The lineup has been unveiled for the 2008 Bridge School Benefit concert, with school co-founder Neil Young anchoring a bill that features Wilco, Jack Johnson, Cat Power,...
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Initially expected this fall as a fourth-quarter blockbuster, U2's next album has been pushed to early 2009 while the band continues to write and record material. ...
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Neil Young has snared two of alternative rock's biggest bands to open for his fall North American tour. Death Cab For Cutie will open the first portion, beginning ...
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"Waylon Forever," billed as the final recordings from country "outlaw" Waylon Jennings, will be released October 21. The eight-song Vagrant Records set features remakes,...
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There's an odd co-production credit on Nils Lofgren's new album, "The Loner -- Nils Sings Neil." It's for David Briggs, the famed Neil Young cohort who passed ...
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Not every musician will make a film that features a fan facing him from a concert audience with two arms raised, middle fingers extended — more than one fan, in fact. ...
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Neil Young, the rocker who provided some of the soundtrack to Vietnam-era protests, is trying to change the world again — with his car. Young has teamed up with...
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Forget that Peter Parker dude, when it comes to spidey sense, he's got nothing on Neil Young. An East Carolina University professor has honored the Godfather of Grunge...
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Rocker Neil Young plans to release his entire music archive on Blu-ray discs, a sign that the discs' capabilities are building appeal among musicians as well as movie...
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Neil Young has another unreleased album ready to see the light of day. Indeed, despite the fact that Young still hasn't put out his decades-in-the-works "Archives"...
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With his two bandmates and their autocratic leader gathered around a dining table, David Crosby is telling a George Bush joke.
"Don't you think it'd be a good idea," he...
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Nominees announced Thursday in top categories for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards:
Record of the Year: "Irreplaceable," Beyonce; "The Pretender," Foo Fighters; "Umbrella,"...
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When Neil Young's Chrome
Dreams Tour stopped in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday for the
first of two nights at the Nokia Theatre, the stage was
speckled with vintage...
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Listeners tuning in to Chicago
alternative rock station WKQX (Q101) on August 9 heard a
catchy, guitar-driven track called "The Great Divide," followed
by an announcement...
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Neil Young is rockin' in a Chrome world.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer-songwriter has announced plans to release his next album, Chrome Dreams II, on Oct. 16...
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There's something to be said for consistency — go to Farm Aid and you see John Mellencamp, Willie Nelson, Neil Young and Dave Matthews.
For this year's inaugural show...
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It's no surprise that Neil Young plays guitar, harmonica and electric sitar on his wife Pegi's first-ever CD. What's unusual is how it happened.
Pegi used the recording...
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New York will play host later this
year to a new edition of Farm Aid, a benefit concert to help
family farms, singer Willie Nelson announced on Monday.
"Farm Aid 2007: A...
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The Farm Aid benefit concert is planting itself in New York City later this year, organizers said Monday.
The show will be held at Randalls Island on September 9.
Farm...
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As any good planter can attest, crop rotation is essential for quality control and variety.
So it makes perfect sense that Farm Aid is eschewing its traditional...
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Canada's retail music sales
fell 35% during the first quarter of 2007, continuing a near
decade-long decline attributed largely to Internet
file-swapping, an industry...
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Neil Young has helped out on his wife's debut album.
Pegi Young's self-titled LP will come out on June 12, and features her husband on a variety of instruments.
The album...
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Neil Young has been a consistent
presence on the charts since the late 1960s, but only once has
he ever debuted higher than the No. 6 position enjoyed this
week by the...
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Guitarist Steve Cropper loves to tell
how he auditioned Otis Redding, but there is nothing but pain
when he recalls the day the soul-music giant died in a plane
crash 40...
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David Crosby won't be carrying on anytime soon.
The '60s folk-rock legend was forced to postpone a U.S. tour with longtime music partner Graham Nash, citing "medical...
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David Crosby and Graham Nash,
members of one of the top rock groups of the 1960s and 1970s,
have postponed a U.S. tour due to Crosby's ill health, a
representative...
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Mary J. Blige has a leading eight Grammy nominations and her triumphant comeback was the feel-good story of the 2006. So it seems as if her coronation on Grammy night is all...
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Here's the complete list of nominees for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. The awards will be presented Feb. 11 in Los Angeles:
Album Of The Year
Taking the Long Way,...
