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Five Great Neil Young Covers For His 67th Birthday

Today, November 12, is the birthday of one Neil Young, gifted songwriter, whiny singer, killer guitar player, and longtime Bay Area resident. In celebration of the man's 67th, we rounded up some of the best tributes to him available in the wilds of YouTube. Featuring solo pianos, another titan of so ... More >>

Neil Young Will Answer Your Questions on Twitter Tomorrow

Got a question you've been burning to ask Neil Young? Like, perhaps, what made him want to write "Cortez the Killer," or what he was thinking when he made Trans? (Which really isn't as bad as it's cracked up to be?) Well polish those inquiries down to 140-character length, Young fans, because tomor ... More >>

Neil Young Wants Perfect Sound. Here's Why I Don't.

Today, at last, Neil Young and I are united in our ambitions: we would like you to go back in time, to Valentine's Day 1967. We want you to enter a recording studio in New York. This is a session for Atlantic Records, so the great Jerry Wexler is there, as is King Curtis and his saxophone. Most rema ... More >>

Bridge School Benefit Lineup 2012: Guns N' Roses, Flaming Lips, Jack White, and More

The lineup for the 2012 Bridge School Benefit concert is out! Big names for this year's benefit include Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Guns N' Roses, the Flaming Lips, Jack White, and Foster the People. The annual concert -- which helps support the educational institution for individuals with severe sp ... More >>

Chromatics: Show Preview

The lineup for the 2012 Bridge School Benefit concert is out! Big names for this year's benefit include Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Guns N' Roses, the Flaming Lips, Jack White, and Foster the People. The annual concert -- which helps support the educational institution for individuals with severe sp ... More >>

Neil Young Journeys: The Artist and the Director Discuss Their Third Film

The lineup for the 2012 Bridge School Benefit concert is out! Big names for this year's benefit include Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Guns N' Roses, the Flaming Lips, Jack White, and Foster the People. The annual concert -- which helps support the educational institution for individuals with severe sp ... More >>

"Neil Young Journeys": The Musician Commands the Room

The lineup for the 2012 Bridge School Benefit concert is out! Big names for this year's benefit include Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Guns N' Roses, the Flaming Lips, Jack White, and Foster the People. The annual concert -- which helps support the educational institution for individuals with severe sp ... More >>

Outside Lands 2012 Lineup: Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Stevie Wonder, Metallica, Skrillex, Jack White, Foo Fighters, and More

Outside Lands just released the lineup for 2012, its fifth year -- and it's a big one. Headliners include Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Stevie Wonder, Metallica, Skrillex, Jack White, Foo Fighters, Justice, Beck, Sigur Ros, and more. The festival takes place in Golden Gate Park Friday through Sunday, ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Outside Lands just released the lineup for 2012, its fifth year -- and it's a big one. Headliners include Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Stevie Wonder, Metallica, Skrillex, Jack White, Foo Fighters, Justice, Beck, Sigur Ros, and more. The festival takes place in Golden Gate Park Friday through Sunday, ... More >>

Is Neil Young Working on a High-Quality Digital Music Service?

Earlier this year, rock legend Neil Young made some waves in the tech world when he blasted the thin, tinny sound quality of MP3s, arguing that digital music distribution is "degrading music, not improving it." "The MP3 only has 5 percent of the data present in the original recording," Young said a ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Earlier this year, rock legend Neil Young made some waves in the tech world when he blasted the thin, tinny sound quality of MP3s, arguing that digital music distribution is "degrading music, not improving it." "The MP3 only has 5 percent of the data present in the original recording," Young said a ... More >>

New Lawsuit Says Neil Young's Fire-Starting Lincoln Continental Hybrid Was Unsafe

JackRickard.blogspot.comNeil Young and the LincVolt​Only a crazy (read: legally negligent) person would convert a 1959 Lincoln Continental to run on a hybrid of gasoline and electricity. That's the argument in a new lawsuit filed against a firm owned by Neil Young, whose custom-built hybrid ... More >>

Bridge School Benefit 2011 Lineup: Dave Matthews, Arcade Fire, Eddie Vedder, and More

Neil Young at the Bridge School Benefit. Photo by Christopher Victorio.​ The lineup for this year's Bridge School Benefit is out, and it's as solid as ever. No big reunions -- we got Buffalo Springfield last year, sigh -- but the acoustic shows Neil Young and his wife, Pegi, put on to benefit ... More >>

Buffalo Springfield Announces Tour, Fox Theater Oakland Dates

So does this kill our Outside Lands prediction? Buffalo Springfield, the seminal California folk-rock band that helped launched the careers of Neil Young and Steven Stills, plans to tour this summer, after a one-off reunion show last fall at Young's Bridge School Benefit here in the Bay Area. For th ... More >>

