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,…

The singular career of folksinger David Crosby is, by and large, defined by his hippie coterie. Coming up and partying with many of the biggest names in the West Coast folk scene—such as Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Grace Slick, and Jerry Garcia, to name a few—Crosby seemed to belong.…

Neil Young, “Archives Volume II.” In the first half of the 1970s, Neil Young—like a number of rock stars of his generation—battled to stay relevant as industry demands attempted to direct his creativity. After a pair of commercially successful albums, he struggled to get one released as the now-classic Tonight’s…

Neil Young & Crazy Horse, “Return To Greendale.” Fans of classic rock and folk music can’t accuse Neil Young of taking it easy in the latter half of his prolific career. In addition to continuing to release new music at a regular pace, Young collects live and rare tracks…

Source: Twitter.com/TrumpDraws. In case you’ve been living in a cave, outside all radio and cell reception, or watching Fox News: For the third time in American history there’s an impeachment trial happening in the Senate. The problem, as with most things, is that it doesn’t come with a soundtrack.…

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…