Neil Young

Ten great albums recorded at Sound City Studios, the focus of Sound City

Dave Grohl is a busy guy. The Foo Fighters frontman is a member of multiple supergroups, played alongside Paul McCartney at the 12/12/12 Sandy Relief Concert, will be the keynote speaker at South by Southwest this March, and just made his directing debut with Sound City, a documentary tracing the hi ... More >>

The ten best music books of 2012

This year, ambitious new books tackled the lives of music legends from Neil Young to Pete Townshend -- and many of these 2012 releases managed to burst through genres to offer significantly more than the average biography. We at Backbeat explored memoirs, historical surveys, ruminations on philosoph ... More >>

Boedecker Theater brings classic-rock rarities to the big screen

The names you'll recognize -- the Doors, Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, the Rolling Stones -- and the titles of Boedecker Theater's upcoming film series will be a treat for classic-rock fans who have already devoured big-budget docs like When You're Strange or last month's Crossfire Hurricane. "Both the ... More >>

Neil Young and Crazy Horse at Outside Lands Festival, 8/10/12

NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE @ OUTSIDE LANDS FESTIVAL | 8/10/12 The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. While he's putting everything into a solo, Neil Young's face looks like his electric guitar sounds: flush with feeling, vaguely th ... More >>

Alabama Shakes

Friday, August 10, Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303-443-3399.

The 20 sweetest Neil Young T-shirts we saw Sunday at Red Rocks

It's debatable as to whether it's proper etiquette to wear a t-shirt of the band you're going to see, but we're giving these Neil Young fans a pass because their shirts are just too damn awesome. Neil Young & Crazy Horse played at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on August 5, 2012, and Eric Gruneisen brought ... More >>

Weekend's best live music bets: My Morning Jacket, Band of Horses, Neil Young and more

See Also: - Q&A with Jim James of My Morning Jacket - Profile: Joy Subtraction, 8/2/12 - Q&A with Angry Hand of God Welcome to the weekend! Aren't you glad you hung in there? Your hard work grinding it out this week is about to rewarded handsomely by a pair of back-to-back shows from My Morning Jac ... More >>

The absorbing Neil Young Journeys is another Jonathan Demme triumph

Jewel: "I've never held back because I'm a woman. I feel like I can accomplish anything a man can accomplish in my field.""

Since having her son, Kase Townes Murray, last summer, Jewel might have taken time off the road, but she's still busy at home with a number of things, including working on a new Christmas album. Her free solo acoustic show this Saturday night at the Colorado Convention Centeras part of the Women's ... More >>

Neil Young's Harvest turns forty

The year 1972 saw the death of the hippies -- or, at the very least, the decline of the movement from idealistic young go-getters playing with the fire of radical social change to an out-of-control inferno of hard drugs and failed dreams. Neil Young's Harvest wasn't the first to comment on these dar ... More >>

Canada Day: Top 5 reasons to blame Canada -- and thank Canada

​Until 1 p.m. today, the Canadian consulate is hosting Canada Day festivities on the 16th Street Mall between Cleveland and Court streets. Which got us to thinking: What is most worth celebrating about Canada? And what deserves a special musical attack from the South Park boys? These probing q ... More >>

Air Dubai, the Heyday, Bad Religion, Superchunk, Waka Flocka Flame top sellers

​On the heels of their dual CD release party a few weeks ago at the Gothic, Air Dubai and the Heyday claimed the top spots at Twist & Shout for the week ending October 10. Up at Album's On the Hill, meanwhile, Bad Religion topped the charts with its latest Dissent of Man, Superchunk's latest e ... More >>

Neil Young, Deerhunter, Blonde Redhead, Ice Cube top sellers at local stores

​Le Noise, Neil Young's collaboration with producer Daniel Lanois, released last week on Reprise, claimed the top spot at Twist & Shout, checked in at number three at Albums on the Hill and rounded out the top ten at Wax Trax for the week ending October 3. Deerhunter's Halcyon Digest, meanwhil ... More >>

$16 million to recover $391,000: The RIAA just blew a lot cash. Here's ten more of the industry's greatest wastes

[via Flickr]​Last week, it was revealed the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) spent $16 million to recover $391,000 from lawsuits involving peer-to-peer file sharing. No, we didn't print that backwards; you don't need to adjust your screen -- they really did waste that much mone ... More >>

