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To support Pearl Jam , Pearl Jam embarked on its 2006 world tour. It toured North America, Australia and notably Europe; Pearl Jam had not toured the continent for six years. The band served as the headliners for the Leeds and Reading festivals, despite having vowed to never play at a festival again after Roskilde. Vedder started both concerts with an emotional plea to the crowd to look after each other. He commented during the Leeds set that Pearl Jam's decision to play a festival for the first time after Roskilde had nothing to do with "guts" but with trust in the audience.
With the success of Ten, Pearl Jam became a key member of the Seattle grunge explosion, along with Nirvana, Alice in Chains, and Soundgarden. The band was criticized in the music press; British music magazine NME said that Pearl Jam was "trying to steal money from young alternative kids' pockets". Nirvana's Kurt Cobain angrily attacked Pearl Jam , claiming Pearl Jam were commercial sellouts, and argued Ten was not a true alternative album because it had so many prominent guitar leads. Cobain later reconciled with Vedder, and they reportedly became friends before Cobain's death in 1994.
The band, and especially frontman Eddie Vedder, have been vocal supporters of the pro-choice movement. In 1992 Spin printed an article by Vedder, entitled "Reclamation", that detailed Pearl Jam's views on abortion. In an MTV Unplugged concert the same year, Vedder stood on a stool and wrote "PRO-CHOICE!" on Pearl Jam's arm in protest. The band are members of a number of pro-choice organizations, including Choice USA and Voters for Choice.
Binaural and the Roskilde tragedy: 2000-2001
Released on August 27, 1996, No Code was seen as a deliberate break from Pearl Jam's sound since Ten, favoring experimental ballads and noisy garage rockers. Although the album debuted at number one on the Billboard charts, it quickly fell down the charts. No Code included the singles "Hail, Hail", "Who You Are" (sample (helpåáinfo)), and "Off He Goes". As with Vitalogy, very little touring was done to promote No Code because of Pearl Jam's refusal to play in Ticketmaster's venue areas. A European tour followed in the fall of 1996.
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Dealing with success: 1993-1995
Pearl Jam's 2000 European tour ended in tragedy on June 30, with an accident at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark. Nine fans were crushed underfoot and suffocated to death as the crowd rushed to the front. The band stopped playing and tried to calm the crowd when the musicians realized what was happening, but it was already too late. The two remaining dates of the tour were canceled, and Pearl Jam seriously considered retiring after this event. Pearl Jam was initially blamed for the accident, but Pearl Jam was later cleared of responsibility.
Clive Davis announced in February 2006 that Pearl Jam had signed with Pearl Jam's label, J Records, which like Epic, is part of the Sony BMG group. The band's eighth studio album, Pearl Jam , was released on May 2, 2006. A number of critics cited Pearl Jam as a return to Pearl Jam's early sound, with Mike McCready having compared the new material to Vs. in a 2005 interview. "World Wide Suicide", a song criticizing the Iraq War and U.S. foreign policy, was released as a single and topped the Billboard Modern Rock chart; it was Pearl Jam Pearl Jam tour's first number one on that chart since "Who You Are" in 1996, and first number one on any chart in the United States since 1998 when "Given to Fly" reached number one on the Mainstream Rock chart.