The Seattle Mariners might have finished light years out of the most recent playoff picture, but the band that helped popularize the grunge sound of the Pacific Northwest will be alive and well during the upcoming World Series.
Pearl Jam, fresh off the release of their tenth studio album “Lightning Bolt” will be providing the soundtrack to this year’s World Series telecast…a concept that would have been hard to imagine in years past.
"There was a period of time when we didn't license much music," Pearl Jam manager Kelly Curtis told Billboard. "But for the past many years, we consider licensing requests using the same criteria we do for everything else: Do we like it? Would the fans like it? Does it provide a different forum for fans to hear the music? Is it something we can get behind? The band loves baseball, so this one was a no-brainer."
The deal with FOX Sports includes the dozen tracks from Peal Jam’s current release and 36 more from the band’s 23-year-old catalog.
"They said, 'What songs would you want?' I said, 'How many can I have?' So we gave them a wish list and they said 'yes' to all,” Fox Sports Music VP Janine Kerr added.
According to Billboard, the band will be featured throughout the World Series telecasts and in about every way imaginable…from opening teases and commercial bumpers to montages, as well as during additional promotional inventory across FOX prime-time and cable networks in November.
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