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Pearl Jam Made It To The World Series

Pearl Jam

According to Spin.com, Pearl Jam will be the soundtrack to this year’s World Series. The Seattle grunge band has licensed 48 songs — including all 12 from their newly streaming Lightning Bolt — to Fox Sports for the network’s coverage of Major League Baseball‘s championship battle, running October 23 to 31.

The selections cover the band’s catalog, touching on every one of their studio albums except 2002’s Riot Act, which took aim at President George W. Bush and “hollow patriotism.” 

Eddie Vedder and the gang have been known not only for a left-leaning worldview over the years, but also for eschewing corporate team-ups. Their manager Kelly Curtis told Billboard this was a natural fit: “There was a period of time when we didn’t license much music, but for the past many years, we consider licensing requests using the same criteria we do for everything else: Do we like it? Would the fans like it? Does it provide a different forum for fans to hear the music? Is it something we can get behind? The band loves baseball, so this one was a no-brainer.”

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