Pearl Jam album, film, tour in the works

NEW YORK - Pearl Jam is lining up U.S. concert dates for the second half of the year, including the Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival in San Francisco.

Along with Dave Matthews Band and the Beastie Boys, the group will headline the festival’s second edition, scheduled for August 28-30 at Golden Gate Park.

M.I.A., Modest Mouse, the Mars Volta, Black Eyed Peas, Ween, Thievery Corporation, Incubus and Jason Mraz also are in the lineup, which was announced Monday.

Pearl Jam also has completed 14 songs for a new album and is working on a film with director Cameron Crowe, guitarist Mike McCready said in a recent radio interview.

McCready told Seattle’s “Ron & Don Show” that the band is about halfway finished with its next album. McCready said the band expects to have the album out before the end of this year. Pearl Jam will self-release the album, its ninth.

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As for touring, the band is doing a “little thing in the States,” and aims to play South America in 2010, McCready said.

Pearl Jam is widely expected to be one of the headliners of this year’s Austin City Limits Music Festival in Austin, Texas. The event’s promoter, C3 Presents, declined to comment to Billboard about the lineup, but the Austin Chronicle is calling the band’s involvement “the worst-kept secret since Metallica’s SXSW (South by Southwest) showcase.”

Dave Matthews Band, Beastie Boys and Kings of Leon also are expected to be announced as headliners on April 28.

Pearl Jam has long been courted by C3 Presents for the Austin festival, especially after the promoter convinced the band to play Lollapalooza in 2007, its first large festival show in the U.S. since the mid-1990s. Pearl Jam played the Bonnaroo festival, in Tennessee, in 2008.

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