pearl jam May 16, 2011

Ten turns 20 in August and Pearl Jam are celebrating with their own festival-type thing over Labor Day weekend. The celebration will be headlined by the host band of course (it's PJ's only US performance in 2011), and as support they've lined up the. CHICAGO Pearl Jam is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year with a flourish: a Cameron Crowe-directed documentary; reissues of its 1993 and '94 albums Vs. and Vitalogy; and a forthcoming festival at an. Pearl Jam fans are way ahead of me on this one, but it's still fun to spread good news. A new documentary on the Seattle band's 20-year history by Almost Famous director and writer Cameron Crowe is scheduled for release in September.. When Eddie Vedder, the reclusive, notoriously angry lead singer of grunge-band Pearl Jam, announced his latest album in March, the headline read like something from The Onion: Eddie Vedder to release solo album of ukulele songs. It wasn'ta joke.. Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam performs during day 1 of the Hard Rock Calling festival held in Hyde Park on June 25, 2010, in London. (CBS) There's no doubt that Grammy-winning Pearl Jam rocks the earth with its chart-topping music, but now the band is. Pearl Jam have been close with director Cameron Crowe for years (they even appeared in his 1992 movie Singles), and as part of their year-long 20th anniversary celebrationwhich also includes the release of deluxe reissues of Vs. and. Grammy-award winning band Pearl Jam, environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Josh Fox, the Director of the Academy Award nominee documentary Gasland, were selected as the winners in three categories. Planet Defender recipients are nominated by. He's been working simultaneously on his adaptation of We Bought a Zoo starring Matt Damon (filming just wrapped), the Elton John/Leon Russell documentary The Union (which just premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival), and the Pearl Jam documentary Pearl. Still, with singer Chris Cornell pursuing an intermittent solo career and drummer Matt Cameron firmly ensconced in Pearl Jam, any chance of a reunion by one of the biggest bands of the 1990s \"grunge\" era seemed remote. Cornell inadvertently dropped the. He's just wrapped three films almost simultaneously: an Elton John/Leon Russell documentary called The Union, a Matt Damon feature called We Bought a Zoo and a Pearl Jam doc called Pearl Jam Twenty. \"I'm going by the Scorsese grid,\" Crowe told Rolling.