Do you prefer your music playlists with a side of vaccine misinformation? Then late night host Stephen Colbert has a solution for you in light of Spotify’s new content warnings. The Late Show aired an imagined Spotify ad touting a playlist containing “all your favorite songs strategically assembled in an …
Read More »Joe Rogan Claims He's 'Not Trying to Promote Misinformation'
Joe Rogan offered up a response to the ongoing controversy surrounding his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, and its role in spreading Covid-19 misinformation after artists like Neil Young and Joni Mitchell took their music off Spotify in protest. In a video shared on Instagram, Rogan attempted to cover himself …
Read More »Jeff Tweedy Previews 'Love Is the King' Deluxe LP With Neil Young Cover
Jeff Tweedy‘s recent solo album gets a deluxe edition with Love Is the King/Live Is the King, which features a bonus disc housing live versions of all 11 original songs from Love Is the King. The expanded package arrives digitally and on CD via dBpm Records on December 10th, and …
Read More »Neil Young Honors Producer Elliot Mazer: 'A Master in the Studio'
Following the death of Elliot Mazer on Sunday, Neil Young took to his website to honor the engineer-producer behind multiple Young albums. Young wrote that he first met Mazer in Nashville in January 1971, when he was appearing on The Johnny Cash Show and working on his upcoming album, Harvest. …
Read More »Neil Young Releasing Crazy Horse Live Album/Film in February
Neil Young was not kidding when he said he was going to start releasing archival material at a much faster rate this year. Just weeks after the release of the 10-disc set Archives Volume II 1972-1976 and the live album/film Return to Greendale, he has announced that Way Down in …
Read More »Neil Young: Social Media Is 'Crippling Our Belief System'
Neil Young has responded to the violent assault on the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., with an impassioned essay that blames President Trump, social media, and the partisan press for the tragedy. He also says the situation would have played out very differently had the rioters been black. “I was …
Read More »Neil Young to Release Bottom Line 1974 Concert as Official Bootleg
A recording of Neil Young‘s surprise performance at New York’s Bottom Line on May 16th, 1974 has circulated in fan circles for decades, but it’s finally coming out officially in early 2021 as part of Young’s new official Bootleg Series. He’s calling it The Bottom Line – “Citizen Kane Jr. …
Read More »RS Charts: Lil Baby's 'My Turn' Repeats at Number One, Bob Dylan Debuts
Lil Baby‘s My Turn spent another week at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. My Turn, which was originally released in February, has quietly dominated June, and earning another 78 million streams last week. Bob Dylan‘s Rough and Rowdy Ways arrived at Number Two. Roughy and …
Read More »Neil Young Announces New 1980s Archival LP 'Road of Plenty'
Neil Young is still months away from releasing Homegrown — the legendary lost LP he shelved in 1975 and recently decided to resurrect — but he’s already plotting out his next archival releases. The newest one to enter the picture is a hodgepodge of work he recorded with Crazy Horse …
Read More »Neil Young Drops Coronavirus-Themed Video for 'Shut It Down'
Neil Young has released a new version of “Shut It Down” in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The track, originally released off last year’s Colorado with Crazy Horse, has been renamed “Shut It Down 2020.” Young and his wife, actress Daryl Hannah, made a striking new video to accompany the …
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