Doesn’t really matter if you’re a Cubbies fan (Down to the Nationals at home? Really?!) or even a Pearl Jam cultist, the included trilogy of YouTube nuggets should give you an awfully nice midday respite from all things work. Vedder sounds like he’s battling a cold when he takes on “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”, but that baseball chatter married to his soothing baritone is a lot like hot stone massage. Or maybe wearing a comfy robe. We’ll get back to you on that one.

It’s been a week of early 90s Grunge flashbacks; to the sweet days when an old flannel, ripped up jeans, and unruly hair was our daily-do, and Eddie Vedder was our idea of a golden-grunge god. (Ok, ok maybe we never got the memo to retire our flannel, or buy a hairbrush when the millennium hit, but really can you blame us?) At least we’ve been able to catch a ride on the Seattle-nostalgia-bandwagon this week, with the recent reissue of Pearl Jam’s Ten, just 18 years after it’s original release– and yes, we can’t believe it’s been that long either. In lieu of it all, we’ve decided to bring you back to the days when all you wanted to do was move to Seattle and play in a garage band, and “Jeremy” became one of the most controversial videos to hit the MTV airwaves.
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It already seemed like just about nobody was happy about the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger, except Ticketmaster and Live Nation. But now the newly formed Live Nation Entertainment Inc. is facing a lawsuit filed by its shareholders, who ain’t too happy, either.
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For their ninth studio album, Seattle’s grunge-gods Pearl Jam are changing things up a bit. Piggybacking off the success of other aging superstars like Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead, the veterans of rock will be self-releasing their next studio album.
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One thing that tends to happen during times of financial crises is large companies will merge. This helps stabilize all parties involved by, in essence, eliminating the competition. But with new reports of a Live Nation and Ticketmaster merger, experts and industry insiders are wondering if a review by antitrust authorities is needed. Looks like you can take the Live Nation our of Clear Channel, but you can’t take the Clear Channel out of Live Nation.
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