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Neil Young’s deep dive into his archives will continue this August with the arrival of what’s considered one of the most mythic and desired items in his vault, his unreleased 1977 album Chrome Dreams. The long-bootlegged LP, featuring a dozen songs — many of them classics — that Young recorded …

Long before Live Nation, Clear Channel, Ticketmaster, Stubhub, service fees, gold-circle seats, and anything that even resembles the live music industry as we know it today, there was Ron Delsener. The 87-year-old concert promoter has been booking shows in New York City going all the way back to the summer …

Neil Young is returning to the road at the end of this month following a four-year hiatus from touring. But he’s not bringing along Crazy Horse, Promise of the Real, or most of his famous songs. He’s instead plotting out a solo acoustic show built around rarely played songs from …

Neil Young is kicking off a tour in July following a four-year hiatus from the road — but don’t expect a traditional set. In a live Zoom late Wednesday afternoon with paid Patron subscribers to the Neil Young Archives, he revealed that he’s been rehearsing a show centered largely around …

Neil Young paid tribute to fellow “Canadian legend” Gordon Lightfoot after the storied singer-songwriter died earlier this week at the age of 84. In a statement shared on his website, Young called Lightfoot a “great Canadian artist” and “a songwriter without parallel.” He continued, “His melodies and words were an …

Neil Young always knew Tonight’s the Night was intense. “If you’re gonna put a record on at 11:00 in the morning, don’t put on Tonight’s the Night,” he warned Cameron Crowe in 1975. “Put on the Doobie Brothers.” Young’s point was evident without even hearing the music. Just look at …

On April 14, years after first hinting they were coming, Neil Young is finally releasing two Seventies concert bootlegs. The first one, High Flyin’, is a series of recordings from his 1977 under-the-radar Santa Monica, California summer club tour with the Ducks, a supergroup of sorts featuring bassist Bob Mosley …

Neil Young made an appearance at the United For Old Growth march and rally Saturday in Victoria, British Columbia, where he played “Comes a Time” and “Heart of Gold” for the crowd. It was his first live appearance since Farm Aid in September 2019. The rally was aimed at protecting …

Thanks to contractual obligations, burnout, bandwagon-jumping, over-ambition, or all of the above, it can be surprisingly easy for some of the most talented artists ever to release truly dire work. In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, we dive into the first half of Andy Greene’s recent “50 …

Stephen Stills and David Crosby didn’t always see eye to eye throughout the long history of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. But they were on good terms during the final years of Crosby’s life and even had plans to see each other shortly before Crosby died. “When you’re young, if …