By Michelangelo Matos, eMusic Contributor[To celebrate the release of his 11th studio album, Innocents, we invited Moby to take control of eMusic's editorial for a week. You can read our exclusive interview with him here. Moby asked us to… more »
By Dave Sumner, eMusic ContributorDespite popular belief, jazz and pop music aren't at odds. In the past — and still to this day — jazz musicians have been both contributing to and tackling compositions from the Great American Songbook:… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorNot one to take his duties as Record Store Day Ambassador lightly, Jack White cut a Loretta Lynn cover (the title track of her classic Coal Miner's Daughter album) at Third Man's new recording booth… more »
By Wayne Robins, eMusic ContributorOn which Neil Young & Crazy Horse get on their ponies and ride…and ride… and keep on riding, as three of the eight new songs on Psychedelic Pill just go on, like the road, forever.… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorFor years, Warner Brothers Records has been home to musicians who want to pursue a particular artistic vision. The albums in this collection may cover a multitude of genres, but they all have one thing… more »
By Regan Hofmann, Audiobooks EditorHave you ever wished your grandfather told cooler stories? Like, say, about driving his band across the Canadian prairies in an ancient hearse named Mortimer, or the time David Crosby fell asleep on his recording… more »
Neil Young
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorI'm not sure what's more surprising: the fact that Neil Young just premiered an actual music video for his first Crazy Horse record in forever, or his decision to join Twitter. (First Tweet: "Look forward… more »
By Jason Diamond, eMusic ContributorApparently rust never sleeps and Neil Young never stops touring. The 66-year-old Young is hitting the road once again this autumn, and according to NME, Patti Smith is rumored to be opening. Considering Smith is interviewing… more »
By Jayson Greene, Managing EditorOkay, so Neil Young and Crazy Horse are putting out a new record together. You read that right, even the "& Crazy Horse" bit. Young hasn't been with this back-up band – one of rock… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorWhen Pearl Jam finally compiled a catalog-skimming greatest hits collection in 2004 - a decade after the demise of Nirvana, six years after they stole Soundgarden's drummer and nearly 15 into their platinum-lined career -… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorIt's one of popular music's stranger mysteries that often the author of a song isn't the person best suited to deliver it. The caliber of the writer isn't the issue: One only needed to watch… more »
By Jayson Greene, Managing EditorOkay, so remember Trans? If you know anything about it, you probably know the backstory — legendarily weird 1982 all-vocoder experiment, produced in homage to Kraftwerk; resulted in Geffen Records suing Young for producing "deliberately… more »
By Lenny Kaye, eMusic ContributorRobert Charles Guidry was leaving a diner in his native Louisiana when he heard the words that would forever make him Bobby Charles. "See you later, alligator," the 17-year-old jive-talked to a friend, only to… more »
By Yancey Strickler, eMusic ContributorFrom plaintive folk ballads to raging rockers, Neil Young carved out a path up the center of popular music that was both singular and idiosyncratic. This is our guide to his best. more »
By Yancey Strickler, eMusic ContributorBizarrely out of print for years (I paid $60 for a CD bootleg of it in the '90s — it was the only way to hear the thing), On the Beach is both one of… more »
By Yancey Strickler, eMusic ContributorNeil Young, a guitar, and a live audience. That's what you're getting with Live at Massey Hall, a long-traded bootleg recently released as part of the Neil Young Archives set. The set selection is stellar:… more »
By Yancey Strickler, eMusic ContributorHarvest is famously Neil Young's only #1 album, with "Heart of Gold" his only #1 single. And in this case, the public was right. Young has better moments than Harvest, but none of them are… more »
By Yancey Strickler, eMusic ContributorThis record is idiotic fun. A 1995 collaboration with Pearl Jam — at the time the biggest band in the world — it effortlessly captures all the worst aspects of grunge: the macho pounding, the… more »
By Yancey Strickler, eMusic ContributorThough it had some success upon initial release, Zuma is probably Neil Young's most-overlooked record today. It perfectly balances the vestiges of Young's folk period (still appearing in live form) with the heavier rock phase… more »
By Yancey Strickler, eMusic Contributor"I'm sorry. You don't know these people. This means nothing to you." Neil Young included those words in the liner notes to Tonight's the Night, an album about the drug overdoses of Crazy Horse guitarist… more »
By Yancey Strickler, eMusic ContributorHe's always felt conflicted about it, but Neil Young makes for a hell of a good rocker. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is his one prime-era full-on rock album. Opening with "Cinnamon Girl," as good… more »
By Yancey Strickler, eMusic ContributorThe spirit of the debut album has changed enormously over the past 40 years. Now we expect a fully-formed creative mission statement on Day 1 — anything less must be dismissed — whereas in the… more »
By Yancey Strickler, eMusic ContributorNeil Young made it through the '80s, but barely. There were the debacles that were Trans, Everybody's Rockin', Old Ways and This Note's For You. Rock had moved past him, and he wavered on whether… more »
