The Voodoo Music Experience returns to New Orleans this November for three days of diverse musical performances. Voodoo ’13 will take place in The Crescent City’s City Park from November 1 to 3. Fuse has just revealed 15 acts set to play the event including Pearl Jam and Nine Inch Nails.

Calvin Harris, Paramore, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Bassnectar, Big Gigantic, Afrojack, Boys Noise, The Gaslight Anthem, How To Destroy Angels, Cults, Alkaline Trio, Desaparecidos and Robert Delong are the other bands Fuse has announced. This will mark Pearl Jam’s first time headlining the Voodoo Music Experience. Here’s the 15 bands announced thus far…

Pearl Jam
Nine Inch Nails
Calvin Harris
Bassnectar
Paramore
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
Afrojack
Boys Noize
The Gaslight Anthem
Big Gigantic
How To Destroy Angels
Cults
Alkaline Trio
Desaparecidos
Robert Delong

Weekend credentials are currently available for $175 through the event’s website.

Legendary rockers Pearl Jam recently headed down to South America for three headlining appearances at festivals in Brazil, Argentina and Chile. All three performances were either streamed or broadcast live which in this day and age means the videos are uploaded to YouTube with a quickness. We’ve compiled full-show, professionally-shot videos of Pearl Jam’s headlining sets at Lollapalooza Brasil, Pepsi Music Buenos Aires and Lollapalooza Chile for your viewing pleasure.

3/31: Pearl Jam @ Lollapalooza Brasil

1- 0:00:29 Elderly Woman 2- 0:04:06 Why Go 3- 0:07:16 Interstellar Overdrive (Pink Floyd cover) 4-  0:08:03 Corduroy 5- 0:13:12 Comatose 6- 0:16:16 Olé 7- 0:18:26 Do the Evolution 8- 0:22:08 Wishlist 9- 0:27:16 Got Some 10- 0:30:32 Even Flow 11- 0:37:13 Nothingman 12-0:41:35 Insignificance 13- 0:46:51 Daughter 14- 0:52:29 World Wide Suicide 15- 0:56:54Jeremy 16- 1:01:41 Unthought Known 17- 1:05:43 State of Love and Trust 18- 1:09:08 Rearviewmirror Encore: 19- 1:18:54 Given to Fly 20- 1:22:13 Not for You 21- 1:29:40 Better Man 22- 1:37:02 Black 23- 1:46:09 I Believe in Miracles (Ramones cover) 24- 1:49:29 Go 25- 1:52:13 Alive 26- 1:58:23 Baba O’Riley (The Who cover) 27- 2:03:58 Yellow Ledbetter

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Seattle rockers Pearl Jam returned to the stage for the first time in 2013 last night at the Jockey Club in Sao Paolo, Brazil as one of the headliners of Lollapalooza Brasil. For their first performance of the year Pearl Jam focused on material from the ’90s and mixed in covers by the likes of The Ramones, The Who and Pink Floyd among the 27 songs they played.

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While it’s no secret the band is currently in the midst of recording a new album, they did not debut any material last night. Watch the band perform Even Flow at Lollapalooza Brasil…

Here’s the extended setlist with notes from the PearlJam.com forum…

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The 28th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place in Los Angeles on April 18th. We already knew that John Mayer and Gary Clark Jr. will perform for Albert King following Mayer’s induction speech for the blues great, The Eagles’ Don Henley will induct Randy Newman, singers Christina Aguilera and Jennifer Hudson will honor the late Donna Summer by performing on her behalf and Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins will induct Canadian prog-rockers Rush. Today, a bevy of additional performers have been announced.

Mike McCready, guitarist for Pearl Jam, will team up with Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell to perform with Rock Hall inductees Heart. Usher will honor Quincy Jones with a performance. Director Spike Lee and musical legend Harry Belafonte will pay tribute to Public Enemy. Singer Carole King will perform for Lou Adler, Soundgarden’s  Chris Cornell will induct Heart, Cheech & Chong will present Adler with his award, while Jackson Browne and John Fogerty will perform with Randy Newman.

Those of us who can’t attend in person will have to wait a month to see the festivities as HBO will air the induction ceremonies on Saturday, May 18 at 9PM ET/PT.

Longtime Cubs fan Eddie Vedder will get the thrill of a lifetime on July 19th when Pearl Jam finally makes their Wrigley Field debut in Chicago. The once rumored show is now officially on the books with tickets set to go on sale February 9th at 10AM local time at Tickets.com.