Ozzy Osbourne and ten other old dudes who should just hang it up already

Like so many new albums from old dudes, it's not that Ozzy Osbourne's Scream, which was released today, is not good, per se -- it's that it's not needed. While Osbourne's new effort updates his shtick a bit -- it sounds like he's been listening to a long of Norwegian opera-metal and possibly some ... More >>

Jonathan Demme finds gold in new Neil Young concert film

Photo by Larry Cragg ​While there is no doubt that Neil Young is multifaceted, two distinct personas emerge when he performs live. During his acoustic ballads, there's a fragility and just a hint of crackle in his voice. And on the rockers, he is a performer of ferociousness and raw power.

Watch Surveillance video of Jim Jarmusch, Bradley Cox and Randy Randall tackling Neil Young

Okay, now this is just rad. If you haven't seen this already, here's what you're in for: Jim Jarmusch -- the man responsible for such fine moments in American cinema as Mystery Train, Night On Earth and Dead Man -- accompanying Bradford Cox, that lanky weirdo from Deerhunter and Atlas Sound, and R ... More >>

Neil Young Top Seller at Wax Trax

​Neil Young's Dreamin' Man Live '92, which includes a complete live performance of Harvest Moon before the studio album was released, grabbed the top spot at Wax Trax this week, while Mars Volta's Omar Rodriguez-Lopez claimed the second slot with his latest effort, Xenophanes. Tom Waits, meanwhile ... More >>

Which Canadian artists caused Northwest pilots to zone out for half a continent?

"I'm in the mood for a little Canuck rock. How 'bout you?"​Back in October, the pilots of a Northwest Airlines flight lost radio contact over Denver, and didn't get back in touch until they'd overshot their destination, Minneapolis, by 150 miles. Shortly thereafter, reports surfaced that the j ... More >>

A quick look at albums due out this summer

Spoke Shaver at the Larimer Lounge

Neil Young kicks the year off with a hilarious new single

Neil Young ended 2008 with a bang by performing a marathon two-and-a-half-hour-long set at Madison Square Garden that was not only chock-full of classics but also included a handful of new tracks that Young wrote during his quest to turn one of his antique cars into a viable alternative-fuel vehicle ... More >>

Derek Trucks Band tops Twist & Shout's top sellers list

The Derek Trucks Band's Already Free, released January 13, on RCA Victor, tops last week's top seller list at Twist & Shout, while Paper Bird's Anything Nameless and Joymaking comes in at number three again. The full breakdown is listed after the jump.

Top Sellers: Twist & Shout

Neil Young's live recording from 1968, when he was just 22, tops Twist & Shout's bestsellers list, with a strong showing from local acts Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story) and Paper Bird. Also good to see Tom Waits in the Top 10 with an album he released just over four years ago. The ... More >>

Q&A With Feist

Oblio Duo and the Archers

Nuclear War EP
Self-released

The Band Show

Denver bands make love, not war, at Stand By Your Band II.

Mini Reviews

Mini Reviews

CSNY

Thursday, July 20, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 303-830-8497.

Bring in the Trash

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Living With War (Reprise)

Make Believe

Friday, October 7, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

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Prairie Wind (Reprise)

Best Band to Shoot Whiskey To

Out on Bail

Best Jukebox

Gabor's

Widespread Panic

Über Cobra (Widespread Records)

Critic's Choice

My Morning Jacket

The Band

The Last Waltz (Warner Bros./Rhino)

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Are You Passionate? (Reprise)

Various Artists

@home@sunset, @home@sunrise (Moonshine)

Buffalo Springfield

Box Set (Atco/Elektra/Rhino)

A Better Build

Having traded indie-hero status for fatherhood, Built to Spill's Doug Martsch makes music when -- and where -- he wants to.

Best Musical Advertisements for a Local Venue

Road Rock V.1 and Red Rocks Live
Neil Young

Best Concert (since June 2000)

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Pickin' Up the Pieces

Richie Furay found something unexpected on his way to country-rock stardom: salvation.

Backwash

Big Mike returns to the local music biz.

A Sperm's Tale

How CSNY reproduced again.

Thrills for the week

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