Posts Tagged as ‘Eddie Vedder’

July 15, 2008

Eddie Vedder

Eddie Vedder has announced solo tour dates, featuring the tunes he penned for the Into the Wild soundtrack. I feel strongly about this disc. The shows should be excellent. Buy tickets here.
August 1 ~ Boston ~ Opera House
August 2 ~ Boston ~ Opera House
August 4 ~ New York ~ United Palace Theatre
August 5 ~ New [...]

April 23, 2008

Body of War Soundtrack: Eddie Vedder, et al.

You can watch the video for the Eddie Vedder original song “No More” that is featured in the soundtrack Body of War: Songs That Inspired an Iraq War Veteran. The film itself is in some art house theaters now, and more to come.
Eddie talks about his reasons for becoming involved in the project here. Man, [...]

March 21, 2008

Elliott Smith

Inspired by the downloadable unreleased track Place Pigalle, posted by i guess i’m floating, let’s have ourselves an Elliott Smith post.
At turns, ES’s music is simple or intricate, lush or desolate, prancing or frantic. Or, as is generally the case with either/or (pun intended) options, both. I love his whole body of work (buy), but [...]

March 7, 2008

Gnarls Barkley

After taking a break from being jacked-in to the internet, I found a few things that looked interesting … but were not.
The new Gnarls Barkley video of Run, heralding their April album release, aptly titled The Odd Couple. The video includes Justin Timberlake goofing around, which is marginally more entertaining than the song, in which [...]

January 23, 2008

Favorite Albums of 2007

I am so incensed by the exclusion of Into the Wild’s soundtrack from year-end lists, I am creating a 2007 best albums list. Everyone else thinks they’re righting the world’s wrongs, too, but so be it.
stellasplice’s favorite albums of 2007:
Boxer ~ The National
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Music for the Motion Picture Into the Wild ~ Eddie [...]

January 22, 2008

Into the Wild and Once

I hadn’t watched VH1 in a very long time. But flipping through the channels, I landed on a very happy duo of songs.
First was Eddie Vedder on a bar stool singing Guaranteed from the Into the Wild soundtrack, a disc that also serves as Eddie’s solo debut. Incredible book, movie, and soundtrack trifecta. There’s also [...]