Stone Gossard

The turn of the millennium found grunge icons Pearl Jam in a very introspective state.

If there's a lesson to be learned from Pearl Jam's antagonistic 2006 album, it's that sometimes you have to be angry before you can ever be happy.

Pearl Jam were reconfiguring themselves as a band whose ambitions transcended traditional measures of success, and that meant making a record on their own shifting terms.

Adrift in mid-career doldrums, Pearl Jam grappled with devastating loss and political angst by releasing one of their most muscular and weird albums.

With a different name but an unmistakeable sound, Mookie Blaylock (aka Pearl jam) made a pit stop on their way to superstardom at Seattle's Off Ramp Cafe on October 22, 1990.

Nobody ever set out to be a grunge icon — at least nobody who actually became one.

If you're just finding out about the limited edition 7" released by Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard and singer-songwriter Mason Jennings, you're already too late to get one.