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Pearl Jam has unveiled plans for a two-month-long European tour set for the summer of 2012.
The main live event for Pearl Jam's year-long 20-year anniversary celebration will be a Labor Day weekend concert at Alpine Valley Music Center in East Troy, WI.
A week after indie-rock stalwarts Cake shocked the world by having a No. 1 album, in comes Portland, OR's the Decemberists atop the nation's album sales chart. "The King is Dead," the Decemberists' sixth album, sold a healthy 94,000 copies to take the pole position, according to figures compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.
Pearl Jam plans to celebrate the band's 20th anniversary by curating a music festival next summer.
Pearl Jam, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary as a band, will kick off the new year with the release of a new live compilation album.
The 24th installment of Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit took place over a fairly wet NorCal weekend (10/23-24), but crowds decked out in plastic ponchos and raincoats of all colors still turned up in droves.
Grunge mainstays Pearl Jam are coming up on the 20th anniversary of their first gig, but don't look for them to mark the occasion with a lot of fanfare.
At the end of every Pearl Jam tour, Eddie Vedder tells the crowd that this will be the band's last show for awhile.
Hot off a month-long leg of dates opening for Pearl Jam, Band of Horses has moved back into headliner status with a tour that now pushes into October.
