The Celebration Rock Podcast’s Vitalogy-ology series on Pearl Jam concludes this week by looking at the band’s post-2000 career.
The alternate title of our episode on 2000’s Binaural and 2002’s Riot Act is: “Pearl Jam: The Lost Years.” Many PJ fans stopped following the band in the early ’00s, leaving a core of diehards who continue to support Pearl Jam to this day. But has the rest of the world been missing out? I revisited two of Pearl Jam’s most underrated albums with journalist and fan Jessica Letkemann, who has attended more than 150 Pearl Jam shows, more than all of our other Vitalogy-ology guests combined.
Our concluding episode looks at the band’s three most recent albums — 2006’s “Pearl Jam,” 2009’s “Backspacer,” and 2013’s “Lightning Bolt.” For a band whose career often teetered on the brink of dysfunction and chaos, Pearl Jam has settled into a period of stability and relaxed comfort in recent years. Looking ahead, Pearl Jam seems poised to go on forever like the Rolling Stones. To figure out how we got here, I talked with Mark Wilkerson, co-author of Pearl Jam Twenty.
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Binaural and Riot Act with Jessica Letkemann:
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Pearl Jam, Backspacer, andLightning Bolt with Mark Wilkerson:
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