2011, REAREND IN VIEW: Women rule concert industry
Admit it: Prince sucked. Oh, don’t get your panties in a twist. Someone has to say it. And someone has to respond that a bad concert from Prince is still better than most other concerts. Fine. But if you were there at Rexall Place on Dec. 13, the more you reflect on it, the more [...]
CONCERT REVIEW: Pearl Jam rocks Twenty out of Ten
This concludes Pearl Jam Week in Edmonton. We hope you enjoyed the band’s spectacular show at Rexall Place on Friday night, and the Cameron Crowe documentary about how it all came to be so spectacular, Pearl Jam Twenty, celebrating the 20th anniversary of Ten, the band’s breakthrough album. Some numerology is at work here. The [...]
Pearl Jam vs Foo Fighters: the rivalry continues
Related: Pearl Jam Twenty digs deep at EIFF Related: It’s Pearl Jam week in Edmonton! Related: Mudhoney is twenty, too! Back in 1991, the music world was taken by storm by the Seattle “grunge” scene, as the two frontrunners of the sound – Nirvana and Pearl Jam – released their pinnacle albums within one month [...]
Cameron Crowe’s Pearl Jam documentary digs deep
Pearl Jam, has it really been 20 years? The latest film from director and former Seattle music journalist Cameron Crowe, Pearl Jam Twenty, recounts the story of the ‘90s grunge group’s origins and staying power. Crowe’s film is more than a documentary, more than a concert film – it’s a personal portrait and an unabashed [...]
INTERVIEW: Mudhoney also celebrates ‘Twenty’
It’s been 20 years since Seattle’s grunge scene hijacked the North American pop charts. Tributes have been pouring in all year for Nirvana’s iconic 1991 album Nevermind, while the documentary Twenty (which screened Thursday at Garneau Theatre as part of the Edmonton International Film Festival) celebrates the two-decade anniversary of Pearl Jam’s debut Ten. The [...]
EIFF STAR WATCH: Pearl Jam, Omi Vaidya, Brenda Fricker, Joshua Leonard – and you!
It wasn’t a coincidence – it was a conspiracy! The fact that Pearl Jam had a day off on the same night that EIFF screened the new Pearl Jam documentary, Twenty, was “not an accident,” confirms EIFF programmer Guy Lavallee. “It was very specifically targeted to play between the Calgary and Edmonton shows. But they [...]
Pearl Jam Week declared in Edmonton – on screen and stage
The new Pearl Jam documentary Twenty is opening the Edmonton International Film Festival (EIFF) on Thursday – which just happens to be a day off for the band before they play Rexall Place on Friday. Coincidence? Probably. Will members of Pearl Jam actually show up at the screening? Probably not. Sources close to the band [...]
Pearl Jam hits Rexall Sept. 23
Gosh, has it been 20 years? Break out your old flannel. It’s high time for a grunge rock revival – and we can think of no better (living) rock band than Pearl Jam to mark the occasion. The band plays Edmonton’s Rexall Place on Friday, September 23, part of a Canadian tour that includes Mudhoney [...]
