Neil Young and Promise of the Real perform at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 25, 2019. Shawn Robbins/STAFF. Neil Young will lead and perform at a concert benefiting Bridge School, but it won’t be at the once-popular annual benefit concert in the South Bay.…

Neil Young and Crazy Horse, “FU##IN’ UP.” There’s a moment on FU##IN’ UP, the new live album from Neil Young and Crazy Horse, when a snarling squall of distorted guitars subsides momentarily, ringing out like the golden rays of a brilliant sunset. Young’s voice – tender, fragile and now slightly…

Neil Young, “Before and After.” Neil Young has never been afraid to confound, for better or worse, and his latest project presents a novel way of presenting material that, to varying degrees, hasn’t been heard much, if at all, over the years. Before and After Neil Young Reprise, Dec.…

Neil Young, “Chrome Dreams.” Expressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh told his brother Theo to never let anyone see his paintings. Luckily for us, Theo didn’t listen. In 1977, Neil Young made the inexplicable decision to shelve an album of songs recorded between 1974 and 1977. Chrome Dreams Neil Young…

The best albums of 2022 include Neil Young, Harry Styles, Muse, Demi Lovato, Denzel Curry, Lights, Freddie Gibbs, Steve Lacy, Father John Misty and Danger Mouse and Black Thought. Welcome to the heart of our countdown of the best albums of 2022. Before continuing, check out parts one, two and three. Part…

Neil Young, “Harvest (50th Anniversary Edition).” Harvest, released in 1972, was the fourth solo album from Neil Young after the dissolution of Buffalo Springfield, with whom he made his name as the idiosyncratic guitar-playing genius. And though his solo career largely veered farther into non-commercial, even experimental territory from there,…

Neil Young with Crazy Horse, “World Record.” Neil Young isn’t looking to set any world records on his new album. Instead, this new collection of songs feels like a cross between a time capsule—or world record—of how we got ourselves into this big climate change mess, and a set…

Earth, Wind & Fire performs at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 25, 2018. Alessio Neri/STAFF. This week was, technically, the beginning of fall. I say “technically” because I don’t trust weather anymore, so I keep expecting it to spike back up to 115 degrees…

Pictured: Joe Rogan doing his own ornithology research. Not pictured: Spotify hoping we forget this ever happened. That Neil Young – and now Joni Mitchell – made such big news by yanking their music from Spotify because of the brain phlegm that it allows Joe Rogan to push, is…

Of course Barn, named after the place where Neil Young and Crazy Horse recorded it, sounds rough and unpolished. That in itself isn’t a bad thing—the old Canadian émigré and his all-time greatest backing band have made a virtue of winging it since Everybody Knows This is Nowhere. Indeed,…