Subject: Neil Young

• Get Lit: Being Young, by Astrid Young

  July 19, 2008

• Artist of the Week: Andrew Karnavas

  July 31, 2008

• Do Look Back

  The Band dances The Last Waltz, but can time heal old wounds?

  April 18, 2002

• Happy Birthday, Shakey

  November 12, 2008

• Classic Rock Corner: Neil Young's Sugar Mountain

  Neil Young Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968 Forget Chinese Democracy. The real will-he-ever-release-it story of this decade (and the last...and the last...) is Neil Young's Archives Vol. 1, 1963-72. The (so far) massive 10-DVD set will include music, video, photos and interactive media, but the famously perfectionist Young continues to tease with release dates, only to snatch them back. Shakey's latest postponement is reputedly due to tinkering with the Blu-Ray technolo

  December 8, 2008

• Top Ten 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 fantastic Furr smells more like the Kinks than Neil Young. [Editor's note: That's why we put it on our indie-rock list.] We likewise discarded Shearwater's near-masterpiece Rook, despite the fact that the album

  December 22, 2008

• Hiatt Regency

  December 9, 1993

• Live Shots

  October 27, 1994

• The Future of Rock and Roll

  June 15, 1995

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: A Sweet Piece of Art for Sweetheart

  My California compadre Charlie McGovern, who produces records by interesting people like Tony Gilkyson (Goodbye Guitar), Victoria Williams (Sings Some Ol' Songs), and Mike Stinson (Last Fool At the Bar), is also Salinas, California's biggest booster and amateur historian. It's all in a day's work for me to receive out-of-left-field emails from McGovern telling me he just visited Doc Ricketts' lab (the "Doc" in John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat) or some other mind-boggling piece of history associat

  January 21, 2009

• Rotations

  July 13, 1995

• Sound Check

  January 4, 1996

• Rotation

  August 22, 1996

• "Sweet Caroline," Complete With 10-Minute Guitar Solo

  Man, we're sorry we missed the Grammys last night.Check out the bit of news in this Associated Press story, via the Beaumont Enterprise: "Neil Young, honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year for his aid to Hurricane Ike victims on Oak Island in Galveston Bay, performed his hit 'Sweet Caroline.'"That is one performance we'd pay to see -- Neil Young, hopefully with Crazy Horse, doing a 12-minute version of "Sweet Caroline."On the other hand, the AP (and/or the Enterprise) could have simply conf

  February 9, 2009

• Rotation

  July 17, 1997

• This False Note's for You

  June 4, 1998

• Rotation

  December 24, 1998

• Album of the Week: Heartless Bastards' The Mountain

  Heartless Bastards The Mountain www.heartlessbastards.com Gnarlier than a century-old Live Oak, Heartless Bastards' The Mountain plugs the Cincinnati-born trio's scorching postmodern blues - their debut, 2006's All This Time, could skin a cat - into the eerie backwoods folk of Greil Marcus' semi-mythical "old, weird America." Opener "The Mountain" is an epic Neil Young & Crazy Horse earth-mover, with psychedelic pedal-steel flourishes that help singer Erika Wennerstrom (who has since

  March 12, 2009

• Classic Rock Corner: Nils Lofgren, Sideman, Sideburns and Solo

  Guy AcetoIt's certainly an accomplishment for any rock musician to have a long and fruitful career either solo or with a band. Then it's icing on the cake to be further associated with a genuine icon. But to have two icons in your story? Just an embarrassment of riches. In the case with singer/songwriter/guitarist Nils Lofgren, all three roads are converging at once. He's celebrating 25 years since joining Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band as a lead guitarist (their tour in s

  April 8, 2009

• Cross Canadian Ragweed

  Friday, February 1

  January 31, 2002

• Barnstorming Georgia Trio The Whigs

  Complete Control

  October 2, 2008

• How to Draw a Bunny

  This artist documentary isn’t only for art lovers

  August 14, 2008

• Buxton: A Family Light

  April 3, 2008

• The Stag's Head Pub's Coffee Shooter

  December 6, 2007

• How Classic Is Classic Rock?