Photos: Neil Young, Will.I.am, Joanna Newsom, and Stevie Wonder Hung Out in S.F. This Week

Neil Young.​We missed Neil Young's benefit show for the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital at Nob Hill Masonic Center Wednesday night, which was too bad: Among others, Stevie Wonder, Will.I.am, Joe Montana, Colin Powell, and, of course, performers Neil Young and Joanna Newsom showed up. The event ra ... More >>

Neil Young, Joanna Newsom, and Colin Powell: All in S.F. for One Cause

Neil Young plays a hospital benefit next month.​My, my, hey hey: The hottest S.F. concert ticket this December might just be a benefit concert for the new UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.The headliner: A Canada-born, now-local folk-rock singer (who's had some car trouble lately) by the name of Ne ... More >>

What Else Started in Neil Young's Car?

​Yesterday, Neil Young claimed the fire that immolated his massive warehouse started in a 1959 Lincoln Continental he's had converted into the world's coolest hybrid vehicle. What else started in Neil Young's car? Neil Young's kids; The inspiration for the movie Smokey and the Bandit; The slow foo ... More >>

Neil Young's Warehouse Fire Traced to 'LincVolt' Hybrid 1959 Lincoln Continental

The damage done...​Innovative musician Neil Young has apparently found the most eclectic manner yet of triggering a million-dollar warehouse fire. An aircraft carrier-sized 1959 Lincoln Continental the singer hired a team of experts to transform into the world's largest hybrid vehicle apparently b ... More >>

Neil Young's Electric Car Started the Fire at His Warehouse

​This probably isn't exactly what Neil Young had in mind with "repowering the American dream": it turns out one of Young's pet projects, the 1959 Lincoln Continental he's turning into an electric car, started that fire in his Peninsula warehouse last week.The white landshark Continental somehow ca ... More >>

Neil Young's Warehouse Burns -- Doesn't Fade Away. My, My. Hey, Hey.

​A warehouse packed with rock musician Neil Young's memorabilia burst into flames this morning, with damages estimated at roughly $1 million. No word yet on whether Young is now reconsidering one of his most famous lyrics: "It's better to burn out than fade away."  The San Carlos warehouse wa ... More >>

Neil Young's Peninsula Warehouse Burns

Neil Young performing at the Fox Theater in July​The San Carlos warehouse Neil Young uses to store memorabilia from his more than 40-year career in music went up in flames this morning.The fire caused an estimated $1 million in damages, according to firefighters. It's unclear yet what was damaged, ... More >>

Four Opening Acts You Don't Want to Miss This Week

Eric FischerAlexa Wilding performs Saturday at Great American Music Hall​Not overstuffed, but certainly not empty -- the mid-summer brings us a straight-up solid week of shows here in the Bay Area. We'll have a couple big names heading through town, while several smaller venues are taking a pause. ... More >>

Neil Young To Play Two Solo Shows At The Fox

Christopher Victorio​A proper WHOA is in order, because this doesn't happen every day, folks: Neil Young -- the Godfather of Grunge, a Framer of Folk-Rock -- will play two solo shows at The Fox Theater in Oakland on July 11 and 12. Tickets go on presale tomorrow at 10 a.m. and they go up for real ... More >>

The Bridge School Benefit

Christopher Victorio​A proper WHOA is in order, because this doesn't happen every day, folks: Neil Young -- the Godfather of Grunge, a Framer of Folk-Rock -- will play two solo shows at The Fox Theater in Oakland on July 11 and 12. Tickets go on presale tomorrow at 10 a.m. and they go up for real ... More >>

The Aliens Beam Up Fans With New Birdman Package

From Neil Young to the Pixies, musicians are banking on fans forking over the big bucks to own more than a collection of songs. Different acts are experimenting with various ways to repackage their music to include physical odds and ends, video footage, and other goodies that help hike up revenues t ... More >>

Track of the Day: Neil Young (from the Archives)

The much discussed Neil Young Archives box set collects nine years of his work into one volume, which hits stores today. (A second volume will follow). To hear a younger Young, fans can time travel through this span of recordings made between 1963-1972, when he was performing with The Squires, Buffa ... More >>

Kill yourself if you listen to classic rock

The much discussed Neil Young Archives box set collects nine years of his work into one volume, which hits stores today. (A second volume will follow). To hear a younger Young, fans can time travel through this span of recordings made between 1963-1972, when he was performing with The Squires, Buffa ... More >>