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The charts got Game...and vice versa.
The erstwhile Dr. Dre and 50 Cent protégé scored big as his latest solo outing, Doctor's Advocate, debuted at number...
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Canadian rock act Nickelback will
hit the road one last time to promote its hit album "All the
Right Reasons," which has sold four million copies in the
United States since...
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You could say Americana,
that indefinable roots music, is the new punk rock. But the
punks in question are older and make a lot of money.
Last week, a record 1,200 people...
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Somewhere in her
evolution, Natalie Cole grew a bit confusing.
A pop-savvy brand of strong-female soul ballads and the
ultra-positive "This Will Be" gave her instant cred...
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Farm Aid is ready to kick out the jams and, um, polkas.
With the annual daylong music fest turning 21, founders
Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp unveiled an...
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This year's Farm Aid benefit concert will feature not only the nearly annual show's mainstays such as Neil Young and Willie Nelson, but also genres from polka to...
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Former Beatle Paul McCartney has pulled
out of a Los Angeles fundraiser for land mine victims because
of his impending divorce from wife Heather Mills, the charity
said on...
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A giant peace symbol
often served as a backdrop Sunday night, but it didn't always
look peaceful. When Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young began a run of
the first four songs from...
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Back before the Drive-By
Truckers got it in gear, when Ryan Adams was still settling in
Whiskeytown, the Bottle Rockets were setting off musical M-80s
as perhaps the most...
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Rocker-turned-preacher
Richard Furay, a founding member of Buffalo Springfield and
Poco, says he long felt overlooked for his contributions to two
1960s bands that pioneered...
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As Beck took the stage at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, he had dancers in bear suits and a band that played on water glasses and dinner plates.
He also had a...
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Rock stars, country stars and even songwriters have their own halls of fame. Now their backing musicians are getting into the act, too.
The Musicians Hall of Fame and...
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Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint had crossed paths before.
More than two decades ago, the British rocker called on the renowned producer, pianist and songwriter to...
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If pop star Michelle Branch and her pal Jessica Harp had their way, their new country album "Stand Still, Look Pretty" would have registered even higher on the twang...
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Jerry Lee Lewis will inaugurate Time
Life's "Legends of American Music" with the three-disc boxed
set "Jerry Lee Lewis: A Half Century of Hits."
The June 13 release was...
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Rock band Pearl Jam is focusing on
politics and charity in its 2006 summer tour, railing against
the Iraq war and promising a dollar to a local charity from
every ticket...
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Rocker Neil Young may want Sen. Barack Obama to run for president, but the freshman Democratic senator from Illinois isn't having any of it — at least not yet.
In his...
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers have
lashed out at a music pirate who leaked the funk-rock band's
upcoming album onto the Internet, and urged fans not to
download it...
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It sometimes seems as though the guitar solo, that staple of rock 'n' roll, has noodled its way into obscurity.
Much of today's rock looks elsewhere for its bravado. More...
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Rocker Neil Young on Tuesday won a
bankruptcy court ruling to form a joint venture with Lionel
LLC, the storied model train maker operating under protection
from...
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If the snippets Neil Young is posting on his Web site are any indication, his upcoming album, "Living With War," will be a serious musical broadside against the Bush...
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Neil Young's 1989 anthem "Rockin' in the Free World" was
scathingly critical of the social policies of then-president George
Bush. Now the rock icon has found himself a new...
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For the filming of "Neil Young: Heart of Gold," Young insisted on a little superstition. Only during a full moon.
"That's the only time he'd do it," director Jonathan...
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Three new concert films — "Neil Young: Heart of Gold," "Dave Chappelle's Block Party" and the Beastie Boys' "Awesome; I ... Shot That!" — take different approaches...
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The 20th annual South by Southwest music festival, which begins Wednesday in Austin, Texas, features a few veterans who exemplify the fest's independent streak.
Neil...
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This year's crop of inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are as disparate as could be. A quick rundown on what the class of 2006 did to arrive at the pearly gates of...
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In an age when classic
rock has been reduced to ringtones and soundtracks to TV
commercials, it was refreshing to see Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs attempt to transform...
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Veteran power-pop
singer/songwriter Matthew Sweet and Bangles crooner Susanna Hoffs may not seem to the casual fan like the perfect pairing
for a duets album, but when it...
