Neil Young has spent much of the pandemic focusing on an ambitious slate of archival releases, but he’s recently started work on a follow-up to his 2019 LP Colorado. “I have five songs ready for the next album,” he recently wrote to fans on the Neil Young Archives, “so I …
Read More »Neil Young Releases 1971 'Young Shakespeare' Live Album
Neil Young‘s January 22nd, 1971 concert at the Shakespeare Theater in Stratford, Connecticut, has been released as a live album and concert film. It’s a solo acoustic gig from the After the Gold Rush period, just three days after his famous show at Toronto’s Massey Hall. The Shakespeare Theater show …
Read More »Neil Young Drops Previously Unreleased 1972 Song 'Come Along and Say You Will'
Neil Young isn’t releasing his 10-disc collection Archives Volume 2: 1972-1976 until November 22nd, but paid subscribers of The Neil Young Archives website now have access to the previously unreleased song “Come Along and Say You Will.” The tune was recorded at Young’s Broken Arrow Ranch on December 15th, 1972 …
Read More »Neil Young Announces Live Album and Movie With Promise of the Real
Neil Young‘s 2019 European summer tour with Promise of the Real will be chronicled with a double album and concert film titled Noise and Flowers, which is slated for an early 2021 release. The nine-date tour kicked off June 29th in Odense, Denmark, just eight days after the death of …
Read More »Nils Lofgren Breaks Down New Neil Young and Crazy Horse LP 'Colorado'
Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s concert at Winnipeg’s Centennial Concert Hall on February 4th was only their seventh show since guitarist Nils Lofgren rejoined the band after a five-decade absence, but something about it felt different to everybody on the stage. “It was a really special night,” says Lofgren. “Afterwards …
Read More »Watch Exclusive Clip From New Neil Young and Crazy Horse Movie 'Mountaintop'
Earlier this year, Neil Young and Crazy Horse gathered at Studio in the Clouds near Telluride, Colorado, to record their first album since 2012’s Psychedelic Pill. The new lineup of the group had played a handful of theater shows since guitarist Frank “Poncho” Sampedro stepped aside and was replaced by …
Read More »Hear Neil Young and Crazy Horse's New Song 'Milky Way'
Neil Young and Crazy Horse have shared the first song from their upcoming album Colorado, a gentle love ballad (especially by Crazy Horse standards) titled “Milky Way.” Young has performed the song several times at concerts over the past few months – both solo acoustic and with Promise of the …
Read More »Elliot Roberts, Longtime Neil Young Manager, Dead at 76
Elliot Roberts, who managed the careers of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Tom Petty and many classic-rock legends, died Friday at the age of 76. A cause of death has not been revealed. “It is with a heavy heart that we can confirm the passing of Elliot Roberts. No further details …
Read More »Watch Blood Orange Cover Neil Young's 'Heart of Gold' at Coachella
Blood Orange‘s Devonté Hynes kicked off his Sunday set at Coachella 2019 with a cover of Neil Young‘s “Heart of Gold.” The singer crooned the song, a highlight from 1972’s Harvest, over jagged acoustic strums. He offered a touch of melisma to the folk-rock track, with two backing vocalists — …
Read More »Watch Neil Young Discuss Randy Bachman's Influence
Long before anybody had heard of Neil Young and Randy Bachman, they were two teenagers growing up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and trying their best to make their mark on the tiny local music scene. Bachman found success first when his group the Silvertones (who would eventually morph into the Guess …
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