Blog: Mixtape Maestro

Just as we had finally started to come around to the seemingly bizarro reality of Pearl Jam being the cats behind this past summer's irresistibly catchy rocker "The Fixer" (and don't act like you didn't have a hard time pairing the band with the feel-good single either), the grunge godfathers go and throw us another mind-jumbling curveball by including an actual LOVE BALLAD on their newest release, Backspacer . And by love ballad, we don't mean a depressing romantic lament that would have fit in line with everything we've come to expect from [...]