Pearl Jam album, film, tour in the works

Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band and the Beastie Boys will headline the second annual Outside Lands, which returns to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, for three days beginning August 28. Other notable performers include Incubus, M.I.A., Mars Volta, Modest Mouse, Black Eyed Peas and a highly-anticipated set by Jack White’s newest band Dead Weather (featuring members of the Raconteurs, Queens of the Stone Age and the Kills ).

Pearl Jam also has completed 14 songs for a new album and is working on a film with director Cameron Crowe, guitarist Mike McCready said in a recent radio interview. McCready told Seattle’s “Ron & Don Show” that the band is about halfway finished with its next album. McCready said the band expects to have the album out before the end of this year. Pearl Jam will self-release the album, its ninth.