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Nickelback, the first Canadian band to debut No. 1 on the Billboard chart in over 30 years, received a leading six nominations Wednesday for Canada's annual top music...
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Most concert films look alike. The panoramas of the band and crowd from the back of the theater. The cameras slowly panning, cameramen skulking about and getting in one...
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Dave Grohl's Foo Fighters, once described by bassist Nate Mendel as an "accidental" band, now have ten years under their belt, are playing bigger shows than ever and are up...
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"Prairie Wind" is a
smart, aesthetically understated documentation of Neil Young's
two-night stand at Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium last
year, shortly after he...
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For an event about movies, this
week's Sundance Film Festival has featured a parade of
musicians, from Neil Young to the Beastie Boys, to offer new
insight into singers and...
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We've seen Neil Young the hard rocker. Neil the angry protest singer. Neil the rockabilly crooner. Neil the grunge guitarist.
For two nights at Nashville's Ryman...
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The emancipation of Mariah
Carey from all things that
Glitter seems
complete.
The songbird soared with eight
Grammy nominations
Thursday, including an Album of the...
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Without a shaman or some supernatural help, Carlos Santana's
All That I Am didn't have enough to beat back the latest Now
That's What I Call Music! for chart supremacy this...
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Nothing like a stripped-down Alicia Keys to get music fans in a
tizzy.
The nine-time Grammy-winning R&B songstress--known
for such hits as "If I Ain't Got You," "You...
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In times of war, tragedy and turmoil, many hit songs have eloquently expressed a collective angst. But even though Hurricane Katrina has already inspired several musical...
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The Redneck Woman has gotten all jacked up on the charts.
Gretchen Wilson, the country music rebel who created a huge splash with
last year's surprise hit Here for the...
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Country singer Gretchen Wilson's
second album opened at No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts Wednesday,
ahead of new releases by Sheryl Crow, Toni Braxton and
incarcerated rapper...
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Neil Young acknowledges that a lot of personal reflection went into his latest album — he recorded it in the days before he underwent surgery for a brain...
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The evening might have
begun with a funeral dirge, but the atmosphere Tuesday night at
Madison Square Garden was hardly funereal.
Rather, this all-star benefit concert for...
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Farm Aid staged its 20th
annual star-studded benefit concert on Sunday, pledging help
for overlooked rural victims of Hurricane Katrina and defending
against charges of...
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With his caustic demeanor and
diverse musical influences, Stephen Stills helped elevate
Crosby, Stills & Nash beyond a mere hippie folk trio.
The man behind such tunes as...
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The producer of Friday's one-hour telethon to benefit Hurricane Katrina victims said no special precautions will be taken to edit out political statements — even though...
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Hurricane Katrina may be long gone, but the storm surrounding Kanye
West's controversial off-script rap lingers.
The hip-hop
star's impromptu anti-President Bush,...
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The last time rapper Kanye West
appeared on a TV show to raise money for Hurricane Katrina
victims, he accused U.S. President George W. Bush of racism.
This time, producers...
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At the rate he's going, Paul McCartney's fans will definitely still
need him when he's 64.
The former Beatle, who turned 63 in
June, is showing no signs of slowing down...
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Upcoming celebrity benefits to raise money for relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina:
• Kevin Smith is holding an online auction on his Web site,...
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Sheryl Crow, the Dixie
Chicks, Randy Newman, Neil Young, Rod Stewart, Alicia Keys and
Paul Simon will perform during Friday's Hurricane Katrina
benefit organized by the...
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Celebrities including Ellen DeGeneres, Jay Leno, Master P and Dave Matthews are contributing star power to relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
DeGeneres, a...
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Even when she's in love, Juliana Hatfield is miserable. Not that she always realizes it.
The durable singer-songwriter, who says she is "always
frustrated and anxious and...
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Pixies lead singer Frank Black takes the prize in this year's derby for Oddest Duet, inviting his ex-wife to sing about their failed relationship on his new solo...
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If anyone seems born to write and sing songs, it's Holly Williams. Her grandfather is American music icon Hank Williams, her father the country outlaw Hank Williams Jr. She...
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It's an odd cast of characters: an
Armenian-American thrash-rock quartet; a cartoon band that
exists mainly in cyberspace; a pair of supposed siblings (or
exes) with a...
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After 20 years, Farm Aid is getting back to its roots.
