Video: Eddie Vedder My City of Ruins Bruce Springsteen at the Kennedy Center Honors

The day seems like a blur ... the first word from a counter person at Starbucks, tuning in the car radio where the usually placid voices were now frantic and fearful, faces in front of a conference room TV. Even thousands of miles away, you could feel the dread and terror so many experienced that day in the streets of Manhattan. Were you sad for the people who died? That would come later. That moment, when I stood watching the towers crumble on TV and later that night, seeing the solemn newscasters with a burning NYC skyline as [...]

Eddie Vedder is lending his heavyweight status to the Haitian relief efforts, by making his cover of Bruce Springsteen's "My City of Ruins" (from the recent Kennedy Center Honors special), available for download on the band's website and through ITunes for .99. Here's the video of the performance, so you can taste test befor you get into any agreements or exchanges of .99. It's a good one whether you come in just wanting to watch something or want to feel inspired into another round (or first round) of giving.

Filed under: News , New Music , New Releases Eddie Vedder has released his performance of the Bruce Springsteen song 'My City of Ruins' as a single with proceeds going to Artists for Peace and Justice Haiti Relief. The Pearl Jam frontman's tribute to Springsteen -- taken from last month's Kennedy Center Honors -- is available through the band's Ten Club and iTunes for $.99. Meanwhile, Pearl Jam's Vitalogy Foundation has pledged $200,000 to relief [...]