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Articles tagged "neil young" Music ReviewNeil Young: Fork in the Roadby Michael Metivier[7.Apr.09] :. "Light a Candle" distills Neil Young's efforts to promote and pursue zero-emissions fuel technology into something haunting and beautiful. Unfortunately, Fork in the Road features nine other songs. Mixed MediaNeil Young - Cough Up the Bucks (video)by Matt White[23.Mar.09] :. Here’s the fourth no budget music video Neil Young has made for his upcoming album Fork in the Road. “Cough Up the Bucks” addresses these hard economic times and asks... Mixed MediaNeil Young - “Johnny Magic”/“Light a Candle” (video)by Matt White[14.Mar.09] :. Neil Young has been making a series of no budget music videos for his upcoming album Fork in the Road. The title track was released last month and now we have two different videos for... Sound AffectsNeil Young - “Transformer Man”by Matt White[15.Jan.09] :. “They put me down for fuckin’ around with things I didn’t understand… for getting involved with something I shouldn’t have been involved with… well, FUCK...  Events ReviewNeil Young + Wilco + Everestby Chad Berndtson[12.Jan.09] :. Neil Young's final triumph? Rocking hard enough and with high enough drama to make one of the premier live bands of the decade sound like a lightweight opening act. Neil Young: Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968by Zach Schonfeld[5.Jan.09] :. Neil Young's newest archival release is the clear precursor to last year's Live at Massey Hall: a portrait of a young artist plotting his solo course. Live recordings flourish in spite of technologyby Greg Kot [Chicago Tribune (MCT)][19.Nov.08] :. It has served as a star-making vehicle for everyone from James Brown to Peter Frampton. It went through an unplugged phase that allowed listeners to glimpse their pop heroes in a more informal... CSNY / Déjà Vuby Stuart Henderson[4.Nov.08] :. Neil Young's politically-charged documentary is moving without being cloying, dark without being despairing, and clever when it could have been just plain obvious. E.S.L.: Eye Contactby Chris Conaton[28.Aug.08] :. A band that consists of piano, cello, violin, and drums. An all-female group unafraid to cover Neil Young and the Beastie Boys. A song that compares a lover to Secretariat. E.S.L. is all of these things. Yes, Nils Lofgren is an E Street Band guitarist, but he has his music, tooby Timothy Finn [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][26.Aug.08] :. One of the most recognizable parts of one of Neil Young’s most beloved songs is the piano in “After the Gold Rush.” Nils Lofgren was 18 - with no piano training - when he recorded... Yellow Hand: Yellow Handby Alan Ranta[22.Jul.08] :. Featuring covers of still unreleased Young and Stills demos, many in 1970 thought this was a lost Buffalo Springfield album. More knew better. Neil Young is putting his past on Blu-rayby Brandon Bailey [San Jose Mercury News (MCT)][14.May.08] :. Rebellious rocker Neil Young hates the sound of compact discs. So he waited 15 years for a different technology, which he says will allow him to share his life’s work the way he wants his fans... Five milestones in the career of an artist who defies boundariesby Ben Edmonds [Detroit Free Press (MCT)][26.Nov.07] :. Ever since the Beatles introduced self-determination into the pop music process, pop’s insatiable desire for more of the same has been challenged by a series of inspired musical chameleons... Neil Young brilliantly journeys through his pastby Ben Wener [The Orange County Register (MCT)][6.Nov.07] :. LOS ANGELES—You’d be forgiven if you confused last Tuesday for a randomly selected date from 1975, what with the Eagles issuing their first new album in almost three decades the same day... Neil Young: Chrome Dreams IIby Michael Franco[22.Oct.07] :. Young has finally figured out that instead of making two or three lackluster albums followed by a solid one, he can apply the same technique to a single LP. If ever an album were custom made for iTunes, this is it. Neil Young: Live At Massey Hallby Sean Murphy[20.Mar.07] :. This is Neil Young as accessible and honest as he has ever been, busy at work on the soundtrack of his life, an open letter to anyone willing to listen. Neil Young: Live at Massey Hallby PopMatters Staff[21.Feb.07] :. Neil Young: Live At Massey Hall (release date: March 13), produced by Young and the late David Briggs, is the second Reprise Records release in the Neil Young Archives Performance Series,... Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006)by Wayne Robins[12.Jun.06] :. Together, Neil Young and Jonathan Demme make the graying of the quintessential baby boom musician a triumph to be celebrated. Neil Young: Living With Warby Michael Metivier[8.May.06] :. Neil Young may not have been born in the USA, but on Living With War he sounds born to run. Neil Young: Greatest Hitsby Zeth Lundy[3.Jan.05] :. As a one-disc career-spanning compilation, Greatest Hits manages well, even if the two-disc retrospective Decade (1977) offers more in-depth analysis. Neil Young: Greendaleby Scott Hreha[29.Aug.03] :. Greendale should be seen as nothing less than a serious achievement by an artist who has never been content to simply rest on his past glories—an achievement worthy of even more acclaim in a culture where nostalgia outweighs iconoclasm on a daily basis. Neil Young, Friends & Relatives: Road Rock Volume 1by Wilson Neate[21.Nov.00] :. You have to ask yourself if the world really needs another live Neil Young release at this point. It might be redundant, and it might smack somewhat of contractual obligations, but Road Rock Vol. 1 will of course please completists. Neil Young: Silver And Goldby Bill Holmes[25.Apr.00] :. Although Silver And Gold finds Neil Young further on down the road, he’s yet to show signs that the well is even getting shallow, let alone drying up. Neil Young: Landing on Waterby Dave HeatonEven at the album’s worst moments, though, you have to give Young credit for trying new things, for not being afraid to shake up his act a bit. |
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