The annual daylong musicfest launched by Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp
and Neil Young in 1985 to aid ailing...
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No, you're not smoking something--the cover of Willie Nelson's new
reggae album comes in two separate versions: regular and Wal-Mart.
The cover art of Countryman,...
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Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp
announced plans on Monday for Farm Aid No. 20, with an emphasis
on saving family farms by creating demands for organic food and
alternative...
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Willie Nelson is so prolific that sometimes even he forgets he has another record coming out.
At a recent show here with Bob Dylan, Nelson performed a long list of hits,...
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Three days after the Live 8 concerts were heard around the world,
their impact continues to reverberate.
The musical
extravaganza which took place in nine venues...
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Canadian favorite Tom Cochrane kicked off Canada's Live 8 concert with "Life is a Highway" before 35,000 roaring fans, moving the global event into North...
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In Berlin, Green Day proclaimed its majesty with a cover of Queen's "We Are the Champions" as R.E.M. performed "Man on the Moon" in London. And R.E.M. hadn't left the stage...
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They started by predicting a riot, but instead there was brotherly love at the U.S. version of the global Live 8 extravaganza.
"Right now you're watching the biggest...
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Neil Young will mark his return on stage by performing at Canada's Live 8 concert Saturday, three months after he was treated for a brain aneurysm.
Young will close out...
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Park Place in Barrie, Ontario,
doesn't quite have the same ring to it as Rome's Circus
Maximus, the Palace of Versailles, Hyde Park or the Brandenburg
Gate in Berlin as the...
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Those West End Boys are headed east end on a mission of hope.
The Pet Shop Boys have been tapped to headline the newly added
Moscow installment of Saturday's Live 8...
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Destiny's Child and Linkin Park have been added to the lineup for the Live 8 concert in Philadelphia on July 2.
The additions were announced Thursday, one day after...
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Twenty years later, it is still considered one of the greatest rock 'n' roll concerts of all time. During Live Aid, top musicians played simultaneous shows in London and...
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Twenty years after the Live Aid concerts, musical superstars are joining in a five-city spectacular to push a political solution for African poverty.
"We don't want...
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Country music icon Willie Nelson is trying something a little different. Nelson, 72, will release a long-awaited reggae album, "Countryman" in July.
He shot video in...
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In 1999, a group of concert promoters claimed to have reinvented Woodstock, resulting in another example of how attempts to replicate the past tend to produce something...
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Here's an image hard to get out of your head: wiry singer-songwriter Aimee Mann), chronicler of the emotionally fragile, whaling the tar out of somebody in a boxing...
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Neil Young is recovering from surgery to correct a brain aneurysm. Young first experienced problems with his eyesight while in New York City three weeks ago to induct the...
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Neil Young may have a heart of gold, but his head hasn't been
doing so good.
The legendary rocker was treated for a
brain aneurysm Tuesday in New York, his publicist...
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Shooter Jennings sets his own outlaw
country tone while paying respects to his old man from the
outset of "Put the 'O' Back in Country," his debut album, which
Universal...
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U2 may have found what they're looking for...immortality.
After a quarter-century of pushing musical boundaries in an everlasting
bid to lay claim to the title of...
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Irish rockers U2 were inducted into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, led by their charismatic singer
Bono, whose work on behalf of Africa's poor have also earned
him status...
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Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, and Neil Young have signed on as inductors for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony on March 14 in New York City. According...
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Madonna , Elton John , Nelly, Kenny Chesney and other musicians converged on an NBC Universal studio Saturday for a hastily arranged TV benefit concert for tsunami...
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A trip to "The Red Light
District" scored Ludacris his second consecutive No. 1 album on
the U.S. pop charts Wednesday.
The Atlanta rapper/actor's fourth Disturbing Tha...
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Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can't get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV's "Pimp My Ride"?
Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician...
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The holiday mood at independent
music retailers is one of cautious optimism, despite Nielsen
SoundScan numbers showing that overall sales at U.S. indie
merchants were down...
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Same Bonnaroo time, same Bonnaroo
place.
The fourth annual Bonnaroo Music Festival will be held June
10-12, 2005, returning to the 700-acre site in rural
Manchester,...
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Like most bands on the road this
summer, Incubus witnessed first-hand the downturn in the
concert market via sluggish ticket sales and the occasional
apathetic...
