The third volume of Neil Young’s ongoing Archives box set series chronicles 1976 to 1987. In that time frame, most artists might release three or four records, one possibly being a Greatest Hits comp. But not Young. After all, this is the guy who wrote “Cinnamon Girl,” “Cowgirl in the …
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Neil Young, Stephen Stills, and John Mayer are coming together Oct. 5 in Lakes Hughes, California, to headline Harvest Moon, a charity concert benefiting the Painted Turtle Camp and the Bridge School. General admission tickets go on sale Sept. 6 for $275. (VIP packages are also available, with more info …
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Three months ago, Neil Young and Crazy Horse pulled the plug on their Love Earth summer tour with little explanation besides “a couple of us got sick.” In a new Zoom Q&A with paid subscribers of the Neil Young Archives, Young gave fans a much fuller account of what went …
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Days away from the release of Archives Vol. III, Neil Young has shared an unreleased live version of “Thrasher,” exclusively with Rolling Stone. The track was cut during the first of two shows at the Boarding House in San Francisco on May 27, 1978; Young performed 10 shows across five …
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Vice presidential nominee Tim Walz concluded his DNC speech Wednesday by walking off the stage to Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World.” Despite the track’s litigious history on the campaign trail, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reported that Walz sought Young’s approval to use “Rockin’ in the Free World” — one …
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Good news for Rusties: Neil Young has officially announced the next installment of his Archives series. Vol. III (1976-1987) arrives on Sept. 6 via Reprise Records. The massive anthology spans 11 years and picks up where 2020’s Archives II ended in 1976. This immensely productive period resulted in beloved albums …
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A month after cancelling all concert dates due to an unspecific illness, Neil Young will be returning to the concert stage as part of Farm Aid at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, New York, on Sept. 21. He’ll be joined by his fellow Farm Aid board members …
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Happy 50th anniversary to Neil Young’s On the Beach, an album that, to put it mildly, is not a very sunny one. Young himself called it one of the most depressing records he’s ever made — and that was after he wrote and recorded the famously funereal Tonight’s the Night. …
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Before Micah Nelson, before Nils Lofgren, and before Frank “Poncho” Sampedro, there was Danny Whitten. The original Crazy Horse guitarist died over 50 years ago, but the mark he made on Neil Young and the band persists to this day. Just watch this clip from the recent, now-suspended tour, where …
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Neil Young and Crazy Horse have suspended their Love Earth Tour, which was slated to resume July 8 in Toronto, and keep them on the road through the end of September. “When a couple of us got sick after Detroit’s Pine Knob, we all had to stop,” they wrote in …
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