By Donna Ferguson

In March 1964, the rock journalist Al Aronowitz awoke to find Bob Dylan asleep on his sofa and the lyrics to Mr Tambourine Man crumpled up in his rubbish bin.

The 22-year-old Dylan had spent the night writing and rewriting his new song on a portable typewriter at Aronowitz’s home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, before chucking away the early drafts and stretching out on his friend’s couch.

Now, Dylan’s stained, crumpled …

By Matt Thorne

In 1965, Bob Dylan was the most fashionable musician in the world. Over the past 60 years, his critical and commercial appeal has fluctuated, but in the 21st century his acclaim has steadily increased in an unusual way for an ageing musician, capped with winning the 2016 Nobel prize in literature.

More surprisingly, he’s become hip again, not just with long-term followers but with younger listeners, many adding his music to their …

About 40 years back, making music on Geffen Records, I got sued by that company. The reason I was sued was because i was making records that were different from what they wanted. ‘Unrepresentative and uncharacteristic’ was the phrase they used in the suit. I wished I was still on Reprise.

I had just made ‘TRANS’- original vocoder driven songs, inspired by my son Ben and those like him who were non-verbal, in September and …

faroutmagazine

Trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack have revealed that they rejected an offer to play Coachella 2025 on environmental grounds.⁠

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The band, comprised of Robert ‘3D’ Del Naja and Grant ‘Daddy G’ Marshall, are one of the most prominent adherents of the environmentalist cause in music. In 2021, they published the report they had commissioned from the renowned Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research two years prior, mapping the carbon footprint of touring and the …

Neil Young: Neil Young Archives Vol. III (1976-1987)

For Neil Young’s third collection of Archives, a press release states: “With over 28 hours of total content, you could drive from New York to Denver, listening the entire time, and still have hours left to enjoy when you arrive!” This behemoth collection contains 198 tracks recorded between 1976 and 1987. The new set includes 15 previously unreleased songs, 121 unreleased versions, and unreleased albums: Oceanside …

Peace Trail - Neil Young

released 12-9-16

Peace Trail was recorded in 2016 in the days leading up to the election of president Trump. Jim Keltner drums and Paul Bushnell, bass, were with me on this record which was finished right around election day. Slammed by critics for not being up to their exacting musical standards, Peace Trail is one of my favorites of the last decade and was beyond their grasp. Not every recording …

Neil Young Archives Volume III - "Takes"

Track List:

Hey Babe
Drive Back
Hitchhiker
Let It Shine
Sail Away
Comes a Time
Lady Wingshot
Thrasher
Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
Bright Sunny Day
Winter Winds
If You Got Love
Razor Love
This Old House
Barstool Blues
Last Of His Kind

Musicians:
Neil Young: guitars, harmonica, LinnDrum, Simmons drums, Synclavier (bass, percussion & keys), vocal
Frank "Poncho" Sampedro: guitar, vocal
Billy Talbot: bass, …

Dreamin' Man Live '92 - Neil Young

released 8 Dec 2009

Neil Young: vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano, banjo

Recorded At:
Civic Auditorium, Portland, OR;
Fox Theatre, Detroit;
Greek Theater, Los Angeles;
Chicago Theater;
Orpheum Theatre, Minneapolis

Harvest Moon - Neil Young

released 11-2-1992

Harvest Moon is one of my albums I made with Kenny Buttrey on drums. All of these albums, starting with Harvest, have Kenny’s unmistakable feel - one of the great drummers of all time.

The music, a collection of songs from the time, is fulfilling for me to hear now. War of Man is a song that I love to hear Tim Drummond’s bass on. This is mind …

Weld - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

released 10-23-1991

After we played the Catalyst in 1991, recording and filming LA Johnson’s ‘Way Down in the Rust Bucket,’ we hit the road and did the tour that gave us ‘Weld’.

Originally a live LP of the performances and a film that featured a lot of audience, Weld was seen as a follow up to Rust Never Sleeps - a hard act to follow.

Our film has …

Ragged Glory - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

released 9-9-1990

TOM PETTY

“That’s Tom’s gate.’ I’ve said that many times driving past his house. Now that Tom is gone, I feel him even more. Tom is a great artist. Not he was. His art is.

