Pearl Jam

"Sirens" is the latest song released by legendary band, Pearl Jam. It came out on September 18th as the second single from their tenth studio album, Lightning Bolt. "Mind Your Manners" was the first single out on July 11th. The album was released on October 15th. In its first week of release, the single sold 13,000 downloads in the US.

Guitarist Mike McCready said "I was at Roger Waters concert and was completely blown away by The Wall, I wanted to write something that would have a Pink Floyd type feel".

Lightning Bolt follows up Backspacer, which was released in September 2009. The album was produced by long-time Pearl Jam producer Brendan O'Brien and was released on Monkeywrench Records/Republic Records through Universal Music.

Formed in Seattle in 1990, the band's line-up has included Stone Gossard (guitar), Jeff Ament (bass), Mike McCready (guitar), and Eddie Vedder (vocals). The band's fifth and current drummer is Matt Cameron, of Soundgarden, who has been with the band since 1998. Created after the demise of Gossard and Ament's previous band, Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam broke into the mainstream with its debut album, Ten, in 1991. One of the key bands of the grunge movement in the early 1990s, over the course of the band's career, its members became noted for their refusal to adhere to traditional music industry practices, including refusing to make music videos, giving interviews and engaging in a much-publicized boycott of Ticketmaster. To date, the band has sold over 31.5 million records in the U.S, and an estimated 60 million worldwide. Pearl Jam has outlasted and outsold many of its contemporaries from the alternative rock breakthrough of the early 1990s, and is considered one of the most influential bands of the decade. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic referred to Pearl Jam as "the most popular American rock & roll band of the '90s."

Pearl Jam is promoting the album with tours in North America in 2013 and Oceania in 2014. They headlined the Voodoo Music + Arts Experience on November 1st. The shows in Oceania are part of the Big Day Out festival.

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