Pearl Jam will play its first present since longtime drummer Matt Cameron’s last efficiency with the Rock and Roll Corridor of Famers on Might 18, 2025, in Pittsburgh, and it’ll happen on some very acquainted grounds. The group is extensively anticipated to introduce a brand new drummer, whose identification has but to be confirmed, when it hits the stage at Eddie Vedder’s annual Ohana Pageant in Dana Level, Ca., on Sept. 27. Click on right here for tickets.
The tenth anniversary Ohana lineup at Doheny State Seashore may also characteristic headlining units from Vedder and unnamed pals on Sept. 25 and Tyler Childers the next night time. The undercard boasts Mexican rock legends Maná, Billy Idol, Dangerous Faith, Courtney Barnett, Bob Mould’s reunited Sugar, Alabama Shakes, Jon Batiste, Males I Belief, Fontaines D.C., Pixies, Rilo Kiley, the Format and Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament’s aspect band P.E.S.T. Click on right here for tickets.
Though he knowledgeable his Pearl Jam bandmates about his intentions earlier than embarking on a spring 2025 tour in help of the album Darkish Matter, Cameron surprised followers when he made the information public final July. The musician spent greater than a decade in Soundgarden earlier than becoming a member of Pearl Jam in summer season 1998 because the substitute for Jack Irons, who exited weeks earlier for a wide range of private causes.
Cameron’s first present was on Might 7, 1998, in Seattle, and barring a handful of COVID-19 associated absences lately, he was a rock behind the drum equipment for Pearl Jam ever since, even whereas pulling double obligation with Soundgarden following its 2010 reunion and through Temple of the Canine’s first-ever tour in late 2016. Soundgarden/Temple vocalist Chris Cornell died by suicide in 2017.
“All of us felt that taking part in with Matt Cameron was a dream come true,” Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready informed SPIN in March. “He’s such a stable power, and we have been so fortunate to get him after we wanted him. In fact, I at all times worshiped him as a drummer and received to know him and love him as a human being and his entire household. I imply, I’ve identified his spouse, April, since we have been in highschool collectively. I at all times felt the band was going to be higher yearly as a result of he was a member. That’s the way in which I checked out it. I’m wanting ahead to the long run and no matter which may be, however I like Matt and I need him to pursue no matter he desires to pursue and achieve success at it. I want him one of the best on his journeys.”
Pearl Jam performed Ohana for the primary time in 2021 as soon as pandemic-era restrictions round concert events started to ease. The group returned to the pageant in 2024.
