… is coming out in 3 weeks. With no record label. It’s called Backspacer.

Meanwhile, some thoughts from lead singer Eddie Vedder:

You’d like to be able to go to work and have everything be smooth, but there’s some weird artistic gene in some of us. It can feel like a curse, because it makes you push yourself to make things better and not allow them to be easy. That’s how you get the good stuff.

Looking forward to the good stuff. From Eddie and his band, and other places.

I can relate to that “pushing yourself” part. My brain is a bit of a mush these days from all of that pushing on my own writing. But I’m recovering. Slowly. Thinking about that new story idea and all…