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‘Pants On The Ground’ Rocks The Free World
6:26 PM on Thu Jan 14 2010 by Idolator Staff
Ok, just one more. We know, we know, we OD'd on remixes already. But really, can you blame us for posting the day's most stirring cover of General Larry Platt's call to action? Of course not. Especially since it was performed by counter-cultural (Canadian) idol Neil Young... er, yeah. Call yourself a cool cat and check below for the clearest sign yet that American Idol Season 9 is going to heal the world.
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Farm Aid Returns To The Heartland
11:00 AM on Thu Jul 16 2009 by Maura
This year’s installment of Farm Aid, the annual concert benefiting family farmers that was initially organized by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, and Neil Young in 1985, will take place at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater outside of St. Louis on Oct. 4. Nelson, Mellencamp, and Young are all on the initial bill alongside the Dave Matthews Band; the four aforementioned men are all on the event’s board of directors. More »
Glastonbury Festival Latest Event To Realize That Pandering To The Olds Is The Best Business Strategy Out There
1:30 AM on Mon Dec 22 2008 by Maura
Apparently reeling from lousy ticket sales for… More »
Neil Young Inadvertently Kickstarts “Licensing Your Name To Arachnids” Trend
9:00 AM on Mon May 12 2008 by Maura
Neil Young’s licensing agreements may extend to items like rolling papers and belt buckles, but the latest item to bear his name isn’t for sale through his official Web site yet: It’s a new species of trapdoor spider, the Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi. East Carolina University biologist Jason Bond, who discovered and named the new species, is clearly a guitar aficionado, although it wasn’t just Young’s axework that inspired the nomenclature.
Neil Young’s <em>Archives</em> Team Finally Gets To The Weird Stuff
12:15 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008 by anthonyjmiccio
Live albums from the halcyon days of Danny Whitten are great and all, but its a look at those aborted studio sessions that Neil heads like myself have been waiting for. So while, as with most of Neil’s Archives projects, there’s no release date and no real promise that we’ll see one, it’s great that his people are even bothering to mention the possibility of hearing Toast, an album of outtakes from a “depressing” 2000 session with Crazy Horse in a run down San Francisco studio of the same name.
4:05 AM on Fri Feb 8 2008 by Jess Harvell
“Canadian folk rock legend Neil Young said he has lost all hope that music can change the world.” Perhaps this means “Canadian incredibly-loud-guitar rock legend Neil Young” will get back to his “Down By The River” steez, even though he is quite aged. More »
Fact: MTV Once Played So Many Music Videos They Could Afford To Ban Some
4:00 AM on Tue Jul 10 2007 by pcox
MTV has a history of banning would-be popular videos, but it was 19 years ago this week that one of the network’s most peculiar censorship decisions took place. Neil Young’s “This Note’s for You” was denied play on the network due to a fear of offending valuable advertisers. More »
Neil Young Gives Axl Rose A Run For His Money
9:10 AM on Tue Jun 26 2007 by Brian Raftery
Yesterday, Billboard announced that Neil Young’s multi-disc Archives box set–which was supposed to finally come out later this year–has been moved to 2008. More »
Neil Young Re-Thinks His Canadian Citizenship
6:00 AM on Thu Apr 12 2007 by Brian Raftery
Universal has just announced a new Neil Young tribute CD, to be titled Borrowed Tunes II. And just who is paying tribute, you ask?
Collaborating artists include Barenaked Ladies, Emily Haines, Finger Eleven, Chantal Kreviazuk, Dallas Green, Hawksley Workman, Raine Maida of Our Lady Peace, Ron Sexsmith, Goldendogs, Quebec-based Dobacaracol, Jorane and many others.
We’ll take Haines and Sexsmith, but the rest of the line-up is less appealing than an a cappella version of Landing On Water. So is this is the worst tribute album of all time? Not even close.
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The Vault: Neil Young’s “Beach” Party
9:46 AM on Tue Jan 30 2007 by Brian Raftery
We can only guess what material will be included when Neil Young finally releases his long-promised Archives box set this year–we still think it may be a big joke, and Neil’s just going to put out eight discs of Landing On Water outtakes–but we’re hoping this 1974 live set will make the final cut. More »
