View all posts by Michael Goldberg → Post navigationĮnter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. In November Backbeat Books will publish "Addicted To Noise: The Music Writings of Michael Goldberg," which can be be pre-ordered here. His new book, "Wicked Game: The True Story of Guitarist James Calvin Wilsey," can be pre-ordered from HoZac Books. Michael has had three novels published that comprise the "Freak Scene Dream trilogy": "True Love Scars," "The Flowers Lied" and "Untitled" which can be ordered here. His writing has also appeared in Wired, Esquire, Vibe, Details, Downbeat, NME and numerous other publications. Prior to starting Addicted To Noise, Goldberg was an editor and senior writer at Rolling Stone magazine for 10 years. In 1997, Addicted To Noise won Webby awards for best music site in 19, and also won Yahoo Internet Life! awards for three years running as best music site in 1998, 19. He was a senior vice-president and editor in chief at SonicNet from March 1997 through May 2000. Michael Goldberg is a distinguished pioneer in the online music space Newsweek magazine called him an ‘Internet visionary.’ In 1994 he founded Addicted To Noise (ATN), the highly influential music web site.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic referred to Pearl Jam as "the most popular American rock & roll band of the '90s. Pearl Jam has outlasted and outsold many of its contemporaries from the alternative rock breakthrough of the early 1990s, and is considered one of the most influential bands of the decade.
To date, the band has sold more than 31.5 million records in the U.S, and an estimated 60 million worldwide. In 2006, Rolling Stone described the band as having "spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing apart their own fame." One of the key bands of the grunge movement in the early 1990s, over the course of the band's career, its members became noted for their refusal to adhere to traditional music industry practices, including refusing to make music videos, giving interviews and engaging in a much-publicized boycott of Ticketmaster. The band's fifth and current drummer is Matt Cameron of Soundgarden, who has been with the band since 1998.įormed after the demise of Gossard and Ament's previous band, Mother Love Bone, Pearl Jam broke into the mainstream with its debut album, Ten, in 1991. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Stone Gossard (guitar), Jeff Ament (bass), Mike McCready (guitar), and Eddie Vedder (vocals). Pearl Jam is an American rock band, formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990.
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