Subject: Eddie Vedder

• Last Night: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers at Super Bowl XLII

  February 4, 2008

• Tom Petty Day, Part 2: TP&HB Videos

  August 29, 2008

• Letters

  January 13, 1994

• Rock and Roll Dream Team

  Forget the office-football draft, dude. Here's a far cooler way to waste your time and your employer's money.

  August 26, 2004

• Things That Make Us Feel Old: Pearl Jam Reissuing Ten Next Year

  In an announcement that will make many people's beards turn instantly gray, Pearl Jam is planning a re-release campaign in advance of the band's twentieth anniversary in 2011. The band's 1991 debut Ten is the first to get the treatment, due March 24. Yeah, that's right. Pearl Jam is almost 20. Eddie Vedder and the gang have been in our lives for two decades of Who-worshipping, flannel-waving, grunge-fathering rock. Ten still stands as the band's definitive statement; the

  December 11, 2008

• Celting Point

  March 3, 1994

• The Future of Rock and Roll

  June 15, 1995

• Rotations

  July 13, 1995

• Rotation

  August 22, 1996

• Rotation

  September 12, 1996

• Rooting Interest

  July 17, 1997

• Letters

  September 25, 1997

• Rotation

  February 5, 1998

• Rotation

  May 28, 1998

• Rotation

  December 24, 1998

• In The Dark

  January 21, 1999

• The Story of Los Volcanes and Neil Diamond

  February 5, 2009

• The Man Who

  Pearl Jam manager Kelly Curtis is the guy behind the guys

  April 12, 2001

• Stranded by Oscar: Into the Wild, Radiant City, SNL in the '80s: Lost and Found, The Love Boat: Season One, Volume One

  March 6, 2008

• Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

  Sending up the biopic, this film sells cheap laughs, lame cameos and lifeless Cox

  December 20, 2007

• Pro Athlete Musicians

  Athletes step off the field and into the studio

  November 29, 2007

• Sesame Street: Old School Volume 2, Chinatown: Special Collector's Edition, Sicko: Special Edition and Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who

  The Kids Were Alright

  November 8, 2007

• Into the Wild

  Sean Penn delivers a soulful road movie and refuses to define his subject

  October 4, 2007

• The '90s Continue Unabated At House Of Blues, Homeslice!

  Seriously, what's with the House of Blues downtown toying around with all our '90s modern rock nostalgia as of late? In the past eight months or so since the HOB has opened, the folks on Caroline have booked almost every quasi-major alt-rock band of the last decade, that has not died of an overdose or succumbed to early senility (cough, Courtney Love, cough). It was just last week that Gavin Rossdale of Bush trotted out his solo pony show to a packed crowd of aging Gen-Xers. Live came and pl

  June 3, 2009

• Kings of Leon

  With a No. 1 album in the UK, the Kings of Leon are all but exiled from Main Street, USA

  May 10, 2007

• Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza

  Here are a bunch of hilarious misheard lyrics. Now send us more.

  March 17, 2005

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  January 13, 2005

• Rogue Bosoms, Bouncing Booties and Pac-Man Raps

  Looking back on the '04

  December 23, 2004

• We're Not the World

  Morrissey tells America where it can shove its hamburger

  October 28, 2004

• Playbill

  October 14, 2004

• Use Your Illusion

  Velvet Revolver is the best hope in a dismal lot of Guns N' Roses substitutes

  June 17, 2004

• Messing with Texas

  Rockers bash Bush, with varying results

  January 15, 2004

• Cattle Call

  Boozing with a few aggrieved bad seeds at the American Idol audition

  August 21, 2003

• Ruffled Feathers

  The Dixie Chicks and other musicians are fighting for their rights -- and a bigger check

  February 7, 2002

• Sam I Slam

  Sean Penn plays retarded for Oscar, and audiences aren't rewarded

  January 24, 2002

• Rock and a Hard Place

  Music can free your soul, but can it spring the West Memphis Three?

  October 5, 2000

• Punk: The Final Frontier

  Hovercraft turns noise into -- ohmigod -- melody

  August 12, 1999

• Letters

  January 27, 1994

• End Game

  This is the way the year ends, this is the way the year ends, this is the way the year ends, not with a bang but a ... year-end roundup

  December 23, 1993

• Flannel File: Pearl Jam's Ten Redux

  In my last Flannel File entry, I asked if there was any file more flannel-y than that of Screaming Trees. Well, embarassingly enough, that rhetorical question has an answer: yes, and that file belongs to Pearl Jam. Let's step in the time machine and go way, way back to one month ago, March 2009, when Pearl Jam's debut album, Ten, was released in a new edition. It included not just the mandatory remastered version of the original LP, but, more curiously, a remixed version courtesy of Atlanta's Br

  April 27, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day One: Eddie Vedder Bangs Along With Kings Of Leon

  Rocks Off was making the death march out to his hotel and missed this piece of ACL history. This is Kings Of Leon being augmented by Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder on "Slow Nights, So Long". We should have a more detailed review of the boys' set in the morning time. Like in seven hours. Jesus, we need sleep. Kicking ourselves repeatedly for leaving the show early to hit up Whataburger is exhausting.

