Neil Young is reuniting with longtime backing band Crazy Horse for another album. According to Young’s fansite Thrasher’s Wheat, the singer announced the news over the weekend at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
Jimmy Fallon‘s covers of pop songs and internet sensations which are channeled through Neil Young are not a new thing. We’ve seen Fallon’s Young persona sing hits such as the theme song to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, General Larry Platt’s “Pants On the Ground,” in addition to a melodic rendition of the Double Rainbow guy on YouTube.
This time around, Fallon/Young tackles a 10-year-old’s hit song, “Whip My Hair.” Are we talking about the one and only Willow Smith? Of course, we are. We especially want to point you in the direction of Fallon’s cover because of his special guest. Check it out after the jump!
Ok, classic rock fans, brace thyselves – according to NPR, a little band from the 1960s called Buffalo Springfield has decided to reunite for 2010. The group, which features Neil Young, Stephen Stills, and Richie Furay, will be (re)joining together for Young’s annual Bridge School Benefit Concert in Mountain View, California, which runs from October 23rd to the 24th.
Neil Young fans, rejoice – the cantankerous and unpredictable singer/ guitarist/ rock ‘n roll badass has just announced the release of four previously unheard records as part of his Archives 2 series. The four records, unreleased since their recording in the 1970s, will act as the follow-up to Young’s monolithic (and excellent) 10-disc Archives 1 Blu-ray boxset.
While his fellow artists continue to boycott the state of Arizona (Hall and Oates not performing in AZ – that’ll teach that mean ol’ immigration law!), the always unpredictable Neil Young has decided to swing his musical clout and focus in a different direction. Instead of railing against The Copper State, Young plans to dedicate a leg of his Twisted Road solo tour in the United States to touring the recently oil-slicked Gulf Coast, according to Spinner.
Team Coco has lost. It’s official. Conan O’Brien has been axed by NBC and what many have speculated for the past two weeks is now fact. His last episode as part of The Tonight Show legacy will air this Friday.
According to our sister site, ScreenCrave, O’Brien is being offered $32 million dollars and his production crew who moved from New York to Los Angeles for the show will be given $12 million – making the sum $44 million altogether. The deal will be confirmed later today. The soon-to-be former talk show host will be able to return to television on September 1 with any network, but what will he bring us for his last two shows?
We are back with more albums for you to check out right before the Holidays. A few of these artists are actually fairly new to me, but hopefully you’ll find something you know and/or are willing to explore. As always, there are is an old album thrown into the mix. Hey, it is on sale so it is worth mentioning (especially during the Holidays). There are albums by Bear in Heaven, Neil Young, God Help the Girl, and The Minor Canon.
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Our friends over at When You Awake will be taking over Bootleg Theatre this Friday, November 20th with a fabulous line up doing a tribute to the one and only Neil Young. The tribute concert will be raising money for the Children’s Music Fund, a local non-profit organization that provides musical instruments and Music Therapy to children with chronic and life altering illness.
If you’re in the Los Angeles area, you like Neil Young and you want help the little ones out, we highly recommend stopping by. Not only will tons of your favorite local indie bands be featured but there are also DJ sets, music inspired crafts AND a Neil Young inspired photo booth. We’re not kidding. Check out the entire line up out after the jump!
Are you ready for some old school record action? This weekend marks the annual WFMU Record Fair in NYC. To celebrate, Warner Bros. Records is bringing vinyl to the people by hosting a booth you’ve got to check out.
Warner Bros. Records General Manager Tom Biery calls himself a vinyl freak and admits that there is not better place than the WFMU show to sell music directly to fans.
“I have been going to the show for years and have always thought that having a WBR/Reprise booth to sell our records would be a ton of fun as well as a great learning experience.”
