Best of 2021, Pearl Jam Online Staff Picks

Our staff members shared their lists of their favorite records, songs, movies and more from 2021.

LUCA VILLA

He created pearljamonline.it in 2001 and wrote the first edition of Pearl Jam Evolution in 2009 along with his wife Daria. He is collaborating with barracudastyle.com, hvsr.net and rockol.it, he has collaborated with Rolling Stone and Il Fatto Quotidiano. He continues relentlessly to try to find “beautiful melodies that say terrible things”.

Favorite 2021 Albums

IDLES – Crawler
Black Country New Road – For The First Time
Squid – Bright Green Field
Shame – Drunk Tank Pink
Flag Day Soundtrack
Geese – Projector
Sleaford Mods – Spare Ribs
Brandi Carlile – In These Silent Days
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Carnage
Royal Blood – Typhoons

Favorite 2021 Songs

IDLES – MTT 420 RR
Black Country, New Road – Instrumental
Eddie & Olivia Vedder – There’s A Girl
Ament – Sweet Boy
Royal Blood – Boilermaker

Favorite 2021 Movie

Dune by Denis Villeneuve

Favorite 2021 TV Series

Squid Game

Favorite 2021 Book

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Novel by Quentin Tarantino

Favorite 2021 Concert

Fontaines D.C. – Teatro Regio, Parma, Barezzi Festival, 11/6/2021

Best Moment in 2021

Can I get a hallelujah?

DARIA MORETTI

She joined the pearljamonline.it team in 2007, in particular taking care of the English version and the texts and translations section. Co-author of Pearl Jam Evolution, always looking for news and curiosities about the band.

Favorite 2021 Albums

Flag Day Soundtrack
IDLES – Crawler
Ament – I Should Be Outside

Favorite 2021 Songs

Olivia Vedder – My Father’s Daughter
IDLES – MTT 420 RR
Shame – Alphabet

Favorite 2021 Movie

E’ stata la mano di Dio by Paolo Sorrentino

Favorite 2021 TV Series

Maid

Favorite 2021 Concert

Fontaines D.C. – Teatro Regio, Parma, Barezzi Festival, 11/6/2021

Best Moment in 2021

When it’s over

SERENA MARSILI

She began to collaborate with pearljamonline.it in December 2017 managing to combine her two greatest passions: the English language and Pearl Jam.

Favorite 2021 Album

IDLES – Crawler

Favorite 2021 Song

IDLES – MTT 420 RR

Favorite 2021 Movie

The French Dispatch by Wes Anderson

Favorite 2021 TV Series

Sweet Tooth

Favorite 2021 Concert

Nothin’ 😢

Best Moment in 2021

THE END.

LAURA FACCENDA

After graduating in Faculty of Literature, she pursued studies in the aim of communication and journalism. Following her two biggest passions, music and writing, she attended a Music Journalism Workshop hosted by a famous musical magazine and she also attended a Marketing, Management and Communication Course in Milan. She worked for several online magazines and press offices. At the moment she writes on Onstage and MusicAttitude, in addition to work as a blogger, content creator and copywriter.

Favorite 2021 Albums

Noah Gundersen – A Pillar Of Salt
Manchester Orchestra – Million Masks of God
Architects – For Those That Wish to Exist
Julien Baker – Little Oblivions
The Weather Station – Ignorance

Favorite 2021 Songs

Sam Fender – Seventeen Going Under
Foy Vance – Sapling
Manchester Orchestra – Telepath
Silk Sonic – Put On A Smile
The War On Drugs (feat. Lucius) – I Don’t Live Here Anymore

Favorite 2021 Movie

Oasis Knebworth 1996 by Jake Scott

Favorite 2021 TV Series

Maid

Favorite 2021 Book

Renegades: Born In The USA by Bruce Springsteen, Barack Obama

Favorite 2021 Concert

John Qualcosa – 8/7/2021 @Rocka Music Fest

Best Moment in 2021

Rocka Music Fest in Gradara