Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready releases 20-year rock opera title track

Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready has released “Farewell to Seasons,” the title track and first single from an 11-song rock opera and companion graphic novel due December 1 through Z2 Comics. Developed over roughly 20 years, the project draws on McCready’s experiences in Seattle’s music scene as grunge rose, portraying its creativity and community alongside the toll it took on musicians. The songs are presented from the perspective of fictional rocker David Williams, whom McCready also voices, and the single arrives with an animated video directed by Cyrus Entezam.