Mike McCready is mourning the loss of Kiss‘s Ace Frehley after news of his death on Thursday, Oct. 16. In a social media post shared by both Pearl Jam and McCready, the musician reflected on how Frehley forever changed his life and inspired him to pick up a guitar. McCready …
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When Amanda Knox was locked away in an Italian prison in 2007 for a murder she didn’t commit, she’d find solace in singing. “Most of the people in prison knew my voice before they knew who I was,” she says; she favored sad songs by folks like Joanna Newsom and …
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Pearl Jam have released a new single, “Dark Matter.” The rousing, guitar-heavy track is the title track and first listen off the rock band’s forthcoming 12th LP, out April 19 via Monkeywrench/Republic. Dark Matter, a follow-up to 2020’s Gigaton, was produced Andrew Watt at Rick Rubin‘s Shangri-La studio in Malibu. …
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Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready is transforming the tragedies and triumphs of the Seattle grunge scene into a new rock opera, the guitarist told Guitar World magazine. McCready offered the first taste of the project just last month when he shared a live performance of a new song, “Crying Moon,” which …
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Back in 2022, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit welcomed Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready to the stage of the Paramount Theatre in Seattle to cover, fittingly, Jimi Hendrix’s “Little Wing.” Earlier this week, Isbell and McCready reunited once again in the Emerald City, this time to jam out on an …
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