woohoo!

Um, YAY.

SEATTLE -- Seattle rock band Pearl Jam announced Wednesday that it will release its eighth studio album — and first since 2002 — in early May.

The self-titled CD is also its first release on its new label, J Records.

The album's first single, "World Wide Suicide," will be made available to radio stations March 8, and the same day the song will be available as a free download from the band's Web site, http://www.pearljam.com.

Tour dates in support of "Pearl Jam" will be announced later this month, the band said in a news release.

Pearl Jam was formed in 1991 and rose to prominence during the Northwest's early 1990s grunge movement. The band has sold nearly 60 million albums worldwide.

I will have to download the new single from their website, because rock radio hardly exists at all in this city anymore. This is the case in a lot of cities, I know. I just read (I forget where. Spin maybe?) that K-Rock changed formats recently. How sad. I stopped listening to the radio about 6 or 7 years ago, but it's still sad.

I keep forgetting I have a website.