I met Tom a few times when he played the Bridge School Benefit. He sure left a mark on me. A mark that goes deeper with age. I wish I had gotten to know him better. His life was a …

Freedom - Neil Young

released 10-2-1989

Recorded on Broken Arrow Ranch’s Plywood Analog, and at Times Square Studio in NYC, Freedom was produced by ‘The Volume Dealers.’ Niko Bolas and myself. We had a blast. I still remember mixing with Niko on the green board. . . . . Rockin’ in the Free World!
Love this one!
ny

This Note's For You - Neil Young & the Bluenotes

released 4-12-1988

This album was made with the Bluenotes, Volume Dealers (Niko Bolas and Neil Young) producing. The title track got MTV ‘Video of the Year’ award, while not being played because it was banned on MTV for making fun of MTV artist sponsors and network sponsors; A novel situation.

The award was presented to me by Miss Daryl Hannah, who was later to be …

Landing On Water - Neil Young

released 7-21-1986

Landing on Water, a greatly missed album, has its own sound and the songs on it are reflective of that period in my life. Videos from the album by Tim Pope are among my most favorite. Please check them out. They are found on the infocards for each song. Not all songs have the videos though. Danny Kortchmr produced with me and Niko Bolas engineered. This was …

WHEN I HOLD YOU IN MY ARMS

Recently discovered in an unreleased concert film from Erfurt Germany with Crazy Horse, this song has become one of my all time favorites of songs I have written. Now that I have my wife Daryl, the song has come true.
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This club in Cotati California was visited by Crazy Horse in 1975. Our first performance of ‘My Country Home’ was probably that night. Take a listen to this *original of a song that showed up on Ragged Glory,15 years later, in 1990. In ways this is a superior performance to the Ragged Glory version. Now we always are recording whenever we play 'cause we don’t want to miss originals.
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*first known recording

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By Art Thompson, Contributions from Rod Brakes, guitarplayer.com

A brief history of the timeless partnership between Neil and Nils

(Image credit: Thierry Orban / Sygma via Getty Images)

“I walked in on Neil and Crazy Horse at the Cellar Door in Washington, D.C., on their first tour,” Nils Lofgren told Guitar Player, casting his mind back to May 1969.

“Over two nights, I watched four shows and spent the afternoons at the hotel talking with …

This often-bootlegged set from the summer of 1977 by the Northern California quartet that featured Neil Young gets a well-deserved official release.

By John Curley, goldminemag.com

THE DUCKS
HIGH FLYIN’
Reprise (2-CD, 3-LP)
★★★★★

Available in bootleg form for many years, these live recordings of The Ducks now can be purchased as an official release. Recorded during the summer of 1977 in Northern California at several clubs and at Magical Devices studio, these 25 live …

by Arun Starkey, faroutmagazine.co.uk

★★★★★

Despite the emotional morass that Neil Young and Crazy Horse found themselves in during the recording process, 1975’s Zuma is an undisputed triumph. The album is one of the finest bodies of work in the Canadian musician’s extensive back catalogue. 36 minutes of total musical verve, there’s no identifiable downside, with the emotional sentiment palpable. Zuma leaves a more profound mark on the listener.

Young has never been the most …

From The Millstone

You can find a lot of great bargains at the Hub & Rebound stores at the corner of Mill and Bridge Streets — gently used clothes, home furnishings, toys, games and more.

And sometimes, just maybe, you can find music gold. Recently a customer was flipping through old 45 rpm records at Rebound and came across what turned out to be an extremely rare item featuring Canada’s Neil Young. He was able …

A playlist curated by Spotify providing a mix of fashwave songs recommended by the platform.

Intro

The ADL Center on Extremism (COE) has identified 40 white supremacist artists with a presence on Spotify, the world’s largest music streaming platform. Music has long been an effective way to radicalize extremists, allowing artists to both entertain and indoctrinate vulnerable listeners. At a time of increasing hate-motivated extremist violence, Spotify is not only allowing the racism and incitement …

from The New York Times

The former syndication star and top-flight interviewer is rebuilding his daily show on Amazon’s new app, Amp.

With his Amazon radio show, Zach Sang is figuring out a new path for an old format. “I want them to understand that there’s a better version of radio out there,” he said of the listeners he’s seeking to reach. Credit: Maggie Shannon for The New York Times

By Jon Caramanica

LOS ANGELES …

There is some good news. A fuel that offers a solution to those searching for cleaner driving is available. It’s called R99. The fuel reduces by 70% to 80% the emissions used in a musical tour that absolutely cause Climate Catastrophe.

