Pearl Jam to Open 2025 North American Tour with Stop at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood

_{Pearl Jam's 2025 Dark Matter Tour will kick off with two performances at Hard Rock Live venue. (Image: Australian Associated Press / Alamy)}

After spending much of 2024 overseas, Seattle grunge rock legends Pearl Jam are coming home. In 2025, the band — led by vocalist Eddie Vedder, drummer Matt Cameron, and lead guitarist Mike McCready — will bring the music from their latest release, Dark Matter, to various locations across the United States. 

The US leg will begin at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood concert venue, recently hailed as one of the best in the world.

Pearl Jam to Kick Off 2025 Tour in South Florida

After wrapping up a November tour through Oceania, including stops in Auckland, New Zealand, Melbourne, and Sydney, Australia, the band has been taking it easy, regenerating for the US swing that begins in April. 

The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino’s Hard Rock Live will be the venue for the first stops by the Seattle-based band. And there’s a reason for “stops” — Pearl Jam will play two dates at Hard Rock Live to usher in 2025.

On April 24 and 25 (Thursday and Friday), Pearl Jam will perform as part of their Dark Matter Tour, which has seen the band crisscross the US and around the world.

Tickets for these shows are already on sale, but if you’re a die-hard Pearl Jam fan, be prepared to open your wallet. The all-in pricing — a process Ticketmaster uses to show the upfront costs of buying a ticket — lists the cheapest ticket at just under $900 ($895.47) in the upper reaches of the arena. Other areas climb to nearly $1,000 ($995.47) for an upper deck center seat. (No seats are available on the lower levels or the floor.)

If you can’t make it to a Florida casino for the tour’s opening, there are other opportunities to see the band. Atlanta’s State Farm Arena is the next stop after Hard Rock Live, with the band performing on April 29 and May 1. Here are the remaining confirmed dates:

What makes the Pearl Jam stop at Hard Rock Live so special is that a concert tour rarely begins at a casino property. However, Hard Rock Live in Hollywood has proven itself to be a standout venue. 

It was ranked No. 4 by Billboard for venues with seating between 5,000 and 10,000. Only Radio City Music Hall in New York City, Dolby Live in Las Vegas, and Red Rocks in Colorado ranked ahead of Hard Rock Live.

From Grunge to Rock Immortality

The genesis of Pearl Jam came from tragedy. Founding members McCready and bassist Jeff Ament’s previous bands — the groundbreaking Green River and Mother Love Bone — disbanded after tragic events, including the death of Mother Love Bone vocalist Andrew Wood. This led them to join forces with guitarist Stone Gossard and Vedder, forming the early iterations of Pearl Jam.

In 1991, nearly simultaneously with another soon-to-be rock legend, Nirvana's Nevermind, Pearl Jam released Ten. That album catapulted them into the rock and roll mainstream, a place the band has never left.

Drummer Dave Abruzzese handled percussion for Ten and the two follow-ups, Vs. and Vitalogy, until he was dismissed following disagreements over the band’s clash with Ticketmaster over ticket pricing.

Jack Irons, who had been invited to play drums when the band was formed, took over until 1998, when he was replaced by Matt Cameron (formerly of Soundgarden). Since then, the band has remained a powerful force in rock music, despite tragedies like the Roskilde Festival disaster in 2000, in which nine fans were crushed to death at the final stop of their European tour.

Demonstrating their resilience, Pearl Jam released their current album, Dark Matter, to critical and fan acclaim. The title track and “Wreckage” both topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart, marking the first time in 25 years that Pearl Jam reached that position — a record for the chart.

Throughout their career, Pearl Jam has released 12 studio albums (and numerous live albums, including official bootlegs) that have sold over 90 million copies and earned 18 Grammy Award nominations, winning two. Ten remains their most successful album, selling 15 million copies to earn the Recording Industry Association of America’s Diamond Award.