • Calendar

    November 5, 2008

    Wintersleep

    Ex-Stone Temple Pilots/Velvet Revolver frontman tests his own mettle.

  • Music

    November 5, 2008

    Tom Morello, Uh Huh Her, and more

    Ex-Stone Temple Pilots/Velvet Revolver frontman tests his own mettle.

  • Music

    September 24, 2008

    Kings of Leon: Only by the Night

    Ex-Stone Temple Pilots/Velvet Revolver frontman tests his own mettle.

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2008

    Nader - Kilmer 2008!

    Ex-Stone Temple Pilots/Velvet Revolver frontman tests his own mettle.

  • Movies

    May 14, 2008

    Film Highlight: Body of War

    Ex-Stone Temple Pilots/Velvet Revolver frontman tests his own mettle.

  • Columns

    March 5, 2008

    Oscar-Starved

    Ex-Stone Temple Pilots/Velvet Revolver frontman tests his own mettle.

  • Music

    December 5, 2007

    5ingles

    The songs we can't escape

  • Movies

    September 26, 2007

    Wide-Open Spaces

    Director Sean Penn Delivers a Soulful Road Movie About a Young Man's Tragic Adventure Into the Alaskan Wilderness

  • Sports

    May 3, 2006

    Blame Dick Clark

    'TRL' feeds thin gruel to its audience; kids beg for more

  • News

    November 9, 2005

    Finding My Religion

    What's a lapsed-Catholic former sex worker who doesn't like religious dogma to do when she finds out she still believes?

  • Music

    December 24, 2003

    Merry Christmas, Suckers!

    Five crappy best-ofs, one preachy live disc, and a partridge in a pear tree

  • Music

    August 6, 2003

    Real Life Rock Top 10

    Pearl Jam goes on hunger strike, JFK buys you a spaghetti dinner, and Jeff Bridges asks Bob Dylan to swallow his pride

  • Music

    March 6, 2002

    Local H: Here Comes the Zoo

    Pearl Jam goes on hunger strike, JFK buys you a spaghetti dinner, and Jeff Bridges asks Bob Dylan to swallow his pride

  • Music

    September 27, 2000

    The Candidate

    Two years after topping polls as a live local favorite, Mason Jennings recasts his tunes in a political key

  • Movies

    July 15, 1998

    Beautiful Losers

    Two years after topping polls as a live local favorite, Mason Jennings recasts his tunes in a political key

  • Music

    June 24, 1998

    The Game of Eightball

    Two years after topping polls as a live local favorite, Mason Jennings recasts his tunes in a political key

  • Music

    March 25, 1998

    The Wedding Album

    An Herbalized Rickie Lee Jones?: Victoria Williams finds hippie bliss on her new album Musings of a Creekdipper.

  • Feature

    March 11, 1998

    TAPPING INTO METAL

    Passion Play: Rocker Dan Cleveland has "an overwhelming personality" in the local rock-doc parody Driver 23.

  • Music

    March 4, 1998

    I'm a Believer

    Enchanted, Not Slanted: Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is one of the best indie-rock albums in years.

  • Arts

    April 2, 1997

    Enraged and In Love

    Sleater-Kinney and the dichotomies of rock & roll

  • Movies

    December 4, 1996

    Seattle Supersonics

    Sleater-Kinney and the dichotomies of rock & roll

  • Music

    November 6, 1996

    MUSIC NOTES

    TROPICALS' HOT DOG NIGHT

  • Music

    June 19, 1996

    A GOOD BLOWFISH IS HARD TO FIND

    TROPICALS' HOT DOG NIGHT

  • News

    December 27, 1995

    Artists of the Year

    Makers who mattered in 1995

  • Music

    November 8, 1995

    Wes' Side Stories

    Makers who mattered in 1995

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