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Neil Young awarded 2010 MusiCares person of the year

August 11, 2009

Neil Young, 63, was named 2010 MusiCares person of the year.
The legendary muso was honoured for his "standard of artistic integrity and iconoclastic creativity for more than four decades", said Neil Portnow, president of the MusiCares Foundation and The Recording Academy.
A dinner and concert will be held to pay tribute to Young in Los Angeles. Young's unforgettable hit songs include Heart Of Gold and Rockin' In The Free World.
MusiCares is an industry charity which last year named Neil Diamond as its person of the year and has also awarded soul legend Aretha Franklin in the past. Young's award marks the charity's 20th. .....

March 5, 2009

Reprise has set April 7 as the release date of Fork in the Road, a new Neil Young record that revolves around a central theme of electric cars. There isn't much in the way of details beyond that, but Young did have something to say about YouTube's inability to fairly compensate artists on his website. "YouTube has a responsibility to respect the artists .....

February 24, 2009

Glastonbury's promoters have announced the initial details behind this year's bill, including Bruce Springsteen's headlining slot on Saturday night and an appearance by Franz Ferdinand. At this point, Neil Young and a recently-reunited Blur are rumored to be the fest's other two headliners."I'm knocked out that we've managed to get Bruce to play," Emily .....

October 13, 2008

Archives Vol. 1 (1963-1972), Neil Young's long-delayed DVD collection, has been pushed back once again to sometime in 2009. An unrelated live record, Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968, is due out on November 25, however. The Reprise release includes material from a two-day stint in Ann Arbor, MI, one that includes some of his first solo .....

August 19, 2008

Neil Young has announced a fall North American tour that'll take him from St. Paul, MN, on October 14 to New York's Madison Square Garden on December 15. While Death Cab for Cutie and Everest will join the living legend until the November 5 stop in Omaha, Wilco will replace Death Cab from that point on. Except for Young's Chicago show, which will not .....

July 18, 2008

Crosby, Stills & Nash are working on their first album since 1994's After the Storm, a collection of covers helmed by Rick Rubin. According to an interview with Billboard.com, the band has held "many discussions" with the producer about the project, enough to cut 60 possible songs down to 20. The trio is currently working the kinks out in those selections .....

July 16, 2008

John Mellencamp has announced the initial details behind this year's Farm Aid concert. Set to hit the Comcast Center in Mansfield, MA, on September 20, the show will be co-headlined by Neil Young, Dave Matthews and Willie Nelson, with more acts to-be-confirmed soon. While some of the performers are the same as years past, this fall's show will be the .....

May 7, 2008

Neil Young confirmed the details behind his Blu-Ray collection at a Sun Microsystems Inc. press conference yesterday in San Francisco. The 10-disc set will come out this fall through Reprise/Warner Brothers and feature previously unreleased songs, videos, handwritten manuscripts, interactive menus, and more. As more content becomes available, fans will .....

April 3, 2008

While it doesn't have a set release date yet, Neil Young has green-lit the release of Toast, a Crazy Horse-backed disc he scrapped in 2000. According to Young's Web site, www.neilyoung.com, the record was worked on at a San Francisco studio for months, but the band "came up with very little" besides the sporadically-performed "Goin' Home." In fact, .....

September 11, 2007

Neil Young isn't getting any younger, but he's certainly getting more prolific. The songwriter returns with a new album titled Chrome Dreams II due out on October 16 and then embarks on a fall tour to promote it. This newest album comes only a year after Young's protest-heavy, political rant Living With War.As previously reported, the rocker is also .....