Loaded with deep cuts that never made the OG tracklists.
September 26, 2025, mark your calendars – two Seattle rock milestones are making a big-time comeback. We’re talking Shine (1989) and Apple (1990), freshly remastered and packed with extras for the diehards.
These aren’t just for vinyl nerds – this is for anyone who wants to tap back into that early spark that eventually lit the fuse for Pearl Jam.
Shine – the EP that kicked it all off
Cut in just five days at London Bridge Studios in Seattle, Shine was MLB’s opening shot. Andy Wood and the crew dropped something wild: a sound they called “love rock,” a crazy blend of influences that nobody else was doing back then.
Stone Gossard explained why they started with an EP: “We put it out ‘cause we wanted to stir up some buzz around the band and figure out the business side – tours, all that stuff we needed to learn.”
Andy? He was all about the mix: “Man, we’ve got so many influences that it turned into this weird hybrid of rock, love rock. Our drummer? Huge into King Crimson and Bill Bruford, then it jumps straight to KISS. Bruce is all about Duane Allman and the Eagles, I’m more T-Rex and KISS. Jeff’s into Bad Company. It’s all rock, but all over the map.”
This 2025 drop? Brand new mastering and an extra treat on the CD – Capricorn Sister (Album Version). Hardcore fans know it from On Earth As It Is – The Complete Works (2016) and an earlier version on the bonus disc of the 1992 Mother Love Bone compilation, but it was never on the original Shine.
August 11 saw the Ten Club-only Purple Haze vinyl sell out in hours. Same day, pre-orders opened for the Sky Blue and standard black vinyls, plus the CD with the bonus track.
Official drop date: September 26, 2025. Digital version hits all streaming platforms starting August 14, 2025.
Apple – the one and only full-length
Late ’89, MLB hit the Record Plant in Sausalito with producer Terry Date to cut their debut album. It dropped in July 1990, just after Andy’s tragic passing, and instantly became a cult classic.
Jeff Ament summed up how much it meant: “It’s kinda weird, but I spent the last two and a half years of my life basically living, eating, and breathing Mother Love Bone. Doing these interviews is the only way I can show how important Apple is. I’m proud of what we did, and as far as Andy goes, people need to know he existed and made music that mattered.”
The 2025 reissue brings two tracks back into the spotlight: Gentle Groove and Mr. Danny Boy. Both showed up on Mother Love Bone (1992) and On Earth As It Is – The Complete Works (2016), but never on the OG album lineup.
Ten Club members grabbed an exclusive colored vinyl on August 11 – sold out fast. Public pre-orders opened the same day for the standard vinyl and CD.
Official release: September 26, 2025.
Japan gets the deluxe treatment
October 10, 2025 – Japan gets a killer limited-edition box: Mini-LP / SHM-2CD set featuring both Shine and Apple in their new versions. Super rare, bound to become collector gold.
With these reissues, Shine and Apple are back in style – bigger, better, and loaded with tracks missing from the OGs. If you’ve never gone deep with MLB, this is your shot.
While you wait, Ten Club just dropped two exclusives: Let’s Play Two (Danny Clinch, 2017) and the full pro-shot of Pearl Jam’s 2014 Moline show – the night they played No Code front-to-back.
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