New Pearl Jam studio album tentatively set for November
Pearl Jam--a band rarely known to stick to a schedule--has tentative plans to release a new studio album in November of 2002, according to Sony’s Pearl Jam Rumor Pit website.
Pearl Jam--a band rarely known to stick to a schedule--has tentative plans to release a new studio album in November of 2002, according to Sony’s Pearl Jam Rumor Pit website.
According to the latest update on the band-sanctioned, site, the band produced the new album with Adam Kasper, and frequent Pearl Jam collaborator Brendan O’Brien mixed the finished set.
“Next up will be creating the artwork, deciding the album name and then the tracklisting,” the posting said.
The album will be Pearl Jam’s seventh studio release, and its first since 2000’s “Binaural.”
The band now expects to issue an album of rarities--a mix of studio and live tracks that may span two CDs--sometime in 2003. Earlier this year, the band had planned to issue the rarities album in late 2002, and to follow with the studio set in 2003.
The Rumor Pit also reports that the band is “planning to do a few shows before year’s end but there are no details yet.”
In other Pearl Jam-related news, the third album from Brad (the side project of Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard), is scheduled for release in the U.S. on Aug. 13. The band is expected to open a tour in October.
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