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Neil Young
Living With War [full album stream]
On May 2, Neil Young will release Living With War—a 10-song collection that the artist describes as a “metal folk protest”—as a digital download album. But you don’t have to wait for May 2… PopMatters is presenting a full album stream for your listening pleasure.
“This album is about exchanging ideas,” Young told CNN in a live interview last week on the steps of Warner Bros./Reprise Records in Burbank. “It’s about getting a message out. It’s about empowering people by giving them a voice. I know not everyone believes what I say is what they think, but red and blue is not black and white. We’re all together. It’s a record about unification.”
Living With War has already set fans and the media abuzz over the Internet due to its reflections on the Iraqi war and the turmoil in this country. It was written and recorded in two weeks with Young on electric guitar, vocals and harmonica, Chad Cromwell on drums, Rick Rosas on bass, and Tommy Bray on trumpet, along with a 100-member choir. One choir member, speaking to a British newspaper, said the recording session was “like being at a 12-hour peace rally.” [full album stream]
Hot Chip
“Baby Said” [MP3]
“Playboy” [MP3]
Lansing-Dreiden
“A Line You Can Cross” [MP3]
Rose Melberg
“Golden Gate Bridge” [MP3]
“The Time Has Come” [MP3]
