Josh Klinghoffer
Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament on Bill Simmons’ Podcast: 5 Things We Learned
Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament was a guest today (May 6) on The Bill Simmons Podcast, where he discussed the band’s long-awaited return to touring, his enduring NBA fandom, how he hopes the experience of recording the score for the new FX on Hulu show Under the Banner of Heaven will rub off on Pearl Jam and much more. Here are five things we learned from the conversation, which was taped the day after Pearl Jam’s tour-opening performance in San Diego on Tuesday. The band is back on stage tonight and tomorrow at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles in support of its 2020 album, Gigaton. Ament wants Pearl Jam to make shorter records and release them more frequently: Riffing on a Simmons question about how to keep an audience’s attention in the age of ephemeral TikTok memes, Ament said he and his bandm...
Josh Klinghoffer Goes Back to the Future in Latest Pluralone Video
Josh Klinghoffer utilizes a deserted concrete bunker as an unexpected performance space in the new video for “Offend,” drawn from his latest album under the Pluralone moniker, This Is the Show. Klinghoffer strums a red, white and blue acoustic guitar in the Stephi Duckula-directed clip and is eventually accompanied by a doppelganger of himself on drums, before he climbs back out of the giant structure and wanders off into the surrounding desert. [embedded content][embedded content] “Once upon a time, this video we did looked rather like the future,” Klinghoffer says. “I’m thinking I’d like to go back to that future and look around, for the one that lies ahead seems a bit scary.” The former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist/current Pearl Jam touring multi-instrumentalist told SPIN earlier thi...
Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament Scores Under the Banner of Heaven TV Adaptation
FX on Hulu’s new adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s best-selling book Under the Banner of Heaven has fans buzzing as much for its content as for project star Andrew Garfield’s recent revelation that he would be taking a hiatus from acting. Now, music fans will have added reason to check out the show, with the announcement that Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament has crafted its soundtrack. Ament has been working on the music at his home studio in Montana since last October, in tandem with Pearl Jam touring member Josh Klinghoffer and longtime band associate Josh Evans, who produced Pearl Jam’s most recent album, Gigaton. John Wicks, Ament’s collaborator in his side project Deaf Charlie, was also involved in the sessions, according to a tweet from Ament on Pearl Jam’s account. Each episode features 25 minutes...
Josh Klinghoffer Gets on With ‘The Show’ on New Pluralone Album
When it comes to Josh Klinghoffer’s musical output, it helps to have Google and Wikipedia handy to keep track of his voluminous work on dozens of projects by everyone from PJ Harvey and Gnarls Barkley to his own bands Dot Hacker and Pluralone. Of course, the 42-year-old Los Angeles native is best known for his 10-year stint playing guitar in the Red Hot Chili Peppers, which ended in 2019. Since then, he joined Pearl Jam as a touring member and wrote and recorded with Eddie Vedder on his latest solo album, Earthling. And in tandem with Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and producer/guitarist Andrew Watt, Klinghoffer just wrapped a short U.S. tour with Vedder in support of the project, during which he was forced to miss a Chicago show after contracting COVID-19 on the road. Klinghoffer had pl...
Josh Klinghoffer’s Pluralone Shares New Song ‘Claw Your Way Out’
Josh Klinghoffer, under the moniker Pluralone, embraced the desolation of the pandemic to create the opposite. The ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist spent the past year working on new music. Before he heads out on the road as part of Eddie Vedder’s Earthlings next week, Klinghoffer shared a new Pluralone single titled “Claw Your Way Out.” “Claw Your Way Out” features former Jane’s Addiction bassist Eric Avery and Dot Hacker bandmate Eric Gardner on drums. The song was produced by another Dot Hacker bandmate, guitarist Clint Walsh. Its dreamy synths surround sharp beats and Klinghoffer’s high-pitched drawl, and as a whole, renders his growth in musicianship as a solo artist. The chorus allows the synths to trickle over Klinghoffer’s persuasive croon, “claw your way out, claw your way out.”...
Josh Klinghoffer Pays Tribute to Betty White With Golden Girls Theme Song Cover
Last year threw us one last middle finger on Dec. 31 and took away Betty White, just weeks before her 100th birthday. Tributes to the beloved actress came pouring in immediately, including one from Josh Klinghoffer. The former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist shared a cover of the Golden Girls theme song on Instagram along with a thoughtful end-of-year message. “Outside my window is the last dusk of 2021. Not quite sure what to say about this year. As always, it seems like it just begun and at the same time so much has happened this year, I guess,” he wrote. “I’ll keep it brief. I had to be poked to check in here because my tendency, as some might know, is to stay away from these awful websites.” “There has been a lot of loss lately, a lot of endings,” Klinghoffe...