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Admitting to being intimidated in
the presence of a former Beatle, Neil Young joined forces with
Paul McCartney on Thursday to perform at a $500-per-seat
fundraiser to...
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The long blond hair and sexy magazine covers that forged British rock star Peter Frampton 's image as a teen idol of the 1970s are gone. That's just fine with the recently...
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Although not an announced part of
the lineup, Neil Young spent the weekend making appearances at
Vote for Change tour stops in Toledo, Ohio and Detroit.
Sources suggest...
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Tuesday (Oct. 5) marks the release
date for two soundtracks related to the Michael Moore
documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11." The DVD of the movie arrives the
same...
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Paul McCartney , the Red Hot Chili
Peppers, Tony Bennett , Sonic Youth, Ben Harper and the Innocent
Criminals, Los Lonely Boys and Tegan & Sara will join event
founder Neil...
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Johnny Cash's guitars, his black
leather boots and a tin cup from Folsom Prison are among the
memorabilia from the late country music star displayed on
Tuesday ahead of an...
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Flamboyant funk music pioneer Rick
James, a dynamic performer famed for the sensuous 1981 dance
hit "Super Freak (Part 1)" as well as a descent into drugs and
crime, died in...
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Bruce Springsteen has finally been drafted.
After weeks of speculation as to whether or not the megastar would play
a protest concert at Giants Stadium during the...
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Poco drummer George Grantham is recovering after suffering a
stroke and collapsing during a concert last week.
The
easy-rocking '70s outfit was one song into its set...
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The historic 1985 Live Aid concert
will finally be released on DVD in the fall.
Earlier this year, the Band Aid Trust agreed to auction the
global rights for the concerts...
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Wilco's music is, by turns, enigmatic, compelling, thrilling and absorbing. And it's often — let's be honest here — just plain weird. Sometimes it's many of those...
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After more than 15 years on
Warner Bros. Records, k.d. lang is switching to Nonesuch
Records.
Her first release for Nonesuch will be "Hymns of the 49th
Parallel," out July...
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The newly private Warner Music
Group, having significantly reduced its worldwide staff, is now
turning its cost-cutting efforts toward its artists.
As part of the...
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Wilco, which was forced to cancel
eight concerts while frontman Jeff Tweedy undergoes rehab for a
painkiller addiction, will play three dates on the Lollapalooza
road show...
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Kurt Cobain and his band, Nirvana, spent only three years in the public eye, and they released only three studio albums. But what he accomplished before committing suicide...
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People who swap songs on the Internet in
Canada can remain anonymous after a Canadian court decision on
Wednesday.
The Federal Court of Canada rejected a request from...
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Performers at the nation's
biggest gathering of bands here always face Vegas-style odds.
Yet acts ranging from major-label properties to unsigned
regional groups -- more...
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Neil Young wants to talk about
vegetable oil.
It would be reasonable to expect that the rock 'n' roll
veteran has more pressing matters on his mind -- he's just
launched...
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The first time OutKast got a Grammy nomination for best album, in 2002, hip-hop's eclectic duo was upstaged by the old-time bluegrass of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"
Two...
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On January 23rd, 1958, Brunswick Records released "Maybe Baby" backed with "Tell Me How" by The Crickets.
In 1970, singer Judy Collins was denied permission to sing her...
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With his $2.6 billion purchase of
Warner Music from Time Warner Inc., Edgar Bronfman Jr. is
betting that a privately-held record company can be more nimble
and more...
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David Crosby and Graham Nash will
enter the studio in January to record their first album
together as a duo in almost 30 years.
"We are excited as hell because we have a...
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Anyone can write songs, John Mellencamp told a class on rock music history at Indiana University, urging students to go home and get started.
"There are going to be...
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The government has pledged to investigate the troubles behind a celebrity-studded concert series that will cost taxpayers millions of dollars as Hong Kong tries to bounce...
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The Rolling Stones rocked Hong Kong
for the first time in their 40-year career on Friday,
headlining a government-sponsored music festival that has angry
taxpayers singing...
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The Man in Black is reaching out to fans from beyond the grave.
Next month Johnny
Cash not only becomes the focus of an all-star
concert, but also a just-announced...
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Dave Matthews, Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, and John Mellencamp are just a few of the big-name acts performing at Farm Aid 2003 on Sunday (September 7). The...