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Vedder, who was born in the Chicago suburb of Evanston and spent his elementary school days in the area before his family moved to San Diego, even recorded a song called All The Way as a tribute to his beloved Cubbies. Pearl Jam has a long history of gigs in Chicago which we detailed for Venue Segues in October ’11. Pearl Jam also announced a July 16th gig in London, Ontario today.

Both dates feature no opening acts. Pearl Jam will announce a U.S. Fall Tour in the coming months.

Towards the end of Pearl Jam’s marathon set at Prague’s 02 Arena on July 2, 2012; the group’s front man Eddie Vedder told the Czech audience they were one of the best crowds of the tour “no bullshit.” Vedder and the band returned the favor by delivering a relentless performance that focused on their harder-edged material.

A group of fans who go by the name “Blink Eye Productions” created an incredible document of the show thanks to their hi-def camera and the use of a crystal-clear soundtrack. Check it out…

Pearl Jam – July 2, 2012

Set: Sometimes, Animal, Given To Fly, Got Some, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Gods’ Dice, The Fixer, I Am Mine, Corduroy, Even Flow, Setting Forth, Not For You, Push Me, Pull Me, Garden, 1/2 Full, Unthought Known, Wasted Reprise, Life Wasted, Why Go

Encore: Of The Girl, Just Breathe, Crazy Mary, Once, Do The Evolution

Encore2: World Wide Suicide, Better Man, Black, Alive, Baba O’Riley, Yellow Ledbetter

When the initial schedule for the first few months of concerts at the newly-reopened Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York was announced the Steve Miller Band was set to play there on New Year’s Eve. Apparently there’s been a change in plans as that show has been cancelled and been replaced by a funkier option. The Funky Meters will headline The Cap on New Year’s Eve with Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk set to open. Tickets will run $90 and $45 and will go on sale soon. And of course this news comes out just minutes after we posted our 2012-2013 New Year’s Eve Concert Guide.

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When your band already has a channel solely dedicated to them on SiriusXM it’s probably easy to arrange hosting your own show on it. Yesterday on Pearl Jam Radio, PJ lead singer Eddie Vedder did just that, when he premiered the very appropriately titled The Eddie Vedder Radio Show. The limited run show will feature Vedder’s “favorite songs, from early punk rock influences to unreleased material from his personal archives,” as well as “personal stories about his career in rock music.”

Earlier this year Willie Nelson put out a riveting cover of Just Breathe by Pearl Jam that featured his son Lukas. The younger Nelson has been making quite a name for himself hitting the road hard with his Promise of the Real outfit. On Tuesday night Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real played at WoW Hall in Eugene, Oregon; where Nelson treated the crowd to a different Pearl Jam cover. Lukas sure sounds like his dad as he performs Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town. Check out Phishbeard of the Concert Confessions team’s video of the cover…

Lukas Nelson – Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town

We did it, the work week is nearly over and the weekend is upon us. With that in mind, it’s time for Full Show Friday in which we give you a full set to watch while you wrap up the week at work. This week’s set comes from the first night of Pearl Jam’s 2001 appearance at The Bridge School Benefit.

Eddie Vedder and Co. honored the event’s acoustic nature by going unplugged for their sets. This 55-minute performance, filmed at Shoreline Amphitheatre on October 20th, 2001 saw the group offer a mix of covers such as John Lennon’s Gimme Some Truth and Victoria Williams’ Crazy Mary and more mellow originals including Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Daughter and Better Man. Ben Harper even stops by towards the end of the set to help out on Indifference. Take a look…

Pearl Jam – Bridge School Benefit 2001

Set: Long Road, Of The Girl, Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town, Last Solider, Daughter, Better Man, Driftin’, Crazy Mary, Gimme Some Truth, Indifference (w/ Ben Harper), Last Kiss

The hip-hop and rock worlds collided head on last night in Philadelphia at the Made In America Festival, when festival curator Jay-Z sat in with legendary Seattle band Pearl Jam on the rapper’s 99 Problems. The guest spot was part of Pearl Jam’s encore at the end of their headlining set. That wasn’t the first time Hova delivered 99 Problems while fronting a rock band as he performed that trick in his home borough of Brooklyn with Phish on June 18, 2004. Take a look at last night’s take…

Jay-Z and Pearl Jam – 99 Problems

[via CoS]

Pearl Jam, who have released live recordings of most shows dating back to 2000, have teamed up with nugs.net to release every performance from the Seattle rockers’ recent 14-show European Tour through nugs’ LiveDownloads.com portal in a number of formats (CD, MP3, FLAC, ALAC, FLAC-HD and ALAC-HD). Each multi-track recording was mixed by longtime Pearl Jam recording engineer Brett Eliason and have been mastered for CD. For audiophiles, the FLAC-HD and ALAC-HD files are sourced from uncompressed, non-limited 24 bit / 96KHz mixes.

