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A couple months ago, when Eddie Vedder announced the stops on his solo tour, we were surprised to see nothing in Seattle on the agenda. But now, with the upcoming release of his band's ninth (!) studio album, Backspacer, Pearl Jam has announced a North American tour, including two nights at Key Arena to kick things off on September 21 and 22. So far, it's a tiny tour, with only shows in Seattle, L.A., San Diego, and Philadelphia, though we expect more to come before the band heads Down Under in November. Ben Harper and Relentless7 open for all shows except Philly. Seattle tix go on sale July 18, though if you're a member of the Ten club, the presale begins Monday, July 13. Full details on the tour after the jump.

Eddie Vedder's 2009 U.S. solo tour dates were just announced, but unfortunately there's nothing in Seattle on the schedule. The eleven-date tour kicks off June 8th in Albany, NY (of course) and ends July 2nd in Honolulu (that actually makes sense). And sorry folks, but the Hawaii dates are the closest Eddie's getting to this neck of the woods, although he did play seven shows on the West Coast (mostly California) last April, along with a ten-date East Coast tour last summer.

Seattlest's inbox delivered gasp-inducing news for Pearl Jam fans this morning: The band is reissuing their 12-million-unit-selling 1991 debut, Ten. In four different "packages": On CD and vinyl, and in two versions—the one we all know and love, and a new edition, completely remixed by Brendan O'Brien.

It seems that another year will pass without a Pearl Jam concert in Seattle. So it goes. Of no small consolation: Between trips to the studio to record their next album, the band's members will appear all over town in the coming months. Here's who, where, and when:

...but another member of Pearl Jam has written a little ditty to show their support--not for a politician, but for a long-suffering sports team. But don't hold your breath, Mariners fans, though we too are long-suffering: Eddie Vedder, an Illinois native, has penned a song about the Chicago Cubs. While we haven't had a championship in 31 years, the Cubs haven't had one for nearly a century. Give us a few more losing decades and Vedder can write one for the Ms.

Late last year, Sean and Robin Wright Penn filed the paperwork necessary to put their marriage the way of yesterday's hangover.

As war protest songs go, they don't come more pointed or authentic than Eddie Vedder's "No More," which the Pearl Jam frontman extrapolated from 26 year-old veteran Tomas Young's brief—and literally paralyzing—Army tour of Iraq. The song's video, poured into the tubes yesterday by "online political and social action community" Think MTV, is just as sincere and direct.

Last month, four-fifths of Pearl Jam touted their own Obama-song, unofficially signaling the band's endorsement of the (delegate) leading Democrat. Unofficially, because Eddie Vedder wasn't involved. Then Ralph Nader—Eddie's favorite former candidate—joined the presidential race. Would the frontman split from his bandmates or maintain political solidarity?

Try as they might Tuesday, Great Northern couldn't bring much levity to a heavy night at the Showbox. Their fuzzy, bordering-on-pop sound was like the prologue of a bad dream—when you know something bad's coming, but for the moment, things are truly swell. In this case, badness (in the coolest sense of the word) was the looming presence of Mark Lanegan and Greg Dulli: The Gutter Twins.

If you weren't lucky enough to nab a pair of tickets to an April Eddie Vedder show via Pearl Jam's fan club presale or Ticketmaster's sale last Friday, you're only screwed if you aren't extremely wealthy—and charitable.

Yes, they're overblown and sure, it's tiring to watch 4+ hours of Hollywood patting itself on the back, but it's the Academy Awards, fer fuckssake. We can't not watch Sunday's big show. From the red carpet fashion to the drawn-out musical numbers to the people-who've-died montage and the Academy's tribute to gaffers, the Oscars offer something for everyone. Plus, this year it's hosted by Jon Stewart and, though his comedy is not exactly made for Hollywood insiders, we still love that wee little funnyman. (Fact: Jon Stewart is approximately Oscar-sized.)

What with his recent Into the Wild success, it's not a huge surprise that Eddie Vedder's embarking on his first solo tour—announced today—up and down the West coast. What is surprising is that he's not playing Seattle.