36 Musicians Predict the 2021-22 NBA Season
If it feels like the previous NBA season just ended, well, it sort of did. The Milwaukee Bucks triumphed over the Phoenix Suns, capturing the franchise’s second title in mid-July, and here we are in mid-October with the league ready to tipoff again. Once again, we polled music’s biggest NBA fans to give their takes on how the upcoming season is going to unfold. Unlike last season (more like 2019), we asked for some general thoughts, musing and predictions. As you’ll see in a moment, there are a lot of Lakers and Sixers fans (and they seem pretty optimistic about their team’s chances this season). Here’s what our musician panel had to say about the 2021-22 NBA season. Mark LaneganLos Angeles Clippers They finally made it to the Western Conference finals, which I never thought would hap...
Josh Klinghoffer’s Pluralone Unveils Two New Songs From Upcoming 7-Inch
The past year and a half has been quite prolific for Josh Klinghoffer. Departing Red Hot Chili Peppers in December 2019 could have derailed him, but Klinghoffer has been on a tear ever since. Even during the pandemic, Klinghoffer was busy working on his own music as Pluralone in addition to joining Pearl Jam as a touring member and as a guitarist in Eddie Vedder’s new band, which debuted at Ohana Festival last Friday. Ahead of his first live Pluralone performance, Klinghoffer has a pair of new songs to share titled “Across the Park” and “Sevens.” “Once again, the way the ball bounces, as they say, these songs were the last ones from the I Don’t Feel Well period,” Klinghoffer told SPIN via email. “‘Across The Park’ is a song about a famous relationship gone horrendously wrong. Life never st...
Watch Eddie Vedder Play With Josh Klinghoffer and Foo Fighters Perform With AC/DC’s Brian Johnson at Global Citizen’s VAX Live Event
On Saturday night, Global Citizen aired VAX Live: The Concert to Reunite the World — a virtual event aimed “to help end COVID-19 for all, end the hunger crisis, resume learning everywhere, protect the planet, and advance equity for all.” The hourlong show, hosted by Selena Gomez, kicked off with Eddie Vedder playing two songs with a backing band that featured former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer and the rhythm section of White Reaper. Together, they thrashed through a punky version of Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy track “Corduroy” and a cover of Little Steven Van Zandt’s 1984 anthem “I Am a Patriot.” “We need governments to stop stockpiling vaccines — and to share their excess doses. Now. We need pharmaceutical companies to provid...
Josh Klinghoffer’s Pluralone to Unveil Earth Day EP
When we spoke to Josh Klinghoffer last year after he departed the Red Hot Chili Peppers, he told us he had many other individual projects he was working on — and he wasn’t kidding. Last July saw him (under the moniker Pluralone) release a single featuring tunes that he recorded with former bandmate Flea and fellow ex-Chili Pepper Jack Irons, along with a song from another LP. Earlier this year, he released a Dot Hacker single. And now, he’s back as Pluralone with an EP set for release in time for Earth Day. Aptly titled Mother Nature, the EP includes two new versions of “Mother Nature” (a track from the last album) along with four unreleased B-sides. “If someone said, ‘Mother Nature, thoughts?’ there are a few preposterous things that would come to mind,” Klinghoffer to...
62 Musicians Predict the 2021 Baseball Season
Somehow, some way, it’s baseball season again. Yes, already. Last year’s abbreviated run saw the Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Tampa Bay Rays in six games to win their first World Series title in 32 years, something that Ben Gibbard predicted in our 2020 preview. As you can imagine, Dodgers fans — especially the ones below — are in great spirits heading into the 2021 season. So what does that mean about this year? Absolutely nothing. As COVID restrictions start to loosen and with more fans allowed back into stadiums, excitement is beginning to buzz, especially with our group of experts. Like last time, many are hopeful that this will be their team’s year. We searched far and wide to get predictions for the upcoming Major League Baseball season, creating a proper barometer of what these su...
Josh Klinghoffer Shares ‘The Report’ From Upcoming Pluralone Album
Josh Klinghoffer easily could have retreated this year and no one would have blamed him. He was dismissed by the Red Hot Chili Peppers last December and as a solo artist he was slated to open up Pearl Jam’s 2020 arena tour in support of Gigaton. As we know, that was wisely one of the first tours postponed due to the pandemic. Instead of wallowing, Klinghoffer, who releases music under the Pluralone moniker, got creative. He went back to work on his second album (the first was quietly released last November) and put out — in 2020 alone — a series of covers, a seven-inch single that featured current and former Red Hot Chili Peppers Flea and Jack Irons, and now, a new album. I Don’t Feel Well is out this Friday (and an apt album title for 2020) and ahead of the release, Klingho...
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