Article: Pearl Jam never left, but it's back in a big way

What good is mathematics when Pearl Jam is involved?

The veteran Seattle band that helped define grunge at the dawn of the '90s with a multi-platinum debut titled "Ten" has become the only major label survivor of the movement. Now that it has issued its 11th album, does anyone still care?

It's a curious syndrome, to be sure. Pearl Jam is hardly the first band to attain stardom with its first album only to have the rest of its career viewed as a game of commercial catch-up. But it might well be one the very few to answer skeptics with such an involving string of ferociously rocking, topically fueled and bizarrely introspective records.

Too bad most of them have more or less fallen by the ...

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