Renewable Diesel is more expensive but as we know, so are tickets to see many artists, so they can use that money to try to save the planet as they tour the world. The …

Almost got an old Chevrolet. I wanted it so bad. It gave me a feeling I hadn’t had in years. Then I started imagining myself driving down an old highway. I thought about the fuel, the pollution, the world. The damage I would do. I started seeing a diesel engine in it with the new renewable diesel that is not a fossil fuel and doesn’t cause this climate chaos we are living in. I’m still …

Life - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

released 6-30-1987

Here is an album for Geffen records, from the most combative period of my musical life, working with an aggressively controlling and non supportive of the art company. A commerce based company. I couldn’t wait to get back to Reprise. Leaving Reprise was a huge error, and will be in my ‘biggest mistakes’ Hall of Fame. I’d rather forget about the whole thing. 'Prisoner’s of Rock …

Monday, November 10 low fog. I sit in a coffee shop drinking an espresso and looking over my work schedule. 67 hours I've been assigned this week, just writing it requires a sigh of exhaustion. A library copy of Desolation Angels lies face down and opened to the second half. I sit at my small round table and observe the man at the next.

He's sitting directly in front of me, he reads a copy …

I guess if you really wanted to tell the story right, you would have to start with his eyes. He has those wolf blue eyes, both his parents had them. That pale blue that reminds me of pictures of glaciers I'd seen in National Geographic as a kid. Surrounding those perfect circles of ice are fault lines, some would call them smile lines of crows feet but for me I think of I think of …

"We both heard a mistake somewhere in the end of the song. We listened again. Couldn’t find it. We searched a bit, then moved on. We’ll find it. ……Then, next day we had a playback with people there. We heard it again. It’s in the third verse. Later in the studio we located it and there didn’t seem to be a problem. It sounded fine. That happened a lot with this record. Ghosts are in …

Deep in the Santa Cruz mountains surrounded by redwoods and bright green forest ferns lived an old man who I called the Captain. He was a short little guy with silver hair Framing a Sand dollar sized bald spot. The captain had pale blue eyes that looked up at you like a very old confused basset hound. He had long filed finger nails and wine stained teeth. He spoke in two different voices. One in …

Photo by Daniel Root

From EVGrieve.com

Today, Neil Young delivers Official Release Series #4 as a box set.

And there's an East Village connection to four-LP and CD collections of Young's music from the 1980s.

Gracing the cover is a photo of Young that East Village-based photographer Daniel Root shot in 1988 at the long-gone venue The World on Avenue C and Second Street.

How did this selection happen?

"Neil picked it from their files," …

Credit: Hiroyuki Ito for The New York Times

By Javier C. Hernández, The New York Times

The uproar surrounding Valery Gergiev is a significant blow to a conductor who has built a busy international career while maintaining deep ties to the Russian state.

A day after he was dropped from concerts at Carnegie Hall, the star Russian maestro Valery Gergiev on Friday faced rising anger over his record of support for President Vladimir V. Putin …

Singer and actor Meat Loaf, whose “Bat Out of Hell” album sold tens of millions of copies. (Ted Aljibe/ AFP/ Getty Images)

By Matt Schudel, The Washington Post

Meat Loaf, a singer whose soaring, near-operatic rock anthems made him one of the most unexpected pop stars of the 1970s and 1980s, and whose many acting roles included an integral part in the cult movie classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” died Jan. 20 at age …

Since I was a kid, I have felt an affinity for the first Nations people. Growing up in Winnipeg Manitoba, where there was a fairly large community of disenfranchised homeless and jobless First Nations people, I noticed that they were mistreated and not respected by some of the Winnipegers. Walking past the famous Portage and Main intersection and then along Main street, I could see many people living there, gathered in that area, disenfranchised. Back …

Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence in Don't Look Up (Niko Tavernise/ Netflix—© 2021 Netflix, Inc

By Justin Worland

If you follow the public conversation around climate change, you have probably heard about Don’t Look Up. The Netflix disaster movie, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as ignored scientists Randall Mindy and Kate Dibiasky, uses an impending comet strike as a cautionary tale for climate change. When the scientists deliver news of the potentially civilization-ending …