2011 will be a very special year for American rock band Pearl Jam as well as a busy one.

The Seattle grunge survivors will be celebrating their 20th anniversary this year, but they’ll be spending this time working instead of partying.

The schedule so far includes album reissues of the band’s Vs and Vitalogy albums, a Cameron Crowe-directed documentary of the band’s 1991 milestone debut Ten, a book, various side projects and the setting up of their own festival.

And if that wasn’t enough, the band will also be recording its 10th studio album this year.

News of the album surfaced in a comment to Billboard by bassist Jeff Ament.

“We did a whole bunch of demos and everybody’s got a disc of 25 songs right now,” he said, adding that the band will stepping into the studio in April to “get together and learn to play all the demos and figure out which 12 to15 of them float to the top”.

Ament said that the band was looking forward to the new album because there had been so much focus on the band’s past lately.

“We’ve been digging in the boxes in our basement a lot the last year or so…we have something to look forward to and we’re all really excited to make a new record.”

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