Neil Young

Top Five Anti-War Songs Ten Years After Iraq

Ten years ago, 'Shock and Awe' airstrikes by U.S. forces in Iraq marked the onset of another invasion of that country. President George W. Bush led a so-called 'coalition of the willing' mocked by anti-war activists as a 'coalition of the shilling' into hostilities under the pretext that Iraqi dicta ... More >>

Neil Young and Crazy Horse at 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 threatening, and thoroughly aged. Not old as in frail, but vene ... More >>

Jonathan Demme Gets His Emotion On With 'Neil Young Journeys'

Even a man needs a hanky for his take on 'Ohio'

More Ragged Glories: Neil Young and Jonathan Demme Discuss Their Third Concert Film

Today's Weekly features a chat with director Jonathan Demme about his third music documentary on rock god Neil Young.Jonathan Demme Gets His Emotion On with Neil Young JourneysBut Village Voice Media's Aaron Hillis doubled down, interviewing Demme and Young together, after they took a stroll through ... More >>

AWOLNATION on Record Store Day at Coachella, and Their First Albums

Is it musical overload to celebrate National Record Store Day at Coachella? Pop up store Zia Records (located on the festival premises) proved it is not. Although the store drew many bands on the festival lineup for special signings, Record Store Day drew even bigger crowds than usual, with attendee ... More >>

Built to Spill

The Glass House

Infantree

Fingerprints

Los Abandoned to Reunite for One Night Only!

​Call them Los Disbanded no more! Lady P, Don Verde, Vira Lata, and Dulce will reunite as Los Abandoned for a special one-time only concert at the Echoplex. It will mark the first time the Los Angeles-based Latin Alternative band has taken the stage since their farewell performance at the Tar Fest ... More >>

Five Ill-Advised Rock Reunions Aside from Meatloaf's

​ Buffalo Springfield, the 1960s band known for briefly employing Neil Young and Stephen Stills, announced a six-date reunion tour this summer and an appearance at the Bonnaroo festival. Since half of Buffalo Springfield's original members are dead, the tour is less an actual reunion than a pl ... More >>

Yo La Tengo at Detroit Bar Last Night

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​​Yo La TengoFebruary 24, 2011Detroit BarIt was the most soothing of times, it was the most startling of times--it was the tale of two dramatically different sets. It was a night of answers, it was a night of variety, it was a packed-house show at Detroit Bar; it wa ... More >>

Crosby and Nash Heading to Long Beach on March 25

​Singer/songwriters David Crosby and Graham Nash will launch a spring tour in the U.S., including a stop at Long Beach's Terrace Theater on March 25 at 8 p.m. They will be accompanied by a backing band comprised of James Raymond (keyboards), Dean Parks (guitar), Kevin McCormick (bass) and Steve Di ... More >>

Shout Out Louds Co-Headline With Minus The Bear at Fox Theater

Danielle Bacher​The Hype: Sweden's Shout Out Louds decided to take a break after the release of their second album, Our Ill Wills, and its attendant world tour. Now, however, the five members--frontman Adam Olenius, bassist Ted Malmos, guitarist Carl Von Arbin, drummer Eric Edman and keyboardist B ... More >>

Sound Spectrum's Top 10-Selling Records From the Past Week

​Here's what's flying off the shelves at the quirky-retro-cool Sound Spectrum in Laguna Beach.

Lady Gaga Wants You to Wear Her Condoms, Billy Corgan Delivers Covers Set, EMI Carry That Weight of Abbey Road, Johnny Cash's 'Bitter Tears'

NSFW: Lady Gaga wants you to wrap it up with designer condom--studded, ribbed, or sheer--to help Planned Parenthood. Wonder which one she prefers to wear? Bootleg worth hearing: Billy Corgan covers Velvet Underground, Neil Young, the Beatles and Donovan at recent Chicago-area benefit show.EMI ca ... More >>

Neil Young to Perform "Fuckin' Up" on Conan O'Brien's "Tonight Show" Finale? He Should!

