Pearl Jam wrapped up its 2023 fall tour last night with a show in Austin, Texas.
The near three-hour, 26-song set was reportedly the band’s final show supporting their 2020 album “Gigaton,” and Pearl Jam fan podcast Live on 4 Legs reported that during the show Eddie Vedder told the crowd that the band will release a new album next year.
According to Italian fan site PearlJamOnline, this is what Vedder told the crowd regarding next year’s release:
“I think you know we’ve made a record for next year and I won’t give anything away but what I can tell you is if you like the musicians in this group I think you’re gonna hear them play and it just came out really good and you’re gonna hear them playing at their highest level. So it was a very good collection. So we’re excited about that and excited to see the end of summer with you all and again thank you.”
The band has been in the studio with producer Andrew Watt recording material for the record. Watt worked with Vedder on his 2022 solo album “Earthling” and has also worked with a wide variety of superstar artists including Ozzy Osbourne, Justin Bieber, Post Malone, Iggy Pop and others.
In an interview with Guitar World, Mike McCready said working with Watt “brought an energy and a youthfulness and a great ear to us that I think we needed.”
If last night’s show in Austin was the final concert of the “Gigaton” tour it will mark the first time Pearl Jam has gone through an album cycle without playing a hometown show. The band hasn’t played a concert in Seattle since the successful Home Shows at Safeco Field in 2018.
In other Pearl Jam news, Eddie Vedder will be playing two solo concerts at Benaroya Hall next month. The concerts are a benefit for EB Research Partnership. Vedder will also be performing at his Ohana Festival in California next month. At the same festival, Jeff Ament’s latest side project, Deaf Charlie, will make its live debut.
