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Pearl Jam will be releasing recordings from their 2010 shows. The official bootlegs offered by the band will continue a tradition that they began in 2000. In addition, Pearl Jam announced they are launching a web-based radio station called Pearl Jam Radio. According to Pearl Jam’s website, the station will be offering a a continuous stream of studio, rare and live songs.

Pearl Jam, before heading over to Europe this June, is adding a small run of East coast and Midwest dates starting in early May to support “Backspacer,” their recent album. They will wrap up the trek at Madison Square Garden with a two night stand on May 20-21. The new dates for the US were announced on Pearl Jam’s website. The veteran rockers from Seattle are preparing for their March 13 Saturday Live musical guest appearance.

Pearl Jam, Aerosmith and Green Day, along with Skunk Anansie, are some of the first confirmed acts for the 2010 Heineken Jammin Festival. It will take place July 3-6 in Venice Italy at Mestre’s San Guiliano Park. Earlier this week the four acts were announced during a Mestre press conference attended by Venice’s Mayor, Heineken Italy’s Marketing Director, Live Nation Italy/Milano Concerti’s CEO, and Municipalita Mestre Carpendo’s President.

Pearl Jam, The Black Crowes and My Morning Jacket head the lineup that organizers have announced for next year’s New Orleans Jazz Fest 41st edition. The festival will be held April 23-25 as well as April 29-May 2 at Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans.

On October 12th, Eddie Vedder joined Roger Daltrey during his Seattle solo stop on the tour Use It Or Lose It for the second show at Showbox Sodo. Past the mid point of the show Daltrey’s band started to launch into “Better Man” by Pearl Jam, with Vedder joining Daltrey to co-lead on the song’s vocals along with “The Real Me” from the Who.

For a brief moment, the Pearl Jam concert at the Gibson Amphitheater in Los Angeles last night, witnessed the reunion of Temple of the Dog. Chris Cornell joined the band onstage to perform the 1991 hit song, “Hunger Strike.” The performance included all the Temple of the Dog principal members, including Cornell, Mike McCready, Matt Cameron, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, as well as Eddie Vedder, the background vocalist.

On Wednesday at the Gibson Amphitheater, four songs through the Pearl Jam performance, Eddie Vedder shifted from one foot to the next like he was trying to keep his balance on a fast moving object. Mike McCready, guitarist, leaned back while Stone Gossard, who was on rhythm guitar, leaned forward. Jeff Ament, bassist, had his head down like he was holding onto a mooring line. The storm’s eye, as he pounded out his steady drum notes with a calm face and straight back, was Matt Cameron.

If I told you that Pearl Jam was going to partner with Target, you might look out your window to check for flying pigs. The Seattle based grunge band, after all, set the bar in terms of not selling out during the 1990s. They protested the exorbitant ticket prices of Ticketmaster and shunned the arena band fortune and fame with everything they had.

Pearl Jam appears to be on course to grab their first No. 1 album in 13 years on the Billboard 200 next week. Prognostications by industry experts have suggested that “Backspacer,” the band’s new album that was released on Sunday, will probably sell somewhere between 175,000 to as many as 200,000 copies by the end of the week. This type of sales figure should place them easily ahead of their competition when Billboard’s 200 chart is published on Wednesday for the week ending September 27.