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Neil Young's "Let's Roll" is enjoying a second life thanks to the Midwestern rock band Shooting Star. The group--which had success in the '80s with songs including "Last...
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Neil Young will kick off his first solo acoustic tour in nearly four years next month in Europe. Young starts the tour April 22 at the Cirkus Djurgarden in Stockholm,...
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Neil Young played host to Radiohead's Thom Yorke, James Taylor, the Foo Fighters, and others during the first night of the 16th annual Bridge School Benefit Concert at the...
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Foo Fighters, Thom Yorke of Radiohead, James Taylor, Ryan Adams, Jack Johnson, Vanessa Carlton, surviving Grateful Dead members the Other Ones, and Tenacious D will perform...
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One of the first pieces of music to be released that dealt specifically with the events of September 11 was Neil Young's "Let's Roll." Young, who at the time was finishing...
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Neil Young's European tour ended on a downer when he had to cancel his Wednesday (May 22) show at London's Brixton Academy because of the flu. It was to be the second of a...
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You can't say fans weren't waiting for Neil Young's new album. Are You Passionate?, the latest entry to his canon, debuts at Number 10 on the upcoming Billboard 200 chart...
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Neil Young's new album, Are You Passionate?, comes out Tuesday (April 9). It features 11 original songs including "Let's Roll," his paean to the September 11 United Airlines...
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Neil Young has been hit with the flu, forcing some changes in the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY) tour. The group was forced to postpone Friday's (March 15) show at the...
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During the America: A Tribute To Heroes telethon on September 21, Neil Young surprised viewers with a rendition of John Lennon's "Imagine." Some thought this might have been...
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY) are taking a brief break from rehearsals for their upcoming tour, which starts February 6 at Michigan's Palace Of Auburn Hills. The group...
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Neil Young has set March 26 as the release date for his latest solo album, Are You Passionate? Interestingly, Young will be on the road at the time, in the midst of a...
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Although no date has been officially determined, Neil Young is planning a spring release for his next solo album, currently titled Are You Passionate?
The 11-track...
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The always unpredictable Neil Young was at it again this week, surprising attendees at a dinner where he received an award for promoting freedom, justice, and liberty by...
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Dave Matthews paid tribute to Neil Young in words and song at an event that honored the rock legend for his efforts at promoting freedom and justice through his music in...
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Dave Matthews, Rufus Wainwright, T-Bone Burnett, Sam Phillips, and Jackson Browne are all scheduled to perform songs by Neil Young at a ceremony honoring the...
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Neil Young has recorded a new song about September 11 and sent it to radio stations around the country. The track, called "Let's Roll," was inspired by the actions of Todd...
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Neil Young will be honored by an anti-Jerry Falwell organization for his efforts in supporting democracy through his music. The rock legend will receive the Spirit Of...
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Two years after Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's successful reunion tour, the band will hit the road again next year for Tour Of America. The trek kicks off February 6 at the...
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It should come as no surprise that Neil Young & Crazy Horse have been playing new songs on their current European tour. In a post on his website, Crazy Horse bassist Billy...
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse have been announced as the special guests of the Dave Matthews Band at a show on April 21. Matthews is the headline act at the University of...
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers are set to play a March 1 benefit at the Hollywood Palladium for substance abuse counselor Gloria Scott. Also on the bill is Neil Young & Crazy...
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Neil Young is the latest musician to come out against free music on the Internet. In an interview with the Argentinean newspaper La Nacion, Young acknowledged that he...
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There's trouble afoot at the headquarters of Lionel Trains, the model train company that's co-owned by Neil Young. The company has announced that it might close its main...
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Neil Young fans in the San Francisco area are getting a preview of his upcoming dates with Crazy Horse. They put three shows on sale at the last minute for the Warfield...
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Neil Young's upcoming live album, Road Rock Volume 1, will be accompanied by a DVD and video, according to Reprise Records. The Red Rocks Live, Friends & Relatives DVD and...
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Although fans are still waiting for the release of his Anthology collection and an album from the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reunion tour, Neil Young's next project will...
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There was a big political presence at Farm Aid concert on Sunday (September 17), outside Washington, D.C., at the Nissan Pavilion in Virginia. Tipper Gore was there and...
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Under a perfect late-summer sky, acts from across the musical spectrum came together at the Nissan Pavilion in Virginia Sunday (September 17) for the 15th anniversary Farm...
