Pearl Jam Tickets

Pearl Jam News and Information Pearl Jam is back on tour this fall with stops in Oregon, Texas, Washington, California, Utah, Pennsylvania, Australia, New Zealand and Vancouver. They're scheduled to play for four nights in a row—including Halloween night—at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Penn.

Previously, they wrapped up 13 shows on the East Coast where they played at many music festivals, including the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, which was the largest one in the festival's history.

Pearl Jam ushered in the Seattle grunge movement with Nirvana in the early 1990s, and they remain extremely popular today. Their success has remained because the group refuses to adhere to the commercial standards of popular music. They refuse to make music videos and boycotted Ticketmaster for some time, but have sold more than 30 million records in the U.S. and 60 million worldwide.

The group now consists of Frontman Eddie Vedder, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready and Matt Cameron. A slightly altered lineup got together in the late 1980s while many of the performers were in other outfits. They played their first official show on October 22, 1990. It didnt take long for the group to explode in the rock world. The group released "Ten" in 1991, and by the second half of 1992 it became their breakthrough success. The effort was a dark collection, including songs about death, depression and suicide, but hit singles "Even Flow," "Alive" and "Jeremy" kept the album on the top of the Billboard Charts for more than two years, and helped it to go twelve times platinum.

Pearl Jam was boosted to the likes of Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains. The group toured relentlessly to support the album, including a spot on the Lollapalooza tour in 1992. The bands next collection, "Vs." in 1993, was also a hit - it sold almost one million copies in its first week and included the hits "Daughter," "Dissident," "Go," and "Animal." They were starting to get a "sell out" reputation from loyal grunge enthusiasts, though, so they stepped away from commercial promotion of the album, including a refusal to film a video. They also refused to release singles and insisted that their albums be released on vinyl.

The band boycotted Ticketmaster after realizing there was a service charge added to tickets, so the group was prevented from major touring for a number of years. They continued to release a number of successful albums, though. In 1998 they stopped the ban and continued touring in the country. Their most successful album later in the decade was the 1960s cover "Last Kiss."

In 2003, the alt rockers embarked on the massive Riot Act Tour, and recorded every album in its official bootleg program, which made every concert available on CD and their web site. Most recently, the band released "Pearl Jam" in 2006. They are currently working on a new album.