  October 3, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day One: Kings Of Leon Rage Against The Fame

  Photos by Mark C. Austin​Funny thing happened last night. It was the same thing that happened to U2 in 1987 in the wake of The Joshua Tree, and the same thing that killed Kurt Cobain in 1994. Fame has finally overtaken Kings Of Leon, leaving their core boots 'n flannel crowd in the proverbial pop culture dust. The even funnier thing is that KOL seems to see and are raging against it. It's not a bad thing when a band gets huge and finds themselves surrounded by new fans. Those are the things t

  October 3, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day Two: Phoenix, Robyn Hitchcock and Them Crooked Vultures

  Photo by Matthew Taplinger​The quality of the grass at ACL on Charles Attal's apparent birthday blow out (if projections for "Feliz Cumpleanos" were to be believed) was nothing to sniff at. The great lawn of Zilker Park was emerald and ready to absorb the dance steps of a sold-out crowd with happy feet. The air was redolent with killing kindness, which raised the question of just how family friendly Austin's premiere outdoor music fest really is. Phoenix showed the crowd that there's mor

  October 3, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day Three: Mud!

  Photo by Craig HlavatyNo, that is not Rocks Off.​At this point Rocks Off is so jaded from mud, rain, bro-dudes, and janky taxi-cab politics that Eddie Vedder himself could be standing before us and we wouldn't know him from Adam Lambert. As Willem Dafoe said in Platoon "The worm has turned for you, my friend."Yesterday was a barrage of little bitty stinging rain, big ol' fat rain, and sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. With the rain came mud, starting with sporadic

  October 4, 2009

• ACL Day Two: Deadheads Rejoice!

  Photos by Mark C. Austin​An unexpected guest showed up yesterday afternoon at the Austin Ventures Stage with Austin-by-way-of-Louisiana slide guitar hotshot Papa Mali. The Grateful Dead's Bill Kreutzman was backing up the dreadlocked Mali on drums.

  October 4, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day Three: Aftermath

  Photos by Mark C. AustinDavid Garza​So, what happens to freshly laid grass in a public park after a day full of rain and thousands of people walking back and forth across it at the same time? Well, as anyone who was present for Day Three of Austin City Limits Festival 2009 (ACL) could tell you, it turns into a big muddy, stinking, sloppy mess, one with the power to swallow shoes and small children whole. The stories from this day will mostly revolve around how people were able to survive

  October 5, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day Three: Pearl Jam With Special Guests Ben Harper and Perry Farrell

  Photos by Mark C. Austin​Pearl Jam closed out this year's ACL with aplomb, the audience stretching nearly the entire length of Zilker Park to see Eddie Vedder and the seminal band while nostalgically recalling large portions of the 1990s as songs like "Daughter" and "Evenflow" washed over the crowd. Halfway through the concert, Vedder brought Ben Harper -- who had earlier played to a packed crowd on the AMD Stage at 6 p.m. -- on stage for a rendition of "Alive." Pearl Jam further thrille

  October 5, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day Three: Spin the Black Circle

  Photos by Mark C. Austin​It only took one song in to Pearl Jam's Sunday night closing set at the Austin City Limits music festival for it to dawn on Rocks Off that for way too long this band has been forsaken by back-handed hipster discount and radio-influenced apathy. No band from the grunge-era is still honing their craft as well, and continues to thoughtfully subvert their own musical journey as much as Pearl Jam. Opening with "Why Go" from Ten, the band wasn't just firing on all cyli

  October 5, 2009

• While You Weren't Tweeting: What, No More ACL?!

  ​Whether you helped rip Zilker Park to shreds or you simply groaned inwardly (and rolled your eyes outwardly) every time someone gushed about Them Crooked Vultures, everyone's got their own brand of ACL war story to propagate. But since we know that you suckers actually ruined your Ferragamos just to get a glimpse of Eddie Vedder without a cell tower to tweet of, it's about time you return to the 21st century and find out what you missed on the internets. 'Cause no amount of Torchy's or H

  October 6, 2009

• Just When You Thought All the ACL Aftermath Was Over...

  Photos by Mark C. AustinKate Pierson of the B-52's​You could roam, as the B-52s put it during their early afternoon set Sunday on the AMD Stage. But as Mudstock 2009 came to a close (let the debate about the later-in-the-year dates begin) most members of the muddy-stocking clan were losing their lightness of step. Happy faces were still abundant, however, and the artists recognized that anybody willing to stick it out through the stench in the trenches deserved nothing less than the best. Spa

  October 7, 2009