Kings of Leon, Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam Headline Austin City Limits

One of the biggest festivals of the year gears up with its best lineup yet -- already sold out!
Austin City Limits Headliners, Kings of Leon

With a whopping 130 bands scheduled to perform, the eighth annual Austin City Limits Music Festival (Oct. 2-4) is sure to be one to remember. While the Beastie Boys were forced to cancel due Adam Yauch's battle with cancer, the festival still boasts Kings of Leon, Dave Matthews Band, and Pearl Jam as headliners, with New York City art-punks Yeah Yeah Yeahs added to the bill.

Pearl Jam, 'Backspacer' (Monkeywrench)

Ed Ved and the crew crank up the carpe diem to 11.
Photo by Danny Clinch

Conventional wisdom marks 2006's Pearl Jam as the grunge outfit’s reignition point after years without a spark. If that's true, then the first three songs on their ninth full-length are the explosion at the end of an extremely long fuse.

Pearl Jam Tour, Night 5: Seattle

Hometown heroes Vedder and Co. offer up plenty of goosebump moments -- and weigh in on Kanye.
Pearl Jam / Photo by Alex Crick

When you're Pearl Jam, Key Arena is your living room and your family is 17,000 screaming Seattleites.

LISTEN: Pearl Jam's New Album!

The Seattle alt-rockers leak Backspacer. Hear it NOW!
Eddie Vedder

Ah, Pearl Jam are just a bunch of rock'n'roll Santa Clauses disguised in tattered jeans and flannel shirts. First they dropped a pair of new tunes on us, and now, just a few days before the Sept.

Pearl Jam: Moving Targets

Eddie Vedder and gang have an ax to grind -- and throw -- as rock's former angry young men try a new approach.
Photo by Rankin

You haven't really tasted death until you've been inches away from an ax swung by Eddie Vedder.

Buy SPIN's Special-Edition Pearl Jam Issue!

Order your copy of our expanded October issue with an exclusive, R-rated cover and 12 extra pages of exclusive band photos!
Pearl Jam

Autumn 2009 is Pearl Jam season: As the Seattle alt-rockers plow through their U.S.

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