Neil Young Stories

Friday Album Reviews | 10 New Records You Need To Know

The National Sleep Well BeastOhios The National return with the much-anticipated follow-up to 2013s Trouble Will Find Me, and dont disappoint. Sleep Well Beast is another set of gorgeous, solemn songs, understated but affecting, conscious in every way. Production is flawless, and the lyrics are as personal and gorgeous as ever. Yet Sleep Well Beast...

New Tunes | This Week’s 10 Best Songs [8/10/17]

With a neverending flow of good music constantly being released, Tomorrow's Verse will keep you up to date on our favorite new tracks released this week. Queens Of The Stone Age The Evil Has LandedThe second track released from QOTSAs upcoming album is a lengthier psych-rock track that owes more than a little to...

Neil Young Outlines Ambitious Online Archive Project

Neil Young is nothing if not prolific. Now, the artist will combine all of his released and unreleased works in an online archive, according to a recent note on his website.Though Young already has an archival series featuring live recordings, remastered albums and box sets, this project will be interactive and chronological, featuring...

Watch Neil Young Record His New Single With A 56-Piece Orchestra

Last week, Neil Young and Promise of The Real released a new single, the politically charged Children Of Destiny.The song features a massive sound, with horns, strings and background singers augmenting the tracks simplistic songwriting.Now, Young has shared a video of the songs creation, which features a 56-piece orchestra recording live in a...

Neil Young’s “Stony” 1976 Album “Hitchhiker” May Be Released This Summer

This summer, Neil Young is reportedly gearing up to release Hitchhiker, a long-lost album originally recorded in 1976.Though unconfirmed by Young or Reprise Records, fansite Thrashers Wheat has uncovered possible evidence of an imminent release. Youngs art director Gary Burden recently posted an image that looked like the Hitchhiker album cover to his site,...

Watch Eddie Vedder Cover Springsteen, Stones And More At Boston Benefit

Last Saturday, Eddie Vedder performed at Bostons Paradise Rock Club as part of the annual Hot Stove Cool Music benefit concert, created by Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein.For the show, Vedder was backed by members of Letters To Cleo, Buffalo Tom, and Belly, as well as baseball reporter Peter Gammons.Per usual, Vedder busted...

Album Reviews | November 2015 Releases

Lettuce- Crush [11/4]Funk group Lettuce has become a staple in the festival and jam-band circuits, developing a brand of funk thats both modern and classic. Above all else, the bands music is good fun, as all good funk should be. Crush, the bands fourth studio release, is intended to capture the bands live energy, featuring...

Review / Photos / Full Show Video | Farm Aid 30

Words: Carmel O' Farrell | Photos: Kristine Condon Photography & Paul NatkinAfter 30 years, Farm Aid is one of longest running benefit concerts.Rockers Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Mellencamp have been returning to this yearly event since its inception. Not only do they serve as this iconic festival's headliners, theyve also made it their...

Farm Aid To Celebrate 30th Anniversary In Chicago

Farm Aids 30th-Anniversary concert will take place at First Merit Bank Pavilion on Northerly Island on September 19. As always, the concert will feature board members Neil Young, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews (the latter performing with Tim Reynolds).Other guests performing include Jack Johnson, Kacey Musgraves, Old Crow Medicine Show, Mavis Staples, and...

Dear Neil, Streaming Is Just Fine [Charts]

I love Neil Young, but he really made a mess of things yesterday by taking to Facebook to complain about, of all things, streaming music. "Old Man", indeed. This is coming from the guy who recorded an album in a early 20th century phone booth.I don't deny artists the ability to take a...