When you're a band as big as Pearl Jam, do you really need to do interviews? Nah, probably not. What if you've got a new album titled Lightning Bolt, due out October 14th on their own label Monkeywrench? Well, okay, fine then.
As a band that has legendarily made their own rules throughout their decades of success, Pearl Jam is even doing the press circuit their own way -- only four interviews with a selected group of friends: athletes Mark Richards and Steve Gleason, fellow rocker-turned-Renaissance woman Carrie Brownstein, and the interview KEXP proudly presents to you today, with award-winning director Judd Apatow, courtesy of NPR.
Over the course of nearly an hour, these men discuss everything from guitar solos to film edits, with a lot of Neil Young fandom. You can listen to an edited version of this interview today at 2:00PM on The Afternoon Show on KEXP with DJ Kevin Cole, and watch the complete interview in the video here now:
If you want more, you can listen to the entire album stream of Lightning Bolt right now on iTunes. And ready NPR's feature on the interview here.
During our CMJ broadcast last month, KEXP was excited to host a performance from New York's own HAERTS, a band clearly on the brink of something big. With just a couple of singles and one EP to their charmingly-misspelled name, we felt fortunate to share some of their unreleased tracks with the wor…
