Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Pearl Jam is gearing up to drop a new album later this month, and the band ...

Pearl Jam has now earned 21 top 10 hits on the Alternative Airplay tally ... “Wreckage” dips to tenth place on the Hot Hard Rock Songs chart. On that list, it slips from fifth place, after ...

Eddie Vedder is officially transitioning into the role of rock's elder statesman. The Pearl Jam leader and occasional solo artist has performed such duties for quite some time, moving gracefully ...

Pearl Jam is one of the most successful American rock bands of the last quarter century, and arguably the definitive alternative rock band of the 1990s. Although it was Nirva-na which first ...

One of the great closing tracks in Pearl Jam history, "Setting Sun" slowly grows toward healing, with Vedder — per usual — never sounding a false note. His reading of the song's extended ...