Wal-Mart won't sell 72 different Pearl Jam concert CDs, but a digital music service could.
Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Tom Petty, Noel Gallagher and Jessie J were among the big-name performers in June.
Pink Floyd's lead singer Roger Waters also sang the praises of his 12-12-12 onstage partner, Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder.
And it makes sense, he says, for Pearl Jam to want to get its music into as many hands as possible.
Artists from David Bowie to REM have acknowledged their debt to him, as have newer acts like Phish and Pearl Jam.
Of course, most bands could never in a million years hope for the kind of deal Pearl Jam has laboriously worked out.
It's a store that I know the guys in Pearl Jam dig because Pearl Jam played there a couple years ago to promote an album.
So Pearl Jam made a point of getting Target to agree that the 800-some members of the Coalition of Independent Music Stores could also sell Backspacer.
But the members of Pearl Jam say they hope they'll at least learn enough to get a better sense of how to release their next album.
When Pearl Jam struck off on its own, it took the band's management three years of hard negotiating to cobble together an unusual coalition of retail partners.
Starting Sunday, Sept. 20, you can buy Backspacer on the Pearl Jam Web site, on iTunes, on Xbox's Rock Band game, as a Verizon ringtone or at Target.
But if you want to know how Nirvana and Pearl Jam came to be, these six bands -- whose histories are tightly intertwined -- are a good place to start.
It will probably start with the artists, and the labels will be second, like the Grateful Dead offering their concert tapes or Pearl Jam offering 72 different CDs of 72 different concerts.
So by all means go ahead and purchase the "Nevermind" reissue or catch a showing of Cameron Crowe's new "Pearl Jam Twenty" documentary, and relive the glories of grunge's most commercial era.
Gaines and Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard will be among the participants in a Wednesday teleconference to kick off the contest -- during which the celebrities will be blogging on the site.
With his own cross-promotional opportunities providing additional motivation, Jay-Z assembled a diverse, multigenerational list of musical acts from genres including hip-hop (Odd Future, Drake, Run-DMC) to electronic (Afrojack, Calvin Harris, Skrillex) to rock (Pearl Jam, X, The Hives).
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In some quarters, it seems 1991, which also saw the release of Pearl Jam's multiplatinum debut album "Ten" and Soundgarden's "Badmotorfinger, " is being treated as year 0 of grunge, because that's when the music exploded into the mainstream consciousness.
"I think it's neat both for Pearl Jam and Target that they've made a deal like this that is going to include the corner record store, where so many of us fell in love with music like Pearl Jam's, " Jim DeRogatis says.
Rock and electronica invaded and not only in the form of electric music with an emphasis on the backbeat: Guitarist Julian Lage and his combo ended its set with a Pearl Jam tune, Mr. Coltrane quoted a Nirvana song, and pianist Vijay Iyer paid tribute to techno's Robert Hood.
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