Word: vedder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...down an $11 million invitation to rejoin the actress in the sequel. Reeves' spokesman explained that the actor, who has been the subject of a college course and had bouts of Shakespeare, "doesn't really see himself as an action star." What he does see himself as is Eddie Vedder. Reeves will spend the summer touring with his grunge band, Dogstar. (One critic described its music as "Flipper meets an industrial accident.") The group has yet to sign a record contract...
...Blowfish. When the band released Cracked Rear View, in 1994, it came across as something fresh and different, in large part because it didn't try to come across as anything fresh or different. Modern rock needed some new life, figuratively and literally--Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder's misunderstood-misanthrope act got tired about five seconds after Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain's suicidally depressive lyrics turned out to be all too genuine. Hootie was embraced as an alternative to alternative, a straight-ahead zig to the posturing zag of the rest of contemporary rock, and Cracked Rear...
...EDDIE VEDDER "I don't think it means anything," Pearl Jammer said of his award. But he took it anyway...
...fans in the U.S. Khan is a singer of qawwali--Sufi Muslim religious music, which, like gospel, seeks to bring listeners closer to God through ecstatic vocals and rhythms. Some American rock stars, perhaps seeking to fill a spiritual void in their own music, have gravitated to Khan. Eddie Vedder, leader of the prickly rock band Pearl Jam, sings two elegiac duets with him on the sound track of the film Dead Man Walking...
...weird place to be because in pop, women are always an endangered species. From Elvis to Eddie Vedder, modern pop has been a guy's game; the primal image is of a man and his guitar, the tortured satyr and his magic lute. And the women? They can scream in the audience or maybe sing backup. In childhood girls are no more encouraged to pick up a Les Paul Black Beauty than pilot an F-16. They are expected to play only one instrument: the voice...