Listen / Watch: Judd Apatow interviews Pearl Jam via World Cafe and NPR Music

Pearl Jam releases their new album, Lightning Bolt, on Tuesday, October 15th. You can listen to it now in its entirety on the Pearl Jam artist page here via iTunes.

Today, NPR Music premieres a video – and World Cafe, the radio version – of a conversation with Pearl Jam and writer and director Judd Apatow that you can watch and listen to below. World Cafe will broadcast the interview in two parts. Listen to part one below; it will also be broadcast today on WXPN at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. ET and on stations around the country here. Part two will run tomorrow on World Cafe.

Writing about the video, NPR Music’s Ann Powers says:

It’s a pleasure to watch these interviews. Through the Apatow interviews, a full portrait of Pearl Jam at 26 emerges. Guitarist Stone Gossard’s words on “digging in” get to the heart of what it’s like to be in a long-standing working unit. Jeff Ament’s joy in playing with his mates shines through his enthusiastic responses. Matt Cameron, the band’s drummer, shows his acerbic cool. Mike McCready talks about the meticulousness with which he still approaches his guitar solos. And Eddie Vedder , philosophical as always, hones in on how he keeps making Pearl Jam new for himself and for the band’s loyal fan base.

Listen to part one of the World Cafe segment below, and watch NPR Music’s video of the interview.

After closing the Spectrum with four shows in 2009, and performing Made in America in 2012, the band plays the Wells Fargo Center on Monday, October 21st and October 22nd. Get tickets and information on the show here. Pre-order Lightning Bolt here.