Features
Tuesday, February 15 2011
Defending The Trick of Disaster: Neil Young’s 'Trans', Reconsidered
Nearly 30 years later, Trans remains the most baffling, bizarre, and misunderstood project in Neil Young’s oeuvre. Here’s why it’s great.
Friday, December 24 2010
The 70 Best Albums of 2010
PopMatters is on its annual publishing break until 3 January 2011, except for some film reviews and blogs. In the meantime, enjoy some of the year's best...
The year's best albums are highlighted by the emergence of a future superstar, two veteran and virtuoso rappers, and a Dream Team of indie bands releasing career peaks.
Friday, December 18 2009
The Best Re-Issues of 2009
PopMatters presents our 20 best re-issues of 2009, highlighted by the long overdue remastering of the Beatles oeuvre, a number of '80s and '90s classics, and one of the most storied catalogues in electronic music.
Thursday, December 17 2009
The Best Live Albums of 2009
This has been a year teeming with one of the most robust outputs of live recordings in recent memory.
Wednesday, July 30 2008
The Innovators
Sometimes changing the course of modern music can be surprisingly easy. Though their names may not be laced in the stars right next to Sinatra and Dylan, these mavericks will always be remembered for breaking boundaries, stretching the definitions of genres, and rewriting what the very notion of a "pop song" is.
Reviews
Sunday, July 17 2011
Lots of Talk, Little Action in 'Neil Young’s Music Box: Here We Are In the Years'
Neil Young’s Music Box: Here We Are In the Years is an unauthorized documentary DVD in which music critics discuss Neil Young's musical influences, as well as his ongoing influence on his peers and musicians that have come in his wake.
Monday, June 13 2011
Neil Young: A Treasure
A Treasure shows us a curious side to Young as a performer, and confirms his unpredictable artistic vision, but its biggest feat is salvaging solid songs from subpar albums.
Wednesday, May 25 2011
Neil Young: 10 May 2011 - Massey Hall, Toronto
Here’s the thing. Neil Young returned to Massey Hall and gave an OK, at times kinda lousy, show.
Monday, September 27 2010
Neil Young: Le Noise
Neil Young, Daniel Lanois, and Old Black team up to deliver a late-career masterpiece.
Friday, April 9 2010
Neil Young Trunk Show
Trunk Show earns the highest compliment a concert film can get: you forget you're watching a movie and instead feel like you've got the best seats in the house.
Blogs
Friday, July 29 2011
Counterbalance No. 44: Neil Young’s 'After the Gold Rush'
This special morning brings another sun—and another edition of Counterbalance. This week, it's Neil Young's 1970 masterpiece After the Gold Rush. It’s No. 44 on Acclaimed Music’s All-Time Greatest Albums list. Eric Klinger and Jason Mendelsohn have a listen.
Monday, March 23 2009
Neil Young - Cough Up the Bucks (video)
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…
Saturday, March 14 2009
Neil Young - "Johnny Magic"/"Light a Candle" (video)
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…
Thursday, January 15 2009
Neil Young - "Transformer Man"
“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…
Wednesday, February 21 2007
Neil Young: Live at Massey Hall
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…
News
Wednesday, June 15 2011
Neil Young releases what Geffen Records didn't consider 'A Treasure'
LOS ANGLES — The recent news that country singer Tim McGraw's record company is suing him over his latest album is just the latest of…
Tuesday, September 21 2010
Neil Young and Daniel Lanois Click on 'Le Noise'
Le Noise is technically a solo recording, just Young and one guitar — an electric instrument on six, an acoustic on the other two, recorded live with no overdubs, no Crazy Horse, no Crosby, Stills, Nash or any of the other pals who've often accompanied Young over the last four decades.
Saturday, March 20 2010
Director Demme can't get enough of that Neil Young
PHILADELPHIA — Along with an Academy Award-winning career directing dramatic films — he won for "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991) — Jonathan Demme has…
Monday, November 26 2007
Five milestones in the career of an artist who defies boundaries
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…
Tuesday, November 6 2007
Neil Young brilliantly journeys through his past
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…
