The Rockfords

AFTER BEING OUT OF PRINT FOR AGES, THE LONE STUDIO ALBUM BY PEARL JAM SIXSTRINGER MIKE McCREADY’S Y2K POWERPOP SIDE PROJECT IS GETTING ITS FIRST DIGITAL RELEASE

- Richard Bienstock

IN ADDITION TO his rather well-known work with Pearl Jam, throughout the 1990s Mike McCready kept fairly busy, be it playing with the supergroup Temple of the Dog, co-founding the Layne Staley-fronted Mad Season or backing Neil Young, along with his PJ band mates, on the 1995 album Mirror Ball.

But perhaps only the most devoted of McCready fans will also recall that, as the Nineties gave way to the new millennium, the guitarist helped to create what stands as one of the era’s most pristine, and unheralded, power-pop documents — the self-titled record from his short-lived project, the Rockfords. Long out-of-print, the record is once again seeing the light of day with a first-time-ever digital release. “It’s a record I had kind of put away in my mind,” McCready tells