Pearl Jam released its ninth studio album on Sunday (September 20th), called Backspacer. For the first time, the band did an exclusive deal with a single large retailer to sell the record, in this case Target, although it is also being sold through selected independent stores and iTunes. The band streamed the album in its entirety on Friday (September 18th) at MySpace prior to the Sunday arrival, along with a documentary on the making of the record.
Guitarist Stone Gossard told us a while back that Pearl Jam feels like its songwriting is as strong as ever after so many years together: ["We're still writing songs in a way that, we don't take it -- we haven't started hiring people to write songs for us, or feeling like we can't do it ourselves. And we keep being rewarded for our work that we do with each other and the chances we take in terms of trusting each other and songwriting and collaboration and all that stuff."]
Coldplay wrapped up its 16-month world tour this past weekend (September 19th and 20th) with two massive shows at Wembley Stadium in London, and frontman Chris Martin told the BBC that readjusting to normal life will be tricky for the members of the group. He explained, "I think people around us find us quite hard to be around. All of us when you come off tour, at 9:00 p.m. you get this sudden crazy energy and it's not the same if you're just watching The X Factor (UK version of American Idol)."
Coldplay has been touring behind its award-winning, multi-platinum fourth album, Viva La Vida...Or Death And All His Friends, which was released in June 2008.
The singer added that the band is looking forward to retiring the military-style stage outfits they wore throughout the tour. He said, "If it's one thing we've become known for now it's our ridiculous costumes. It is like a school uniform and I think we'll feel strange playing a concert without them."
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich told Nudge from Dayton, Ohio radio station 103.9 The X last week that fans should not expect a follow-up to last year's Death Magnetic album any time soon. Ulrich said that the group will most likely be touring through the end of 2010 before taking a break, and that work on a new record probably wouldn't begin until at least the second half of 2011. Ulrich told us something along the same lines when we recently asked him a similar question: ["I wouldn't hold my breath. Do the math yourself, as I like to hear myself say, you know. You got another year on the road, and then you gotta, you know, breathe for a little while, then you gotta do it all over again. I'd love to put records out more often, but right now, I don't know what's gonna give, in between touring and having some chill time with the family and how long it takes to, you know, make these records."
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