The filmmaker and music journalist is hitting the road with his new memoir — a nationwide tour packed with special guests, including Eddie Vedder hosting the Seattle stop.
Cameron Crowe is back in the spotlight with his long-awaited memoir, The Uncool, dropping October 28, 2025 via Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster. The book dives into the stories and inspirations that shaped his legendary career in film and music.
To celebrate the release, Crowe is hitting the road for his first book tour since Fast Times at Ridgemont High, presented by Live Nation. Each city will feature a special guest, and Crowe is stoked to share behind-the-scenes tales and the vibes that fueled his new book.
THE UNCOOL BOOK TOUR
- Oct 28 – New York, NY with Questlove (launch event)
- Oct 30 – Nashville, TN with Sheryl Crow
- Nov 1 – Chicago, IL (guest TBD)
- Nov 13 – San Diego, CA with Kate Hudson
- Nov 17 – Seattle, WA (hosted by Eddie Vedder)
- Nov 20 – Los Angeles, CA (guest TBD)
- Nov 21 – Los Angeles, CA (guest TBD)
- Nov 23 – San Francisco, CA (guest TBD)
Tickets are on sale now via Live Nation.
The Seattle gig is extra special: Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam frontman, will be hosting the night at Benaroya Hall on November 17. The event, An Intimate Conversation with Music Journalist and Filmmaker Cameron Crowe, runs about two hours and promises an epic meet-up between two legends of music and movies. Fans are already dreaming of surprise drops by Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, or Mike McCready.
With The Uncool, Crowe takes readers on a trip through the musical, cinematic, and personal influences that shaped him, turning the book into a live, intimate, can’t-miss experience.
Pearl Jam crew has been tight with Cameron Crowe since way back in ’92, when they jumped on the Singles soundtrack and even showed up in the movie as the fake band Citizen Dick — with Matt Dillon rockin’ the mic as frontman Cliff Poncier.
A few years later, Crowe directed the The Fixer music video in 2009, and then dropped Pearl Jam Twenty in 2011 — a must-watch doc that dives deep into the band’s first two decades of pure rock history.
Born in Reggio Emilia in 1980. He created pearljamonline.it in 2001 and wrote the first edition of “Pearl Jam Evolution” in 2009 along with his wife Daria. Since 2022, he is behind 2 podcasts: “Pearl Jam dalla A alla Z” and “Fuori Orario Not Another Podcast”. He has collaborated with Barracuda Style, HvsR, Rolling Stone, Rockol and Il Fatto Quotidiano. He continues relentlessly to try to find “beautiful melodies that say terrible things”.
Favorite song: Present Tense
Favorite album: No Code
Favorite bands/artists other than PJ: Tom Waits, Soundgarden, Ramones, Bruce Springsteen, IDLES, Fontaines D.C., Mark Lanegan, R.E.M., Radiohead, Cat Power, Dead Kennedys