Joni Mitchell and Neil Young return to Spotify

 

In 2022 Joni Mitchell left the streaming platform Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young's protest over it hosting anti-vax content. Now both artist's music is back on Spotify.

Why is that? Read more here!

60's recordings by Neil Young and Joni Mitchell discovered

The Michigan History Project has discovered a treasure of historic musical recordings made in Ann Arbor, Michigan during the late 1960s.
The reel-to-reel tapes include recorded performances by artists as Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Tim Buckley and others.

The non-profit organisation is now looking for a record label that would be interested in releasing the recordings.

Read more here.

Dylan, McCartney, Young, Waters, The Who and Rolling Stones go on a Desert Trip

Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Roger Waters and The Who all on one three day festival? Yes it will happen October 7-9 this year.

The place? Indio, California.

But what about ticket prices? we hear you ask. They should be astronomical with this kind of line up.
Well, general admission three day tickets start at 399 US dollars. To get reserved floor passes you have to cough up between 699 and 1 599. And then there's the grandstand passes at 1 599. As well as the cheap one day option general admission passes selling for 199. Plus fees.

More here: http://home.deserttrip.com

Happy 70th (+ 2 days), Neil!

Here's a perennial Radio Dupree favourite from Neil Young (Old?) who turned 70 two days ago! Hope that the cake was good. Here's a clip from 1971:

Box set from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

CSNY 1974 is the title of a new box from the 1974 tour.
It is available on Rhino/Warner as 3CD & 1DVD set and Pure Audio Blu-Ray (192kHz/24-bit) & 1DVD set plus Digital Download and a 1CD ‘selections’ edition.

The record companies are really bombarding us with all kinds of exclusive box releases this summer, huh? Jethro Tull's A Passion Play, Pink Floyd's The Division Bell, Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Centre of the Earth...

Click here to watch the trailer

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Buffalo Springfield going out on tour

They broke up in 1968, but are back on the road for a short June tour. Original members Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay plus Rick Rosas (bass) and Joe Vitale (drums).

Rolling Stone has more.

Neil Young "Angry World"

Neil Young + an electric guitar and a few songs. Plus producer Daniel Lanois. It all adds up to his new album Le Noise and here's one song:

Neil Young's Blue-ray Archives

What was Neil Young doing at at the JavaOne computer/technology conference in San Francisco last week?
He was there to unveil the latest move foward in his Archives series. And to casual Neil Young fans like ourselves the massive all-inclusive Archives retrospective has been talked about and in the making for at least 20, 25, maybe 30 years.

A couple of CD:s have been released and there's a special Archives section over at neilyoung.com.
But last weeks PR-thing/announcement that it would all be collected on Blue-ray discs and updated over the Internet gave Archives a larger and perhaps more tangible form.

You can see a video where Neil Young explain why he's doing Archives the way he's doing it and why he's waited until now.

Then there's a text-only interview here.

Right now the plan is for five boxes consisting of ten discs each! The first box will cover the years 1963 - 1972.