There's a disease spreading through our generation of 20- and 30-year-olds. We inherited this malady from our parents, and it's rendering us culturally stagnant. It's sapping our identity. Perhaps most tragically, we are welcoming this plague into our homes, cars, and phones -- even into our kar ... More >>
Neil Young Hollywood Bowl 10/17/12 Any number of incarnations of Neil Young & Crazy Horse could have shown up to play the Hollywood Bowl last night. They might have done the rock-soaked musical folklore of their most recent LP Americana or the slightly-campy concept rock opera that was 2003's Green ... More >>
Monday, October 15 Joyce Manor CENTER FOR THE ARTS, EAGLE ROCK South Bay punk-pop band Joyce Manor have gone from house parties to festival shows pretty damn quick, but what can you do? They have charisma, hooks, the decorum you need to keep going even when your fans get obsessive, and of course th ... More >>
Monday, October 15 Joyce Manor CENTER FOR THE ARTS, EAGLE ROCK South Bay punk-pop band Joyce Manor have gone from house parties to festival shows pretty damn quick, but what can you do? They have charisma, hooks, the decorum you need to keep going even when your fans get obsessive, and of course th ... More >>
While he's putting everything into a solo, Neil Young's face looks like his electric guitar sounds: flush with feeling, vaguely threatening, and thoroughly aged. Not old as in frail, but venerable; geologic. On the chilly, windy opening night of San Francisco's Outside Lands festival, Young the lege ... More >>
By Aaron Hillis Not to knock films as fantastic as his Rachel Getting Married, The Silence of the Lambs, and Something Wild, but there's something wilder--or at least, more directly stimulating and pure--about Jonathan Demme's live-performance docs. The 68-year-old auteur immortalized a Talking H ... More >>
He's a cartoon in clogs, a hedonist of legendary proportions, and one of the very few food-related mega-celebrities we'd want to actually meet. As Bill Buford detailed in Heat, he plays Neil Young air guitar and likes to turn up a dinner party by delicately dosing guests' tongues with folds of lard ... More >>
Seven months ago, we wrote about Hot Knives and the duo's scientific approach to pairing music and beer. The two local chloggers (chefs bloggers) stuck to craft beers, which prompted Jonathan Gold to chime in with a comment: "I like craft beers and handmade bitters as much as the next guy, ... More >>
Falling JamesA few years ago, the notoriously forward-looking Neil Young was in a curiously sentimental mood, waxing nostalgic on his solo tune "Buffalo Springfield Again": "Used to play in a rock & roll band/But they broke up ... I'd like to see those guys again/and give it a shot/Maybe now ... More >>
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Remember Clinton and the sax? Monarchs, political authority figures, and presidents have been inspiring pissed-off punk rock anthems or passionate, pleased glorification--whether subtle or direct--since human beings could pick up an instrument and pluck or pound out a feeling. And given our ... More >>
Billy W. Chernoff, billychernoff.comBen Keith in 1969 at Nashville's Music City RecordersBen Keith, the respected Nashville multi-instrumentalist whose distinctive and evocatively lonely steel-guitar adornments provided an inescapably haunting accompaniment to many of Neil Young's biggest hit ... More >>
[Neil Young has been exploring the possibilities of multi-media work for decades now. So it wasn't much of a surprise when his 2003 concept album Greendale, a narrative falling somewhere between heavy social commentary and mystical fable, reemerged a year later as a feature film. Now Young's ... More >>
[Neil Young has been exploring the possibilities of multi-media work for decades now. So it wasn't much of a surprise when his 2003 concept album Greendale, a narrative falling somewhere between heavy social commentary and mystical fable, reemerged a year later as a feature film. Now Young's ... More >>
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In celebration of the holiday spirit of sharing, we've got two shining visual examples of how to do just that below, each of which offers up an indie world collaboration of cream-in-your-jeans proportions. First up is the latest entry in Beck's ongoing Record Club -- a full-album covers series that ... More >>
Our critics' picks - and pans - from this year's free festival lineup
Kanye West interrupts Taylor Swift, continuing a long tradition of unspontaneous VMA quackery. Back in the day, VMA's didn't suck, here's evidence.
And it's a masterpiece
The box, which its designer described as "a piece of furniture." Longtime LA record man Bill Bentley says he first saw a listing for the Neil Young Archives project when he was working at Warner Brothers in the late 1980s. The release was supposed to be a follow-up to Young's classic collection Dec ... More >>
Among the songs coming out on the centuries-in-the-making Neil Young Archives 1963-1972 box set that's coming out at the beginning of June are three entire discs of material the songwriter created during his incredibly fruitful period in the late 1960s and early 11970s. Writer Jimmy McDonough, in ... More >>
Also, Faun Fables, Chris Darrow tribute, Allen Toussaint and others
(Michel Gondry's video for the Chemical Brothers' "Let Forever Be.") Here's a list of "confirmed" (so far) acts to appear at Coachella 2009, according to the very reliable Monklish blog. His guarantee: "I've been told that these have been making arrangements to attend the festival as contractuall ... More >>
No, dummy, we made the Dexy's rumor up. But a few names are starting to trickle out re: Coachella 2009, which runs from April 17 to April 19. The Consequence of Sound blog has a pretty extensive rundown of confirmations it has gathered from culling MySpace pages and band tour dates, and a decent ... More >>
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Also, Kaki King, The Notwist and more
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In an age when certified rock stars are a dying breed, a Kentucky band stakes its claim
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Quick: name that band. Who is it, the latest art damaged country punks to stagger out of Joshua Tree? Some long lost side project of J.D. Souther, Jackson Browne and Neil Young? The Devendra Banhart fan club? Any way you look at 'em, their beards are impressive: it takes a long time, and a total dis ... More >>
The music and mythology of Laurel Canyon
The music and mythology of Laurel Canyon
The music and mythology of Laurel Canyon
Sunday, February 12
alaska!’s Imaad Wasif talks about near-death touring experiences, the pros and cons of tomahawks, and what it doesn’t mean to be skinny.
alaska!’s Imaad Wasif talks about near-death touring experiences, the pros and cons of tomahawks, and what it doesn’t mean to be skinny.
alaska!’s Imaad Wasif talks about near-death touring experiences, the pros and cons of tomahawks, and what it doesn’t mean to be skinny.
alaska!’s Imaad Wasif talks about near-death touring experiences, the pros and cons of tomahawks, and what it doesn’t mean to be skinny.
Why what was old and lost and a bit odd is young and new — and exciting — again
Deep listening with DJ Shadow
Neil Young and Loren Connors rock & roll over
Songs for Camden Joy
Songs for Camden Joy
A stone by any other name
A year in music
Neil Young’s biographer goes to court
Neil Young, beyond the fringe and back again
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