On Saturday April 28, Jim made a special appearance at North Central Market in Phoenix to help raise money for Elizabeth Blair, where he sang a Taylor Swift song with her.  You can read more about Elizabeth below the video.

Elizabeth Blair was diagnosed with Stage IV Non-Hodgkins Lymphoblastic Lymphoma. She is fighting for her life against this terrible disease. Locals and her family from Phoenix, AZ got together and set up a foundation and fundraiser for her. The local rock star Jim Adkins, (lead-singer of Jimmy Eat World) offered to play and sing a song with Elizabeth at this fundraiser. This is a video of them singing Elizabeth’s favorite song “Love Story” by Taylor Swift. If you would like to learn more or help Elizabeth out please go to: http://gotebb.com/ebb-foundation/

A new documentary, Bigger Than Sound premiered Tuesday night.

A 30-minute jaunt about Charlie Levy, founder of Phoenix-based promotion company Stateside Presents.Frost and her cohorts interviewed renowned local musicians Nate Ruess and Sam Means formerly of The Format, Miniature Tigers, and Jimmy Eat World’s Jim Adkins to help chronicle Levy’s rise from concert director at ASU to head honcho of everyone’s favorite haunt, the Crescent Ballroom.

“There are good people and there are bad people,” Adkins says. “Charlie’s one of the good people.”

You can read more from Jim and about Bigger Than Sound here.

For this year’s Record Store Day Jim will hitting several record shops in the Phoenix  area including Stinkweeds,Revolver, and Zia Records. More news to come soon! He will be sitting in and playing guitar with The Love Me Nots.

Here are some pictures from the various performances:

Jim is up against The Summer Set in this week’s edition of “Under the Covers” for their covers of Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.” You may view the two covers below and tell Alternative Press what you think here.