On Thanksgiving 2023, Canadian-American singer-songwriter Neil Young released a roughly three-minute video of himself performing a Jimi Hendrix-ian version of the “The Star-Spangled Banner” on electric guitar. The video ends with a simple message written across the screen: “BE BRAVE” and “STAND FOR PEACE.” The video makes no direct reference …
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Nearly two years years after pulling his music from Spotify due to COVID vaccine misinformation on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Neil Young has decided to stop using X (formerly known as Twitter) because of Elon Musk’s recent antisemitic statements. “We are stopping all use of X that we can control,” Young …
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According to multiple fan reports, Neil Young and Crazy Horse played their 1990 LP Ragged Glory straight through at a private birthday party for Canada Goose CEO Dani Reiss. The show took place November 4 at The Rivoli in Toronto, which seats a mere 200 people. (We reached out to …
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Like its two recent multi-disc predecessors,JoniMitchell Archives — Volume 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975)collects live and studio vault tapes from a particular era in Mitchell’s career. This one gets off to a seemingly unbeatable start. Much of its first quarter is devoted to an entire live show from Carnegie Hall …
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Around 10:20 p.m. on Saturday night, a shadowy group of figures walked onto the Farm Aid stage at the Ruoff Music Center in Noblesville, Indiana. This was supposed to be the moment where Wille Nelson wrapped up the night, but there was no sign of the Red Headed Stranger or …
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Fifty years to the day after Neil Young and the Santa Monica Flyers performed at the opening of the Roxy in Los Angeles — a night that looms large in rock & roll lore thanks to decades of bootlegs — the curtain rose at the L.A. club to reveal Young …
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The idea for Jason Thomas Gordon’s new book, “The Singers Talk” — which features new interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Roger Daltrey, Chrissie Hynde, Willie Nelson, Mavis Staples, Ozzy Osbourne, Robert Smith, Geddy Lee, Michael Stipe, Thom Yorke, Rod Stewart, Steve Perry, and many other superstar vocalists — came to him …
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Sixteen years ago, in 2007, Neil Young puzzled quite a few people when he released a new album called Chrome Dreams II. Only his most devoted followers knew that the title was a reference to Chrome Dreams, an entirely different album he had put together in 1977 before shelving it …
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In the early months of the pandemic, Nils Lofgren didn’t know what to do with himself. The guitarist had been on the road since the Sixties, when his band Grin took off, and in the years that followed he’d launched many solo tours between stints with Bruce Springsteen in the …
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Farm Aid is coming to the Ruoff Music Center in Noblesville, Indiana, on September 23 with a bill that includes board members Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, and Margo Price alongside Bob Weir & Wolf Bros featuring The Wolfpack, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Lukas Nelson, …
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