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Pearl Jam hosted its own radio show on December 9th, playing disc jockey for stations across the country. Before the motley of live and canned music, spoken-word recordings and commentary got under way, Eddie Vedder, the group's front man opened the underground broadcast on a mysteriously political note. "We've noticed that our society here in America is opening up their homes to some folks...with...potentially dangerous attitudes...Blatant untruths [are] treated like the gospel. We're just doing our little bit...to remind a few of you out there that you are not alone in your...
...Vedder continued, advocating the protection of women's reproductive rights, it became clear that the change he was talking about was not the one initiated by the recent election. Instead, he appeared to be focusing on the conservative talk-radio phenomenon that has swept the country. Among its voices, Rush Limbaugh speaks the loudest. While Limbaugh is often viewed as a member of the entertainment sphere, a kind of rock star to middle-aged white men, he is a key player in the nineties political landscape. A recent Time cover story entitled, "Is Rush Limbaugh Good for America," fails...
...academia, government and the press have risen to document and condemn these troubling trends in the current political dialogue. If this responsibility continues to be shirked by those who would be attacked by Limbaugh and his kind, it is hard to imagine who could pick up the slack. Eddie Vedder has a resonant voice, and appeals to a large audience, but Pearl Jam will be touring this year...
...college radio. Under the Table and Dreaming, its major-label debut, has also made the quintet an MTV favorite and poised its genteel hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia, to become the next Seattle. Lead singer-songwriter Dave Matthews, a hobby painter and self-proclaimed mamma's boy, harbors no Eddie Vedder-ish loathing of fame, though. "I'm grateful as hell. I wouldn't mind people knowing our songs in Tahiti," says Matthews, "or even Outer Mongolia...
...Vedder, the group's lyricist, continues to improve as a songwriter. "Don't need a hand," he declares on Whipping, slyly adding, "There's always arms attached." His most troubling fault is that he tries to build a sense of community among his fans by shutting others out. On Not for You he declares that his music isn't for all people, just the right people, his kind of people: "Small my table/ Sits just two ... this is not for you/ Never was for you." As it is, the world is already full of too many people who want...