There are many rumors surrounding how the trailblazing grunge rock band Pearl Jam got its name, but the truth is that it’s a lot simpler than most realize. Initially, before the band was renamed ...

Acclaimed for its memorable solo, some say that Mike McCready's guitar work on Pearl Jam's 'Alive' sounds awfully similar to ...

Pearl Jam in turn sang about political dissidents, kids shooting themselves in the classroom, and women trapped in bad relationships. In that respect (and many others), grunge represented an ...

“Black” is a standout grunge ballad from Pearl Jam’s legendary 1991 debut album Ten. The whole of that album was a huge success upon its release, and “Black” is just one of many songs ...

Although it was Nirva-na which first codified the grunge movement’s revolutionary spirit, it would be Pearl Jam among Seattle’s “Big Four” (rounded out by Soundgarden and Alice in Chains ...

Fans had called yearly interleague matchup between the Padres and Mariners the “Vedder Cup” as a nod to Pearl Jam frontman ...

Pearl Jam and Nirvana were famously embroiled in a feud…but how real was it? (Picture: Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images) The early 1990s saw the rise of grunge music ...

Corduroy” appears on Pearl Jam’s third LP, Vitalogy. The song marks Eddie Vedder’s reaction to how youth culture had been co-opted and commercialized. And the album carried similar themes of ...