Well, not exactly. Eddie Vedder wasn't involved. And it's a "new rendition of an old-school tune"—a cover of the 1955 ditty "Rock Around the Clock." The "new rendition" doesn't amount to much more than a single-word swap; "Clock," in both title and refrain, has been replaced by "Barack."

Happy Monday, Pearl Jam/Eddie Vedder fans. The frontman-gone-sometimes-solo can be seen on VH1 today in the video for “Guaranteed,” his acclaimed song from the (brief, but really effing great) Into the Wild soundtrack.

Vedder’s first solo music video—for his critically lauded and Grammy-nominated Into the Wild song “Guaranteed”—airs on VH1 (and VH1.com) on Monday. Perfect timing, then, for the ever-more-famous guy to bump into his 1992 self while browsing Easy Street’s vinyl bins. Serendipity!

The past few months have seen Mr. “Wes C. Addle”—Eddie Vedder—looking more like Mr. Tinseltown than just another (incredibly talented) Easy Street customer. Times don’t look like they’ll be a-changin’ in 2008.

Say what you will about Sean Penn and Eddie Vedder's politics, but the guys put together a hell of a film and soundtrack. While Penn's Into the Wild might not match its somber weight with Oscar gold, its music, care of Vedder, could score at the Grammys and Academy Awards. His song "Guaranteed" (covered below) already received a Best Song nom from the former.

In previewing Monday night’s Macage Harybu Trio show, we admitted that we don’t know jazz from Shinola. What’s more, we really don’t like the stuff. (This stuff, anyway.) Truth be told, if Matt Cameron wasn’t one-third of the act, we wouldn’t have driven to Northgate’s intimate Seattle Drum School to see them play.

So Krist Novoselic blogs for the Weekly now. Oooh. Courtney Love doesn’t need any stinking alt-paper to share her anarchic thoughts. She’s got authenticity. She’s got voice. She’s got MySpace.

This past Friday, Steinbrueck Park was the site of a free, four-hour concert that punctuated Pike Place Market’s Centennial Celebration. It was a great time to be a proud, passionate Seattleite. A wonderful time to be a frugal tourist. And, despite a tiny bit of Pearl Jam-overpromising by Party promoters, a perfect time to be Seattlest.

Pearl Jam capped off this year’s three-day Lollapalooza blowout on August 5, and as anyone who knows much about the band might expect, singer Eddie Vedder badmouthed Big Government (Mr. Bush) and Big Business (BP Amoco) on stage. If you weren’t lucky enough to be there (as we weren’t), but caught AT&T’s “live” Blue Room webcast of the band’s performance, you missed some of Eddie’s poli-sci jabs because they were strategically removed.

Seven years ago tomorrow, nine people died in a wet, muddy, suffocating crowd surge during a Pearl Jam show at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark. This past Tuesday, the band was back to play Copenhagen for the first time since the tragedy.

Chris Cornell formed Temple of the Dog along with Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament and Mike McCready to perform a couple of tribute songs for Chris's roommate Andrew Wood who had ODed in 1990. A couple of those guys also played in Mother Love Bone with Wood, who was previously known as Landrew the Love Child. This is a letter from Wood explaining that his presence in the band Mother Love Bone doesn't mean that an earlier project, Malfunkshun, was over.

About a year ago, some intrepid New Yorkers created a real-life version of Pac-Man with the grid of Manhattan serving as the maze. They called it Pac Manhattan. We at Seattlest propose a real-life version of the game, 'Where's Waldo?.' We call it 'Where's Eddie?' Recently, the remaining Godfather of Grunge, Eddie Vedder, has been seen throughout Seattle. Case it point, he showed up un expectantly last night at EZ Street Records performing next to former X singer John Doe. As he prepares for an impending Pearl Jam tour, we can only expect more of these Eddie sightings, so if you see Eddie, please let us know. We do not know if he is wearing a knit cap, striped sweater and glasses a la Waldo, but if he is, you might want to let him know that it's hot out, so he might want to change.