Just over a year after kicking off their most intense tour since 2006, Pearl Jam have officially dropped the complete bootleg boxset from the Dark Matter World Tour 2024/2025.
The tour – which started 14 months ago – took the band across 8 time zones and 30 cities, playing in front of hundreds of thousands of fans. Across five legs, PJ tore through their three-decade catalog, mixing iconic classics with fresh Dark Matter tracks and longtime white whales like Gremmie Outta Control, which finally made its live debut – 29 years after its original studio release.
Now, for all the bootleg lovers and collectors out there, the full boxset featuring all 48 shows is available: each boot includes 2 CDs, a full setlist, and custom artwork for every single date.
Already started your collection? You can grab the empty box too – designed after Jeff Ament’s dressing room case – to store all your 2024/25 shows in one epic place.
The box set is now available at pearljam.com.
🎁 BONUS – Present Tense (Redux): Past Meets Present
Straight from the band’s latest newsletter comes a killer behind-the-scenes story about Present Tense (Redux) – the stripped-down acoustic version of the No Code classic, featured on Pearl Jam’s new EP inspired by The Last of Us.
Producer Josh Evans explained that it all began with a collab between Mike McCready and The Last of Us co-creator Neil Druckmann. Right after season one, Mike and Josh started recording acoustic takes of the song, sending Neil various demos and clips. When the time felt right, they used tracks from the Dolby Atmos remix of No Code and laid new acoustic parts on top of the original 1996 stems.
The final cut? It blends Ed’s 1996 vocals, Mike’s fresh acoustic guitar, and – in the outro – a live take pulled from a 2016 soundcheck. As Evans put it: “The song’s called Present Tense, but nothing about it actually happened at the same time. It’s like reaching into the past and the now and tying them together. Intense, right?”
Just another example of how Pearl Jam keep evolving – without ever losing their soul.
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