​This evening Conan O'Brien fans will have one last chance to catch the funny man with the towering hairdo host the Tonight Show. Sure, O'Brien will likely resurface somewhere--the safe bet is Fox--shortly, and with a 45 million exit deal, he won't exactly be standing in the unemployment line in ... More >>

Last Night: Alberta Cross, Detroit Bar, Costa Mesa

The Hype: Drawing comparisons to such rock luminaries as Neil Young and the Band, relative newcomers Alberta Cross have been touring in support of their first full-length album, The Broken Side of Time. Signed to ATO records (founded by Dave Matthews), it's obvious that these guys have done somethi ... More >>

Alberta Cross

Detroit Bar

"The Drummer" and "The Young Victoria" Square Off in Competing Screenings

"The Drummer." Kick ass!​Two foreign films that received OK notices roll tonight as the film societies of Orange County and Laguna Beach present competing screenings. Laguna Beach Film Society shows 2007's The Drummer, a Hong Kong by way of Taiwan production that features Jackie Chan's son Jaycee ... More >>

[CD Review] Cub Country, 'Stretch That Skull Cover and Smile' (Future Farmer)

TONIGHT: The Victorians and Ribbons at The Prospector

​The Prospector in Long Beach is about to get a little bit classier tonight. Victorians and ribbons, oh my! Okay so maybe Long Beach band The Victorians don't exactly sound anything like their prim and proper name would suggest, but the sound is pretty polished. This local four piece founded by Br ... More >>

[Summer Guide] Notable Music Releases for Those Who Still Buy Albums

Scott Sechman To Rock Renaissance Bistro Friday and Saturday

Live music when dining can leave you cold or, worse, embarrassed (think maudlin violin players and shuffling trios of Christmas carolers).But if you enjoy the smooth sounds of 60s and 70s guitar classics, combined with a smoky voice, head down to Renaissance Bistro in Brea this Friday or Saturday ni ... More >>

Everest See the Mountaintop

Top 10 Americana Albums of 2008

Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantasti ... More >>

LowBallVideoChatter: The Band, "Don't Do It"

The Time: Thanksgiving, 1976.   The Place: Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco.   The Occasion: The final concert by the original lineup of the Band, with a jaw-dropping number of guests (Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Dr. John, ... More >>

Neil Young thinks I'm an asshole, and he totally quoted me out of context, too!

Colleague Matt Coker recently tipped me off to a cameo appearance I kinda-sorta make in Deja Vu, the new documentary flick about Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 2006 Freedom of Speech tour of America, when the foursome hit the road in support of Neil Young's politically pointed Living With War album. ... More >>

"This Ugly, Black Thing": The 26th Reason Why John McCain Sucks

In the new issue of the Weekly, you'll find Greg Stacy's list of 25 reasons why John McCain sucks. To this, I'd like to add reason #26: He once referred to Bridget, his adopted Bangladeshi daughter, as "this ugly, black thing." Maybe. Or probably? You be the judge, and read this first-person story ... More >>

[Aural Reports] Cory Case Busks Across Europe, Tours America With the Shys

It's a Hit

Jonathan Rice

"Vinyl May Be Final Nail in CD's Coffin”

Oh, sweet, sweet irony. Remember in the mid-'80s when major labels crowed about how the advent of compact discs would hasten the death of vinyl? A quarter century later, it looks like the (turn)tables are reversed: vinyl's popularity is resurgent while the CD's fortunes are looking as bleak as Ira ... More >>

CD Review

Band of Horses, Cease to Begin (Sub Pop)

CD Review

Neil Young, Live At Massey Hall (Reprise/WEA)

Ah Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

FEB. 8-FEB. 15

Burning Down the House

The folk-tinged chaos of Wires on Fire

Sing A Sad Song

A couple of weeks ago, I walked into the office and caught Steve belting out the chorus of "Love Will Tear Us Apart." As surreal and surprisingly awesome as it was, you astute readers out there will know that it was simply practice for his piece "Emotional Rescue," in which he explains why when we'r ... More >>

Hits!

Fingerprints

Hits!

SecondSpin

CD Review

Eleventh Dream Day, Zeroes and Ones (Thrill Jockey)

New Reviews

Date Movie; Eight Below; Freedomland; The Second Chance; Tamara

Long May He Run

Not-so-young Neil confronts death with elegiac hymns to family, friendship and love

Non-Fortunate Son:

John Fogerty should be bigger than Neil Young

Another Great Band Bites It

Anarchy in the C.M.

Mike McHugh's Top 5

The Distillery, Costa Mesa

For the Love of Dewey

Old Man, Take a Look at Yourself

CSN&Y: The new radicalsonly old!

New Music

Pot (Hed)

Val Garay, Laguna Beach-Based Superproducer

What's humming through the skulls of Orange County?

Grandaddy at This Ain't No Picnic

Big-Ass Music Weekend!