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Pearl Jam – Dark Matter (CD) artist-mike-gordon helmed by pop and hip-hopEddie Vedder, Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, Mike McCready, and Matt Cameron have been one of rock's most reliably live focused bands for over three decades, and Dark Matter carries that energy into the studio with a directness that longtime fans will recognize immediately. Watt pushed the band toward a rawer, more aggressive sound than recent efforts, landing somewhere close to the urgency that made their early '90s run so galvanizing. Rock & Roll Hall