In the past, corporate rock usually meant that a corporation (the record company) owned the rock band (their recordings, publishing rights, etc.).  In an increasingly post-record company music industry, the band can potentially have the power to own the corporation (or a series of business entities).
The now-legendary band Pearl Jam, free of recording contracts, is [...]

Warning to concert goers:  Pearl Jam will spoil your expectations and warp your view on how long a great concert should last.  An average, non-festival Pearl Jam show contains a 15+ song main set, a 5+ song first encore, and a 5+ song second encore.  A good non-Pearl Jam show will probably have a main [...]

According to the Smashing Pumpkins’ official website, Billy Corgan participated in a chatroom and revealed several bits of info regarding the latest, free, multi-release Smashing Pumpkins album…and something about the 2001-2003 Zwan project:
“ACTUALLY I WAS LISTENING TO SOME UNRELEASED ZWAN STUFF THAT NO ONE HAS HEARD THAT IS REALLY REALLY GOOD,” wrote Corgan.
After previously not [...]

Early yesterday, I received a “trade email” (sometimes spammy, sometimes helpful) from Sony/Epic Records that announced the streaming-release of the late Michael Jackson’s latest song, “This Is It.”  The link opened up Windows Media Player, and the quality of the stream was less-than-ideal:  hisses, pops, and AM-radio fuzz.
Here’s a slightly better quality stream from MJ’s [...]

It’s been more than four days since the second Pearl Jam concert at the Gibson Amphitheatre, and I am still energized by the show.  Being a biased Pearl Jam fan for the past couple of decades, this concert review isn’t much of a “review” as it is a recap:
Outside the venue, artist Maxx242 began re-creating [...]