Early this morning, radio stations across the US premiered “The Fixer”; the first single off of Pearl Jam’s upcoming release, Backspacer. For those unable to tune into their local radio station, the band is streaming the new single on its Ten Club Myspace page. The upcoming album will be the band’s ninth studio effort and the first since 2006’s Pearl Jam. Although the last album received critical acclaim and has sold enough units to grant it “gold” certification, many long-time fans voiced their wishes for a return to Pearl Jam’s old days, when albums like Ten, VS, and Vitalogy gave …read more

According to Gibson.com, Pearl Jam will resume recoding their new album in Los Angeles California. Pearl Jam will release the new album in 2009 with no help from a major label. Pearl Jam Will be using Brendan O’Brien to produce the album. This is the first time they have hired Brendan Obrien since 1998’s Yield and the first time they have recorded outside of Seattle since 1996’s Coda.
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