If you believed right-wing Twitter over the past week, no one has ever heard of Neil Young, no one currently listens to Neil Young, and Neil Young is a deluded old fool who somehow believed that Spotify would choose his ancient, irrelevant music over the world’s biggest podcaster, Joe Rogan. …
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UPDATE (10/15): Neil Young and Crazy Horse’s “Song of the Seasons” is now streaming on YouTube. *** Neil Young and Crazy Horse have announced that their new album Barn will be out in December. “Barn is very special,” Young wrote to fans on the Neil Young Archives. “It rock. It …
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Farm Aid is returning on September 25th with an all-day show at Hartford, Connecticut’s 30,000-seat Xfinity Theatre, but board member Neil Young announced last week that he won’t be there. “All you people who can’t go to a concert because you still don’t feel safe, I stand with you,” he …
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Neil Young has sold 50 percent of the worldwide copyright and income interests in his 1,180 song catalogue to Hipgnosis Songs Fund Limited, the U.K. investment firm founded by manager-turned-investor Merck Mercuriadis. The move comes days after Hipgnosis, which has spent the last year snapping up music catalogs left and …
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Neil Young has recruited Norah Jones and Father John Misty to join him for Harvest Moon: A Gathering, a charity concert to benefit The Bridge School and The Painted Turtle, which allows children with serious medical conditions to attend a special summer camp free of charge. The show will take …
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Farm Aid is heading to Connecticut for the first time in its 33-year history when the annual charity show comes to Hartford’s XFINITY Theatre on September 22nd. The lineup will feature Farm Aid board members Neil Young, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson alongside Kacey Musgraves, Chris Stapleton, Sturgill …
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Wixen Music Publishing, which owns works byTom Petty, Neil Young, Weezer, the Doors and more, has sued Spotify for using thousands of songs allegedly without license and compensation, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The publishing company is reportedly seeking damages worth at least $1.6 billion, plus injunctive relief. Wixen’s lawsuit …
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