Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters, Beck, Eddie Vedder, and Neil Young to play at Bridge School Benefit

The annual charity festival held in Mountain View, CA (halfway between San Francisco and San Jose...and home of the Google headquarters) will feature an impressive lineup this year (big surprise). The full lineup includes:

Arcade Fire

Beck

Dave Matthews

Diana Krall

Eddie Vedder

Foo Fighters

Jenny Lewis

Los Invisibles (Carlos Santana etc)

Mumford & Sons

Neil Young

Tony Bennett

all of whom will be performing acoustic sets for charity. The festival will be at Shoreline Amphitheatre on October 22-23rd. Tickets go on sale via livenation on Fri September 16 at 10AM PST

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video: The Strokes - Juicebox (ft Eddie Vedder)

I went to Wisconsin yesterday to see The Strokes, Queens of the Stone Age and Pearl Jam. And it was fucking grand. Eddie Vedder pointed out that Julian and Jesus have the same initials. Good man. There was plenty of man-love around; Julian joined QOTSA for "Sick Sick Sick", Josh Homme played guitar during "NYCC", Eddie came on for "Juicebox" and Julian sang "Red Mosquito" with his heroes.

I can't find any decent video from yesterday, but the video below (from Saturday night) is fucking awesome and is exactly what they sounded like yesterday.

Enjoy.

why does Eddie Vedder have to be a douche bag?

he has to ruin my capacity to enjoy his music, which I think is actually really good, by saying things like:

"If Kurt [Cobain, of Nirvana] were around today, I know he'd say to me, 'Well, you turned out OK,'"

according to NME,

"Cobain famously slated Pearl Jam for "Pioneering a corporate, alternative and cock-rock fusion", though the two frontmen did reconcile privately before Cobain's death in 1994."

why would you go around talking about how a dead rock icon would have eventually realized that his first impression of you was wrong?

anyhow, I'm about to post some songs that I've been meaning to post for a while, it's Eddie singing in lieu of Jim Morrison with The Doors.

Eddie Vedder with The Doors - Roadhouse Blues [mp3]

Eddie Vedder with The Doors - Break on Through [mp3]

Eddie Vedder with The Doors - Light My Fire [mp3]