The first complete biography of the legendary band is here! It is published by OXY Publications, in collaboration with Avopolis.gr and translated by Pano Tomara. Ronen Givony manages in the biography "The Pearl Jam in Present Tense" to highlight the obvious; Pearl Jam is part of our culture. Not only because their songs have become backgrounds for birthdays and weddings, nor only because they shaped much of the music, legend, and tradition of the 1990s.

Their public image, their unabashed optimism, their social conscience, their active participation, activism, and the ethics they helped create were all radical in the world of mainstream rock. After eleven albums, sales of 85 million records, and more than a thousand concerts in fifty different countries, consistency and integrity continue to remind us of what only music can temporarily offer us: a better world.

Not for You: The Pearl Jam in Present Tense is the first complete biography of the legendary American band. It's a detached study of their role in the history of music, but also of American culture as a whole, while diving into both the origins of the grunge music movement and the Seattle scene, ultimately covering the entire decade of the '90s.

Not for You: The Pearl Jam in Present Tense is not just another band biography, nor a typical retrospective of any artist; rather, it manages to compose a thorough study of their work, with a deeper understanding of the social context of the time, while also presenting an essay on adolescence, nostalgia, and coming of age; the ultimate tribute for all their fans.

About the author: Ronen Givony has also written 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (2018), which was also published by Bloomsbury. He is the founder of the Wordless Music Orchestra and the concert series of the same name (wordlessmusic.org), which was described by the New Yorker as the most inventive concert series in New York and by the Village Voice as "the best moderately pretentious concert series." He was born in Miami and has worked in concert organization in various venues and festivals in the United States and elsewhere.