Clockwise from top left: Altin Gun, K.Flay, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Lightning Bolt, Big Business, Boy Harsher, Carly Rae Jepsen, Battles, Tyler, the Creator, and American Football. We’re nearing the end of our countdown of the top 50 albums of 2019! A lot of these records would have…

The specter of aging looms over any rocker. Some age gracefully and lose significance. Others fail to grow out of youthful recklessness and find themselves in mid-career doldrums, leaving the rest to fade away as self-parodies. Neil Young continues his pondering on the significance of mortality with the same ethos…

Neil Young (& Promise of the Real) perform at BottleRock Napa Valley at the Napa Valley Expo on May 25, 2019. Photos: Shawn Robbins, staff and courtesy. NAPA — BottleRock Napa Valley’s Saturday headlining slots covered the generational and cultural spectrum. On one corner of the grounds, you’d find a…

Imagine Dragons perform at the Concord Pavilion in Concord on July 24, 2018. The band is one of six co-headliners at BottleRock Napa May 24 to 26. Photo: Kate Vides. NAPA — BottleRock Napa Valley producers today unveiled the lineup for the seventh incarnation of their annual wine country festival,…

It’s hard to believe, but somewhere, there is a huge vault of music that we don’t know about. In this vault are the good, the bad and the forgotten songs of the world’s greatest musicians. Every so often, one of those musicians digs deep into that vault and brings…

Photo: Paige K. Parsons Pegi and Neil Young have canceled the annual Bridge School Benefit concert in 2017—and possibly beyond, the Bridge School announced. The annual benefit show is a nonprofit charity event held every October at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. It celebrated its 30th anniversary last year. Neither Young nor…

In an album that focuses on the apprehensions of the future—apprehensions about robotics, politics and the Earth—all while preaching about honesty and peace, Neil Young manages to keep his countryman persona intact. Peace Trail, Young’s 37th studio album, is wrought with his famous sound of folk, rock, electric guitar…

Photos: Paige K. Parsons MOUNTAIN VIEW — Neil Young sat in with Metallica and My Morning Jacket served as Roger Waters’ backing band on the first day of the 30th annual Bridge School Benefit Saturday. Nine different artists performed at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. The benefit aids…

Metallica, Roger Waters, Dave Matthews and Willie Nelson were among the 10 artists announced Monday for this year’s installment of the annual Bridge School Benefit concert. The event, now in its 30th year, brings together popular musicians to benefit the Bridge School, a Hillsborough, Calif. facility serving children with…