The Set List

Eddie Vedder Goes Solo Again

Eddie Vedder will head out on a three-week solo tour beginning Aug. 1 in Boston and ending Aug. 22 in Chicago.Tickets go on sale July 11;a limited ticket pre-sale for current active members of Pearl Jam's Ten Club will begin at 9 a.m. PDT on July 7.
The dates:
 
1/2  Boston   Opera House   
4/5       New York  United Palace Theater
7  Newark   New Jersey Performing Arts Center
9  Montreal, QC  Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier/Place
12/13  Toronto, ON  Massey Hall   
16/17  Washington, DC  Warner Theatre 
19  Milwaukee  The Riverside Theater 
21/22  Chicago   Auditorium Theatre 

Pearl Jam Beefs Up Bootleg Delivery

Pearl Jam will expand their bootleg program for the upcoming 12-date tour to include physical CDs and mobile content. Digital downloads and burn-to-order CDs of the entire show will be available following each concert via the band's fan club, Ten Club, and three live tracks per show will be released following the show on V Cast Music phones, here and through Verizon Wireless.
Digital downloads of full Pearl Jam shows will be available for download two weeks after each concert in mp3 and FLAC formats. Price will be $9.99 (mp3) and $14.99 (FLAC) per show.
Pearl Jam is launching a new physical CD program for the tour, manufacturing CDs according to customer demand that will ship within three weeks of each show date. Price is $16.99/show and will be available exclusively through the band's website.
For the mobile phones, at each stop of the tour, Pearl Jam will provide three tracks mixed in real-time and released via Verizon Wireless' V Cast Music service or the concert site. Following each show, Verizon Wireless will offer one full-length track for free with two available for purchase. All three tracks will also be available for purchase as ringtones and ringback tones.
Since Pearl Jam started this program, more than 3.5 million bootlegs have been sold.

Eddie Vedder Debuts 'Wild' Songs

Eddie Vedder gave the first performance of his songs from Sean Penn's "Into the Wild" at a post-screening party Friday on the Paramount lot. Introduced by Penn and the film's star, Emile Hirsch, Vedder played the film's gem of a track, "Guaranteed," and followed with soundtrack tunes "No Ceiling," "Society"  and, on mandolin instead of acoustic guitar, "Rise."
He also offered up "Drifting," a song initially released only to Pearl Jam fan club members, that he said was a "Christopher McCandless kind of song," referring to the film's nomadic lead character.
He closed with a tune he cut for another Penn film, "I am Sam": The Beatles' "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away."