We all by know by the horrible earthquake that essentially leveled Haiti. But, within the devastation comes the outpouring of support from the music community.

There was of course the Hope for Haiti telethon, and a ton of acts, like Radiohead, that have put on special benefit gigs.

Well, here’s one that I wouldn’t have missed. It’s Eddie Vedder covering Bruce Springsteen’s “My City of Ruins”. Sales from the single will be benefiting Artists for Peace and Justice Haiti Relief.

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During the 90’s it was routine for Pearl Jam to release a new album pretty much every other year. Now they’re going several years between albums. There was a four year gap between Riot Act in 2002 and 2006’s self-titled release and a three year period building up to Backspacer.

But it’s finally here, after months of promotion and teasing us.

There was the debut of “Got Some” on Conan’s inaugural Late Show on June 1. Then there was the storm surrounding the news that the now label-free band would exclusively release Backspacer via Target.

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We should all know that 9/9/09 means one thing…the release of The Beatles: Rock Band and the remastered release of their catalog!

Now that we all get to do our own “covers” of Beatles classics, I thought we would look back at some of the other acts that have covered the Fab Four over the years.

Now there have been A TON of Beatles covers, after all, it’s only a prerequisite to cover them if you’re in a band. There’s covers from legends (Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, and Johnny Cash) to “glam” rock (Bowie, Motley Crue) to jam bands (DMB, Phish, Black Crowes) to comedic renditions (Jim Carey, Tenacious D) to sampling (The Roots, Danger Mouse’s Jay-Z/Beatles mash up The Grey Album).

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Dave Grohl, Eddie Vedder, Jack Johnson and Norah Jones are confirmed to appear on an upcoming tribute album for Nick Drake sometime this year.

The compilation will be released via Jack Johnson’s Brushfire label and will be accompanied by a DVD. The DVD will contain footage of the making of the album, as well as, an unreleased video of Drake’s tune “Black Eyed Dog” by the late Heath Ledger.

Now, you may thinking this sounds interesting and all, but who the hell is Nick Drake?

Well, it’s the tenth of the month, which means some sort of Pearl Jam post.

The band has been quiet since they wrapped up their short tour this past summer, but the members have been keeping busy.

OK, here way go…

- Eddie did another solo tour, wrote a song called “Someday We’ll Go All The Way” for the Cubs (who are out of the playoffs now and apparently some folks are blaming Eddie for this lose).

- Mike’s been doing some work with the CCFA and is going to be a part of this Hendrix tour.

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