NORTH AMERICAN TOUR 2022 ANNOUNCEMENT

After two years, Pearl Jam will hit the road with their 2020 North American tour dates officially rescheduled for May and September 2022, including four newly added shows in Fresno, Sacramento, Camden, and Las Vegas. Josh Klinghoffer’s solo project, Pluralone, will open for Pearl Jam on this tour. Klinghoffer will also join Pearl Jam as a touring member on these dates.

In continuing their ongoing commitment to address the band’s carbon footprint, Pearl Jam has committed to pay $200 per ton for carbon dioxide mitigation from the Gigaton tour, a ten-fold increase from prior years. By increasing how much they're putting towards their offset, Pearl Jam will be able to pursue a multi-layered strategy of offsets and investments for a more comprehensive mitigation plan. More info will be made available soon. Learn more about the band's carbon mitigation work.

Stone Gossard explains, “We are proud of our prior efforts to mitigate our inevitable carbon footprint from touring over the past 20 years but the time to multiply that effort is clearly right now.  By committing to this aggressive pricing, we hope to equally amplify our efforts and gather partners who share our urgency to make the investments and innovations required to move our world to a more conscious, carbon balanced economy.”   

Support for the tour comes courtesy of Pluralone, the solo project of former Red Hot Chilli Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer. The axeman will also join Pearl Jam onstage as their fourth guitarist, having debuted as part of their touring line-up last September.

The tour comes in support of the band’s 11th album, ‘Gigaton’, which landed in March of 2020. In a three-star review, NME’s Anita Bhagwandas wrote: “Pearl Jam have, undoubtedly, as pioneers and figures that have shaped rock history, earned the right to make whatever the fuck they like. But the question is whether anyone is still listening any more? With this multi-faceted record, the answer is likely yes. It just won’t change your life.”

Back in January, frontman Eddie Vedder revealed that Pearl Jam were looking to record their next album with producer, guitarist and songwriter Andrew Watt. The pair worked together on Vedder’s just-released third solo album, ‘Earthlings’ – which also earned three stars from NME – while Watt also has a history with Justin Bieber, working with the pop star on seven tracks from 2021’s ‘Justice’.