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It's not enough that Beck will be making an appearance at Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit on Oct. 28 and 29. Now he's decided to open the last four shows for the...
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Drummer Jim Keltner--whose list of credits is among the longest in rock--has been having a Neil Young year. He was tapped by Young to be part of the Crosby, Stills, Nash &...
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The lineup for this year's Farm Aid benefit concert is starting to come together, and it's one of the more inclusive bills fans are likely to find anywhere. In addition to...
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Farm Aid 2000 will take place September 17. Mainstays Neil Young, John Mellencamp, and Willie Nelson will all be on hand at the Nissan Pavilion, the Washington, D.C.-area...
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Neil Young
is being sued for more than $1.8 million by Jimmy McDonough, a former Village Voice writer who claims the singer-songwriter is in breach of contract for a...
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One of the more provocative songs on Neil Young's new album, Silver & Gold, is "Buffalo Springfield Again." In the song, he waxes sentimentally about the '60s band that...
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In stores today (April 25) is Silver & Gold, the long-awaited acoustic album from Neil Young. Young started working on the album during 1997, after he and his electric band...
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Sporting a backwards baseball cap and a
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 2000 leather tour jacket,
Neil Young received his star on Canada's Walk Of Fame in Toronto on...
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Don't say his homeland doesn't appreciate
Neil Young. The iconoclastic singer-songwriter will receive a star on the Canada Walk of Fame in Toronto, where he was born 55...
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The wind-down of the
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reunion tour in late April will not signal a break for Neil Young. On April 25, Young will release two products - his...
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The new Neil Young album, Silver & Gold, has a release date -- again. The album has been delayed several times since Young started working on it in mid-1997, but his...
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For a dozen years now, R.E.M. has given members of its fan club an exclusive single, and 1999 is no exception. A few members of the club have received the band's first CD...
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In stores today (Oct. 26) is Looking Forward, the anxiously awaited new album from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. It's the superstar quartet's first release since 1988's...
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The reunited Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young will not make their live debut at Neil Young's annual Bridge School Benefit concerts in Mountain View, Calif. over the Halloween...
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David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young were in Madison Square Garden today to announce their forthcoming album, Looking Forward, and their CSNY2K...
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The reunited Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young are set to officially announce the CSNY2K tour during a press conference today (Oct. 12) in New York City, but one detail is...
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Farm Aid '99, featuring Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp, plus the Dave Matthews Band, Barenaked Ladies, and others, is set for Sunday (Sept. 12) in Prince...
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Farm Aid founders Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp joined several other artists on a conference call to discuss this year's event, which is scheduled for...
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The final track list and sequence is in for the new Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young album, the supergroup's first release since 1988's American Dream.
The album, due in...
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Neil Young is among the many guests and collaborators on Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions, the new duo project by Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris. The pair recruited...
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Everlast may be best known for his double-platinum-certified album Whitey Ford Sings The Blues, which features the modern rock hits "What It's Like" and "Ends," as well as...
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The rumors about a 1999 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reunion are indeed true, says David Crosby, who spoke to LAUNCH about the project prior to an appearance on the...
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...And the presenters for the 6th Annual Patrick Lippert Awards are Beck and Stevie Wonder. The multitalented Señor Hansen will present a 1999 Lippert Award to Neil...
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Neil Young has made a career out of making left turns. Yesterday he threw another one at fans with the announcement of a solo tour, just as word of a Crosby, Stills, Nash &...
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Farm Aid '98 will be held October 3, and for the first time it in its 12-year history, the day-long benefit concert will be telecast live on CMT for six hours, starting at...
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Singer-songwriter David Crosby is jumping into the movie business with Stand And Be Counted, a documentary about the role of popular music in social activism and political...
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One-time record industry kingpin Warner Bros. Records, home to Neil Young, Green Day, Madonna and Eric Clapton, has sliced 35 people from its payroll.
In an ongoing effort...
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Third Eye Blind was the big winner Saturday at the first annual California Music Awards, taking home three Bammies. Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins and Kevin Cadogan won...
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SoundScan, which tallies the weekly charts for Billboard magazine, has determined that WEA, home to Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Green Day and Prodigy, was 1997's top U.S....
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Film director Jim Jarmusch--the auteur behind such art-house favorites as Mystery Train, Stranger Than Paradise and Night On Earth--will release the first-ever Neil Young &...
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