"The most popular American rock and roll band of the '90s," Pearl Jam is on their 23rd tour in their music career in 2025. Their Dark Matter World Tour is to promote their 2024 studio album, Dark Matter. The tour started last year on May 4, 2024, and continues to this date. It is set to end this year on May 18, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The latest show Pearl Jam played was at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood. The show lasted for two days: April 24 and 26, 2025. Before this, the last show the rock band played was last year, on November 23, in Sydney, Australia. The Dark Matter World Tour is back on track this year with its US leg.
The band's gig on April 24, 2025, included a set list of 25 songs in total. These tracks include songs from their latest album, Dark Matter. It also included tracks from their previous albums and a few covers. Keep reading to learn which songs Pearl Jam played in Hollywood last Thursday.
Pearl Jam's complete set list for their US leg of their Dark Matter World Tour
Pearl Jam recently resumed their ongoing tour after their last show in Australia in November 2024. The band came back strong with a list of 25 songs for their US fans on April 24, 2025. Here is the complete list of songs they played in Hollywood that night:
- Oceans
- Present Tense
- Why Go
- Deep
- Amongst the Waves
- React, Respond
- Dark Matter
- Wreckage
- Even Flow
- Down
- Corduroy
- Won’t Tell
- Leatherman
- Wishlist
- Running
- Lukin
- Porch
Dead Pioneers band was Pearl Jam's opening act on April 24. The show started with Oceans, a song that was released in 1992. It is the seventh track from their first debut studio album called Ten. Some of the songs they played from their latest studio album include Dark Matter, Wreckage, Running, and React, Respond.
As for Encore, the band played a few covers, which included an acoustic solo cover by Eddie Vedder on Tom Petty's cover of I Won't Back Down. They also included a Victoria Williams cover of Crazy Mary and a The Who cover of Baba O'Riley. This is the full Encore set list:
- I Won’t Back Down (Tom Petty cover) (Eddie Vedder solo, acoustic)
- Footsteps
- Do the Evolution
- So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star (The Byrds cover) (first time since 2010)
- Crazy Mary (Victoria Williams cover)
- Alive
- Baba O’Riley (The Who cover)
- Setting Sun
Pearl Jam's Dark Matter World Tour is coming close to an end, with nine more shows left to complete their US leg of the tour. After playing their first two shows in Hollywood, the band will be touring five more cities before wrapping it up. These shows will be performed in Atlanta, New Orleans, Nashville, Raleigh, and Pittsburgh.