Wealthy celebrities including Reese Witherspoon, Khloe Kardashian, Jay-Z, and the rock bands Pearl Jam and Green Day have benefited from government-issued Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans handed out at the height of the coronavirus pandemic — nearly all of which have been forgiven by Uncle Sam, according to a new report from the Daily Mail.
The wildfires ravaging vast parts of Europe for the past week have taken an unusual toll on Pearl Jam. Band members were forced to cancel a show in Vienna on Wednesday, after front man Eddie Vedder’s voice was damaged during a performance in France.
A California high school student rocked out on the drums for the iconic grunge band Pearl Jam Friday night after the band’s drummer came down with coronavirus.
For the left, no holiday is off-limits for shameless political flacking. On Monday, Hollywood celebrities used Martin Luther King Day to push the Democrats’ “voting rights” bills that are designed to seize election oversight power from states and roll back measures including voter identification requirements.
Former President Barack Obama and his celebrity pals are not letting panic from U.S. health officials over the delta variant of the Chinese coronavirus ruin his 60th birthday bash. Despite the Biden White House entertaining the idea of mandates and lockdowns once more, Obama will reportedly celebrate his 60th with Stephen Spielberg among the guests attending in his honor, Axios reported.
More than 50 Hollywood celebrities have mobilized to raise money and pump up enthusiasm for Democrat challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. Using their star power to attract donor dollars, they have put their Hollywood imprint on the Georgia races in the hopes of flipping the Senate on January 5.
Georgia is now ground zero in the battle for the balance of power in Washington, D.C., as control of the U.S. Senate now hinges on the outcome of the two Senate runoff races in the Peach State. With the Senate majority leadership within his reach, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) recently declared, “Now we take Georgia, and then we change America.”
Rock band Pearl Jam has registered as a political advertiser on Facebook, spending more than $17,000 on Facebook ads as part of a get out the vote campaign for the upcoming presidential election, The New York Times revealed. The move comes as Pearl Jam members, including frontman Eddie Vedder, help promote the Biden campaign and efforts to push vote by mail.
Pearl Jam musicians, including frontman Eddie Vedder, teamed up with the Biden-Harris campaign on Thursday to push voter participation and vote by mail, all in a bid to propel Joe Biden into the White House. During the virtual event, the anti-Trump Vedder weighed in on the likelihood of mass voter fraud, saying that chances were “miniscule.”
Pearl Jam is teaming up with the pro-vote by mail organization Voting Rights Lab for “Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy,” a rock compilation album aimed at spurring voter turnout ahead of the November election.
Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder made his first-ever Instagram post on Sunday, urging people to vote by mail in what he described as the “single greatest form of non-violent protest.”
Members of the rock band Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder and Jeff Ament, have partnered with the online fundraising platform Omaze to launch a sweepstake aimed at encouraging people to vote in the 2020 presidential election.
Artists Aerosmith, Mick Jagger, Lionel Richie, Elton John, Sia, and more than 50 other singers signed an open letter demanding politicians and campaigns stop playing their music at rallies and events without their consent.
Greta Thunberg stars in the music video for Pearl Jam’s environmental doom tune “Retrograde.” The teenage climate alarmist plays a fortune teller warning of imminent climate destruction, the video’s director revealed.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pearl Jam is postponing the North American leg of its Gigaton world tour because of concerns over the new coronavirus, the band announced Monday.
Sen. Jon Tester’s (D-MT) Senate re-election campaign has inflamed controversy several times during the 2018 midterm elections.
Montana rancher and state auditor Matt Rosendale told Breitbart News Tonight on Wednesday that he finds it “very disturbing” that Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) has yet to personally condemn a Pearl Jam poster that features a dead Donald Trump.
Sen. Jon Tester’s (D-MT) Senate campaign disavowed a Pearl Jam poster for a get-out-the-vote concert on Monday featuring a dead President Donald Trump and an American bald eagle eating the remains of his corpse.
A Pearl Jam poster for a get-out-the-vote campaign concert for Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) features a dead President Donald Trump and an American bald eagle eating the remains of his corpse.
A hall of fame is about as rock ’n’ roll as Wilford Brimley.
Rap legend Tupac Shakur, 80s soft rock band Journey and 90s alternative rock group Pearl Jam are among the eclectic group of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees to be inducted into the prestigious club in 2017.
Pop singer Nick Jonas is standing by his decision to cancel a pair of concerts in North Carolina over the state’s so-called LGBT “bathroom” law, telling Ellen DeGeneres on Monday that it was “the right thing to do.”
Pop rockers Nick Jonas and Demi Lovato have joined a growing list of artists who have cancelled concerts in North Carolina over the state’s recent passage of HB 2, or what has been called an “anti-LGBT” law governing public restrooms.
Rocker Eddie Vedder explained his band’s decision to cancel a concert in North Carolina over the state’s “bathroom law” and dedicated a song to “all the soldiers in the LGBT community” during a Pearl Jam show in Hampton, Virginia on Monday.
Pearl Jam has cancelled a concert in North Carolina in opposition of the state’s newly passed Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act — which requires individuals to use the public restroom that corresponds with their biological gender. In a statement announcing the cancellation of an April 20 show in Raleigh, the band described the new legislation as “despicable.”
Beyoncé and Coldplay rocked out, First Lady Michelle Obama launched a new girls’ education initiative, and Leonardo DiCaprio warned of the dangers of climate change as tens of thousands gathered for the fourth annual Global Citizen Festival in New York’s Central Park on Saturday.
Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder will serve as David Letterman’s final musical guest next week as the host’s Late Show tenure comes to a close after more than 20 years on CBS.
One Wisconsin rock station banned all Seattle music. A Seattle suburb banned cheese until after the game. This must mean the rivalry between Seattle and Green Bay is heating up before the Seahawks and Packers showdown on Sunday in the NFC Championship Game.
President Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia visited Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder at his house in Kailua on the last day of the first family’s two-week Hawaii vacation.