The band will unveil one show each week following yesterday’s release of the first Pearl Jam show of 2012 from the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England on both LiveDownloads.com and PearlJam.com. Also, look for goodies from Pearl Jam’s archives to appear on both sites in the coming months. Pearl Jam has three U.S. festival appearances (Made In America, DeLuna and Music Midtown) as well as a headlining show in Missoula, Montana scheduled for September.

Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder has made no secret of his appreciation for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers over the years. In the most-excellent documentary Running Down A Dream, Vedder discusses the first time he heard The Waiting and how much that song means to him. Last night in Amsterdam Vedder made the most of an off night from his band’s tour to sit-in with Petty and his group at the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam.

The first song Eddie sat in on was The Waiting in which the grunge rocker handled most of the vocals.

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers w. Eddie Vedder – The Waiting

Vedder and Petty split vocal duties on American Girl later in the show…

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After a seven month break from touring Seattle grunge pioneers Pearl Jam returned to the road last night at Manchester Evening News Arena in Manchester, England for the first show of their European Tour. The group mixed tracks from eight of their studio albums with three covers during the 26-song, banter-filled performance.

After taking the stage to a pre-recorded version of Metamorphosis 2 by Philip Glass, Pearl Jam opened with Release and followed the Ten track up with Do The Evolution. One of the first surprises of the night came in the seventh slot as the group performed the Jeff Ament-penned Pilate which was last played in Europe 12 years ago to the day. Later in the main set, Pearl Jam debuted Why Can’t I Touch It?, a Buzzcocks cover from the British punk band’s Singles Going Steady LP.

Following a take on Joe Strummer’s Arms Aloft, Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder discussed what a great human being and musician Strummer was which led into the singer’s take on the Radiohead stage collapse. Vedder mentioned that the band’s crew was as close to them as their families, so he could only imagine what Radiohead was going through having lost a member of their “family.” The 10-song encore concluded with a cover of Neil Young’s Rockin’ In The Free World that saw John Doe from opening act X play tambourine and help with backing vocals.

Check out last night’s setlist…

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Pearl Jam returns to the Manchester Evening News Arena tonight.

For a good stretch in the mid-aughts it seemed as if Ryan Adams was putting out a new record just about every few months. After stepping out of the spotlight for a handful of years, due to his struggles with an inner ear disorder, the prolific singer-songwriter returned in 2011 with the release with the highly recommended Ashes & Fire, an album he described as being full of  “elegant country-rock songs.” Tomorrow, Adams will get back to his old over-sharing ways as he will release Life After Deaf, a monster 15 LP vinyl-only box set. Yes, you read that right – 15 LPs.

According to our friends at CoS, “the set will feature will 144 tracks of Adams’ acoustic perfomances pressed on 15 LPs, as well a download card featuring all 144 tracks plus an additional 74 digital-only bonus tracks,” for a grand total of 218 tracks. The limited-edition set will go on sale tomorrow, via Adams’ webstore, at 1:30 PM EDT.

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Finally, Pearl Jam is teaming up with Montana Democratic Senator Jon Tester for a pretty inventive concert giveaway for their September 30 gig, with Mudhoney, at the Adams Center in Missoula, Montana. The influential grunge-rock act will raffle off a prize pack that features round-trip travel and hotel accommodations, VIP passes to the show, where you’ll be sitting on the stage in reclining seats. And if that’s not enough you will also get to have dinner with the Senator and Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament. Any contributor to the Senator’s campaign will be automatically entered to win.

Today’s video features Pearl Jam having a blast on stage from their 2003 DVD Live at the Garden as they revel in a big rendition of Baba O’Riley. I always enjoy hearing Pearl Jam play The Who classic during their later years, because I  used to have a bootleg a million years ago where they covered the song before anyone in the band even knew how to play the intro. They’ve certainly come a long way since the early days in their Pete Townshend tributes.