Two New Neil Young Videos

Neil Young went DIY style for the two new videos he released recently. He plays a greedy exec rapping "cough up the bucks" into a cell phone as he rides around in a limo for "Cough Up the Bucks" (pretty funny little clip, even though the sarcasm is far from understated). Neil Young - Cough Up The ... More >>

Ten Known (and Little-Known) Facts about Neil Young

I'm Neil Young, biatch! 10. His middle name is Percival. (This actually explains his often anguished, tortured voice). 9. Before joining Buffalo Springfield, Young was in the Mynah Birds, a band fronted by future funkster Rick James. It's unclear whether he ever told James, "I'm Neil Young, biatc ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: Uzi & Ari

(Photo by by Serina Nielson) Strange when an indie record store in Salt Lake City lists among its most popular releases a relatively unknown band from San Francisco. But in the Jan. 22 issue of Rolling Stone's "local favorites" column, the Bay Area's own Uzi & Ari's Headworms was listed amo ... More >>

Bay Area Grammy Nominees: Metallica, Neil Young, Keyshia Cole

Metallica, Neil Young, and Keyshia Cole were among the Bay Area acts on the Grammys' nominee list, which made the rounds in the music industry today. Metallica is up for "Best Metal Performance," "Best Rock Instrumental Performance," and "Best Rock Album," (all related to Death Magnetic). Young got ... More >>

The Doe Duet

Metallica, Neil Young, and Keyshia Cole were among the Bay Area acts on the Grammys' nominee list, which made the rounds in the music industry today. Metallica is up for "Best Metal Performance," "Best Rock Instrumental Performance," and "Best Rock Album," (all related to Death Magnetic). Young got ... More >>

Neil Young to Release Sugar Mountain Live From the Vaults

Metallica, Neil Young, and Keyshia Cole were among the Bay Area acts on the Grammys' nominee list, which made the rounds in the music industry today. Metallica is up for "Best Metal Performance," "Best Rock Instrumental Performance," and "Best Rock Album," (all related to Death Magnetic). Young got ... More >>

1960s Folk Rock Screening at Page St. Library

Metallica, Neil Young, and Keyshia Cole were among the Bay Area acts on the Grammys' nominee list, which made the rounds in the music industry today. Metallica is up for "Best Metal Performance," "Best Rock Instrumental Performance," and "Best Rock Album," (all related to Death Magnetic). Young got ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: Moondoogies

Metallica, Neil Young, and Keyshia Cole were among the Bay Area acts on the Grammys' nominee list, which made the rounds in the music industry today. Metallica is up for "Best Metal Performance," "Best Rock Instrumental Performance," and "Best Rock Album," (all related to Death Magnetic). Young got ... More >>

Free association economy

Metallica, Neil Young, and Keyshia Cole were among the Bay Area acts on the Grammys' nominee list, which made the rounds in the music industry today. Metallica is up for "Best Metal Performance," "Best Rock Instrumental Performance," and "Best Rock Album," (all related to Death Magnetic). Young got ... More >>

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Rhetoric

Metallica, Neil Young, and Keyshia Cole were among the Bay Area acts on the Grammys' nominee list, which made the rounds in the music industry today. Metallica is up for "Best Metal Performance," "Best Rock Instrumental Performance," and "Best Rock Album," (all related to Death Magnetic). Young got ... More >>

CSNY: Déjà Vu

Metallica, Neil Young, and Keyshia Cole were among the Bay Area acts on the Grammys' nominee list, which made the rounds in the music industry today. Metallica is up for "Best Metal Performance," "Best Rock Instrumental Performance," and "Best Rock Album," (all related to Death Magnetic). Young got ... More >>

Neil Young Premieres Anti-War Movie in SF

Metallica, Neil Young, and Keyshia Cole were among the Bay Area acts on the Grammys' nominee list, which made the rounds in the music industry today. Metallica is up for "Best Metal Performance," "Best Rock Instrumental Performance," and "Best Rock Album," (all related to Death Magnetic). Young got ... More >>

Neil Young, Chrome Dreams II

Metallica, Neil Young, and Keyshia Cole were among the Bay Area acts on the Grammys' nominee list, which made the rounds in the music industry today. Metallica is up for "Best Metal Performance," "Best Rock Instrumental Performance," and "Best Rock Album," (all related to Death Magnetic). Young got ... More >>

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Live at the Fillmore East 1970 (Reprise)

Midlake

The Trials of Van Occupanther

California Sunshine

The golden state of Skygreen Leopards' cosmic roots-pop

Bring in the Trash

The golden state of Skygreen Leopards' cosmic roots-pop

Welcome to Greendale

Neil Young steps behind the camera

Acetone

York Blvd. (Vapor)

Neil Young

Silver and Gold

Recordings

Silver and Gold

Reel World

Silver and Gold