If your squeezed-by-gas-and-groceries-and-“strip club” budget doesn’t cover flying east this month to catch Pearl Jam at Bonnaroo or Madison Square Garden, may we suggest a cheaper, closer, and more summer-vacation-y alternative: VH1’s Rock Honors show in Los Angeles on July 12. For as little as $65 (plus fees, duh), you can see Pearl Jam live. And Foo Fighters. And The Flaming Lips. And The effing Who. And possibly see your raised fists on TV a......

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! 1992 Eddie (strokes soul patch; sings to himself): I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution… take a bow for the new revolution… 2008 Eddie (spots 1992 Eddie): Hey, are you ... ? Young......

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. Of interest to fans: Pearl Jam played The Who’s Love Reign O’er Me (below) live for the first time. Strange but true: In December 1979, 11 fans died during a suffocating crowd surge......

Rock stars are dark and mysterious, calculating and philanthropic, and almost always stylish and physically attractive. And then there are Jack Black and Kyle Gass. The collectively overweight, bad-toothed, bald, poorly dressed, and lyrically challenged duo who call themselves The Greatest Band on Earth showed Friday’s Paramount crowd how truly enigmatic rock stars can be when they twist, shout, and don’t take themselves seriously. As the house lights went down, the crowd roared, and the......