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Most warm-up gigs tend to be disappointingly sucktastic, but that wasn’t the case with Pearl Jam’s epic performance at the Vic Theater in Chicago on August 2nd. Pearl Jam played a tight set that was chock full of rarities and obscure covers for the crowd of 1,300. Tickets were only available through Pearl Jam’s fan club, leading the ticketless to offer upwards of $5,000 to get into the intimate gig.

Our good friend Sharptoe was one of the lucky fan club members to receive tickets, and he has kindly shared some of his photos from the show with us — a full setlist and a link to downloads the live show follow this little picture book…

Above: Pearl Jam rockin’ out one of many rarities it played; Below: The line of lucky golden ticket holders stretched for blocks…

Read on after the jump for more Pearl Jam photos from The Vic…

Here’s a fun and lively acoustic mix for the dog days of summer… Let’s go through the tracks: Dance Dance Dance is the set closer from Neil Young’s Live at

Apple is getting in on the social music scene started by Last.fm, MOG and iLike with the launch of MyiTunes. The new service is a series of three embeddable widgets that can help you tell the world what is in your iTunes collection. But there’s more: Tech Crunch does a nice job of examining why Apple started MyiTunes, and like Brown, what the new widgets can do for you.

• It turns out Pearl Jam wasn’t the first artist to be censored by AT&T
• Modest Mouse and Kraftwerk have been added to the Vegoose lineup
• Dweezil Zappa talks about the first-ever Frank Zappa Day in Baltimore
• The Decibel Blog digs up Anthrax’s appearance on Married With Children
• Gathering of the Vibes featured both good music and good weather
• Spinner lists 20 Bitter Band Breakups
• Remember this name: FLORATONE
• Cheap Trick and some of their friends paid tribute to Sgt. Pepper’s at the Hollywood Bowl this weekend
• Ickmusic examines The Faces covering Love In Vain
• IFC has acquired the distribution rights to Julien Temple’s documentary on Joe Strummer
• Everyone is calling Daft Punk the show of the summer
• The Hits Just Keep On Coming assembled a blogswarm to celebrate Vinyl Record Day
• Fareed Haque is giving virtual guitar lessons through his web site
• After reading David Fricke’s articles for years, it’s kinda nice to find out about the guy behind the glasses
• Neddy lists the shows shows of the week in New York City

And as always on Mondays, read on after the jump for a full roster of setlists from the weekend, including The Black Crowes, Bob Dylan, Gillian Welch, Ween, Rush, Ozzy, Peter Gabriel and the String Cheese Incident’s final notes…

The Untz Untz Community will descend upon the Indian Lookout Country Club on Thursday for Camp Bisco VI. The Disco Biscuits headline all three nights of the now-three night festival at the ILCC, which is about 25 minutes from Albany.

As usual, the Biscuits have put together an eclectic lineup that should appeal to all of the various contingencies within the Bisco community. The Breakfast, Umphrey’s McGee and Zeppelin tribute Bustle In Your Hedgerow should satiate all of the rock fans in the audience. Hip-hop is well represented by Lyrics Born and Slick Rick, among some others, and there’s no lack of livetronica bands thanks to the likes of STS9, The Join and Future Rock.

Girl Talk’s Gregg Gillis, a man who cuts through all of those genres, will be making his first appearance at Camp Bisco. Recently, we talked to Gregg about performing at Camp Bisco and what the future holds for Girl Talk:

Scott Bernstein: How familiar are you with Camp Bisco, and the music of the Disco Biscuits in general?

Gregg Gillis: I’m not too familiar with the whole world of Camp Bisco. People tell me I’m going to have an enlightening experience though.

Read on after the jump for much more of Scott’s interview with Gillis, including fights with 30-person G-Unit entourages, opening for Widespread Panic, and whether or not his new project, Trey Told ‘Em, is about a certain redhead…

Soccer’s a lot like jazz, or yazz, and to some extent, the popular rock band Phish — it’s free-form, flowing with an emphasis on space; the players feed off the

There’s a solid handful of amazing music-related shows on the ol’ telly this weekend, so check them out or set your DVR to do your dirty work: Friday [all times