Party like it's 1994!

A Pearl Jam retrospective Rearviewmirror and a repackaged edition of Pavement's classic LP Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain? What with the Nirvana box set about to appear, it's like the last decade never happened!

Elsewhere: Dave Eggers extols the educational virtues of rock. It seems a bit strange to be thanking Sting for anything at all, but providing an introduction to Nabokov is indeed deserving of gratitude.