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Neil Young and Crazy Horse aren't done releasing new music in 2012 just yet: On October 30th, the group will release their second full-length of 2012, following this spring's Americana covers set with a double album titled  Psychedelic Pill . A few of the record's 8 tracks were previewed live on tour this year (such as "Twisted Road" ), and a scan through the tracklist below reveals Young & Crazy Horse have kept their extended, jam-heavy takes intact - a welcome update for fellow fans of Weld and [...]

"From Hank to Hendrix" to now Dylan and the Dead, Neil Young can pay a fine homage to his forebears and contemporaries. His latest tune, "Twisted Road," feels like a second chapter to said Harvest Moon cut, in which he recounts hearing the poetic lyrics of "Like A Rolling Stone" roll off Dylan's tongue "like Hank Williams chewing bubblegum." On the former, Young asks, "Can we make it last like a musical ride?" But this time finds him with the Grateful Dead on the car radio, headed home to "let the good times roll." It's a nostalgic [...]

The opening cut off Neil Young and Crazy Horse's first record together in nearly a decade, Americana , just arrived in official form. Between January's 40-minute "Cortez the Killer" jam session and the description of a children's choir accompaniment on a pair of tracks, we weren't quite sure what to expect from these guys after all these years. As it turns out, though, their take on Stephen Foster's 19th century folk tune combines both of those teasers in the exact way you might imagine. Jason at Speakers in Code wasn't kidding last week [...]

Neil Young's influence on Radiohead is widely known, given that they've mined the folk-rock icon's catalog for covers more than any other artist in their 27-year history. And aside from many mentions of R.E.M., Thom Yorke hasn't spoken out much about the records that have had the greatest impact on his work over the years. In a 2008 interview with the BBC's Mark Cooper, however, Yorke sat down to discuss only Young for over 30 minutes, ruminating on his uninhibited approach to songwriting, his favorite LPs, meeting the man himself before a 2002 performance for the Bridge School [...]

"I'm finding that I have a little bit of trouble with the quality of the sound of music today," Neil Young told MTV in January. "I don't like it. It just makes me angry. Not the quality of the music, but we're in the 21st century and we have the worst sound that we've ever had." While Young's frustration with digitally compressed audio formats is nothing new (his own archival box set series boasts 24-bit /192 kHz stereo sound in its Blu-ray format), the death of Steve jobs this year marks a continuation of his effort [...]

The first of a pair of forthcoming LPs from Neil Young and the reformed Crazy Horse lineup was revealed tonight in the form of a folk covers collection dubbed simply Americana , due out on June 5th. Don't assume its "songs we all know from kindergarten" description or children's choir accompaniment mean Neil, Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina, and Frank "Poncho" Sampedro have re-imagined their legendary rock show for kids, however. Per the press release (via Rolling Stone ), there's political and cultural relevance to the set below the surface: [...]

Now that Record Store Day is just under two months away, the list of limited-run discs to hit shelves worldwide and become sold-out mere hours later come April 21 has begun to surface. As with last year's event, Wax Poetic has an early scoop on what's to come with a list of vinyl 73, 103, 123, LPs, and compilations aiming for release. Here are the most intriguing items to catch my eye, which in most cases happen to be related to recent stories. Ryan Adams: "Heartbreak a Stranger" b/w "Black Sheets Of Rain" [...]