Pearl Jam, “Dark Matter.” Pearl Jam is easily America’s most reliable rock band. Dark Matter  Pearl Jam Republic, April 19 8/10 Get the album on Amazon Music. The last survivors of the early ’90s golden age in the Pacific Northwest have nothing to prove after 33 years. Yet they…

Iggy Pop, “Every Loser.” Iggy Pop is 75 years old and can be forgiven for being tired. The Stooges’ first record came out in 1969, when the flippin Beatles still existed. Every Loser Iggy Pop Gold Tooth, Jan. 6 8/10 Get the album on Amazon Music. Iggy invented punk…

Eddie Vedder, “Earthling.” It could easily be said that Eddie Vedder is one lucky man, even if he likely makes his own luck. Earthling Eddie Vedder Seattle Surf/Republic, Feb. 11 8/10 He’s one of the last living frontmen of the great Pacific Northwest rock bands of the early ’90s, in…

Cultural phenomenon Ozzy Osbourne is a hard man to pin down. Is he the originator of the look and feel of heavy metal? A guy who managed to be in the right place at the right time? A doddering madman, deteriorated by decades of drug excess? Ordinary Man Ozzy…