New Album from Pearl Jam

Pearl Jam is back after a four-year hiatus, with their self-titled album and judging by their first single-World Wide Suicide, they still seem to have some spark in them.
Here’s the Rollingstone review:
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/9964953/rid/10028282/
Few excerpts:

Pearl Jam have not been this consistently dirty and determined in the studio since they subbed for Crazy Horse on Neil Young's 1995 Mirror Ball.

Whenever the guitars take over, which is a lot -- Gossard and McCready's slugging AC/DC-like intro to "Life Wasted"; McCready's wild wah-wah ride in "Big Wave"; the way he cracks Vedder's gloom in "Parachutes" like heat lightning -- it reminds me that Gossard and McCready deserved to be on our 2003 "Greatest Guitarists" list. Permit me to admit it here: I screwed up.


And an interview with Eddie Vedder (again in the Rollingstone), though I find it a bit disappointing, stupid questions, but luckily the answers saved the piece to some extent.

Link:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/9961927/eddie_vedder

Excerpts:
Vedder on

∑ Music videos

“I think it's a great art form if it's approached the right way. But it's time consuming...just like interviews! [laughs] It seems like the time spent playing live and organizing shows, and putting the record and the artwork together seems to take up all the time we have. Until we can do it right...we'll see. I found a guy I'd like to do it with, but we'll see.”

∑ What Bob Dylan told Vedder recently

We were about to record our second record, and Bob passed on a few lessons to me in the corner, one of which was, "Don't read anything in the paper. Don't watch TV. Get away." I felt that same thing at the time, overly inundated and somewhat like a commodity -- you'd watch TV or open the paper and our band was there as some kind of commodity. Our band had become part of the pollution.

∑ On The Strokes

The new Strokes record is just a great piece of work. The sounds, and the vocal delivery is really great. Both those guys, Caleb and Julian. Caleb's vocal delivery is so unique and his phrasing; it's like what they used to say about Sinatra -- his phrasing is what really made it. I'm not into Sinatra, but I get that. George Jones is another thing, and even McCartney and Lennon. You listen to these songs, but it's unconscious the way they phrase things. Joey Ramone as well.