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Show American Piano Quartet Mysic Pearl Jam not toast 'Backspaced shows veteran band getting better with age ' Ann Powers '" world. Tickets are available at the Harris Fine Arts Ticket Office, at www.byuarts.com, or by calling (801) 4224277. LOS ANGELES TIMES thousand rock 'n' roll cliches have been built around the idea that guts and glory belong to the young, Pearl Jam's ninth studio album, "Backspacer," released Tuesday, makes the opposite argument. Its 11 breakneck rockers and candidly emotional ballads, adding up to barely more than a half hour of optimally toned catharsis, gain power from the band's calm but constant awareness of life's ticking clock. "I gotta say it now, better loud than too late," Eddie Vedder wails in "Amongst the Waves" the . closest thing to an oceanic jam on "Backspacer," and at 3 12 minutes Pearl Jam it's pretty much a When: Monday at shore dump. More 7:30 p.m. than half of the feature here Where: The E Center, songs fast beats and 3200 S. Decker Lake screaming guitars Dr., West Valley City instead of the more Also on the bill: encontemplative Ben Harper and semble journeys for which Pearl Relentless7 Jam appearing Tickets: Monday at the E available at the box Center in West A If you go U.S. Coast Guard Band The United States Coast Guard Band Saxophone Quartet will be performing a free concert on Oct. 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Madsen Recital Hall at Brigham Young University. The quartet, which perform in recitals and concerts around the nation, made an appearance on "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno in 2002. The quartet consists of chief musicians Josh Thomas and Adam Williamson, and musicians first class Greg Case and Jeff Jjjt Emerich. For more information, call Ken Crossley at (801) 422-934- I THE $50-$6- office or through is Valley City Ticketmaster loca- famous. But speed isn't tions the main point. Cell www.ticketmaster. phone lifters such com) as "Just Breathe," Info: (801) jVedder's lovely www.theecenter.com celebration of life with the wife, don't wander either; he still has a philosophical bent, this time the lyricist (writing all the words for the first in many years) mostly keeps things Pearl Jam Pearl Jam, which recently released its ninth studio album, "Backspacer," will perform at the E Center in West Valley City on Monday. - guitarists Mike McCready and Stone Gossard, maulers "Got Some" and "The Fixer" have a punk edge, but they're also pop just like the prime work of Ved-der- 's favorite bands, the Who and the Accessible without sacrificing sophistication, aggressive without flailing, the music on "Backspacer" testifies to the skill of a group locked into its groove but refusing to be bored with it. hard-drivin- rt big-bo- CHARTS Weekly charts for the nation's recorded music as they appear in next week's issue of Billboard magazine. Reprinted with permission. Hot 100 often playful vocals, dder's come from Pearl Jam's members taking this mUsic seriously, honing in and nailing it. Brendan O'Brien's production is radio-smabut not intrusive. The directness of these tracks is what Pearl Jam aimed for on its own, and there's still plenty of attention to detail, including some of lead and the pleasures personal, considering mor his own guitarist McCready 's best work of late. tests of family life, love and This effort is not a throwaway, nor tal body. That's one thing about middle age: You is it a switch-u- p simplyx meant to move The music remains complex, even when retail partner, units at the band's are who you are, and either you have a like a beer party. Promoting the crisis about that or you celebrate the fact. Target. ("Backspacer" is also available at album, Vedder has been comparing the independent record stores and through References to death, addiction and love rhythm section of Jeff Ament and Matt iTunes, Rock Band and the band's Ten Cameron to Motown's fabled players, and as redemption abound on "Backspacer," he's almost right. They're more like a clas- but it's interesting to consider how those Club.) It's proof of what a bunch of sic rock team (Entwistle-Mootopics, so central to psychology and spiri- grown people can accomplish when they early know exactly what they want. as sharp as the soul players tuality, motivate the album's sound. Pearl Jam, "Backspacer" (Monkey-wrenc- h of the and playThe dexterity but more hopped up and argumentative. lightness Records), four stars out of four. and of Ve- "Backspacer," little from hot riffs throughout ing with Peppered 988-888- The American Piano Quartet will perform Tuesday in the de Jong Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. The group will perform arrangements of the "Grand Galop Chromatique" by Franz Liszt and the "Slavonic Dances" op. 46 by Antonin Dvorak, as well as a "Ragtime Medley" by Robert Bailey. The quartet was formed in 1984 when member Paul Pollei received a piece of music from a student's grandmother designed for four pianists. The quartet performed the piece and have since performed across the 1. 1 Gotta Feeling, The Black Eyed Peas 2. Down, Jay Sean ft. Lil Wayne 3. Party in the U.SA, Miley Cyrus 4. Run This Town, and Kanye West Jay-- Rihanna, 5. Use Somebody, Kings of Leon TopIIip-IIo- p Albums 1. Jay-- The Blueprint 3 2. Only Built for Cuban Linx Pt. 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