  June 4, 2009

• Singin' a Carroll

  January 5, 2006

• Blitzen Trapper

  Quartet delivers classic Southern rock

  July 12, 2007

• Another Bump

  Ten of the best coke anthems, plus a shortlist for the Cocaine Hall of Fame

  July 5, 2007

• The Drones

  Gala Mill

  December 28, 2006

• Bring in the Trash

  June 15, 2006

• Eleventh Dream Day

  Zeroes & Ones

  June 1, 2006

• Rebel with a Cause

  Dimebag lives on in these new recordings

  June 1, 2006

• The Examined Life

  After a brush with death, Alejandro Escovedo cleans up, digs deep and resurfaces with a gem

  June 1, 2006

• Guitar-Shredding on the High Seas

  Built to Spill and the Decemberists offer alternate takes on alt-rock

  September 22, 2005

• Ultra Man

  Champa is the champ of our DJ competition at South Beach

  February 24, 2005

• Secret Machines

  Now Here Is Nowhere (Reprise)

  October 7, 2004

• Taj Mahal & the Hula Blues, with Susan Tedeschi

  Sunday, May 2

  April 29, 2004

• Heart of Gold

  Neil Young charts his Greendale via "a little love and affection"

  April 22, 2004

• Neil Young & Crazy Horse

  Greendale (Warner Bros.)

  November 20, 2003

• Still Young

  Neil Young and Crazy Horse ride into town with Lucinda Williams

  July 31, 2003

• Kings of Leon

  Holy Roller Novocaine (RCA Records)

  May 15, 2003

• Playbill

  The Butthole Surfers

  October 18, 2001

• Famous Potatoes

  Idaho's Built to Spill survives the indie-to-major metamorphosis with its street cred intact

  September 27, 2001

• Going Viral

  May 14, 2009

• Listening Room: Neil Young's Fork In the Road

  Neil Young Fork In the Road www.neilyoung.comYa gotta love Ol' Shakey. Even moreso than fellow cantankerous classic rocker Bob Dylan, he goes where his muse leads him, everyone else be damned. Acoustic rock? Heavy rock? Country? Blues? Rockabilly? Unintelligible vocoders and synthesizers? He's done them all - and even been sued by his record company for not sounding like himself. It's a good thing that Neil has full artistic control, too. Imagine the pitch session for his latest album: "I want t

  May 28, 2009

• Local Motion: Top Sellers at Cactus Music, Sound Exchange, Soundwaves, Sig's Lagoon and Vinal Edge

  Cactus Music 2110 Portsmouth, 713-526-9272 www.myspace.com/cactusmv1. Ryan Bingham, Roadhouse Sun 2. Dave Matthews Band, Big Whiskey & the Groo-Grux King 3. Steve Earle, Townes 4. Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest 5. Elvis Costello, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane 6. Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood, Live at Madison Square Garden 7. Neil Young, Archives vol. 1 8. Crosby, Stills & Nash, Demos 9. Bob Dylan, Together Through Life 10. The Flatlanders, Hills & Valleys Sound Exchange 1836 Richmond, 713-666-5555 www.

  June 11, 2009

• Slide Show: Albums That Went Darker

  ​ For most rock acts, the traditional way to deal with success is to rework their lyrics, image and sound to become palatable to a larger audience. Usually this means brightening the subject matter, cleaning up the bad words, softening the sharp edges on those power chords and getting haircuts that cost more than the previous album. This is a process commonly known as "selling out"; however, it doesn't always work that way. Sometimes, for whatever reason, the artist in question becomes angrier

  August 5, 2009

• Bonus MP3 of the Day: Whiskey Boat & the Supersuckers Do Neil Young's "Powderfinger"

  ​"Powderfinger" has always been one of Rocks Off's favorite Neil Young songs, up there with "Cowgirl In the Sand" and "Rockin' In the Free World." You know things are headed for trouble from the first line - "Look out mama, there's a white boat comin' up the river" - as a young man who just turned 22 tries valiantly but in vain to defend his home against that menacing vessel with a "big red beacon and a flag and a man on the rail." "Powderfinger" first appeared on Young's landmark 1979 live al

  August 14, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day Three: Spin the Black Circle

  Photos by Mark C. Austin​It only took one song in to Pearl Jam's Sunday night closing set at the Austin City Limits music festival for it to dawn on Rocks Off that for way too long this band has been forsaken by back-handed hipster discount and radio-influenced apathy. No band from the grunge-era is still honing their craft as well, and continues to thoughtfully subvert their own musical journey as much as Pearl Jam. Opening with "Why Go" from Ten, the band wasn't just firing on all cyli

  October 5, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Previewing Saturday's Conroe Cajun Catfish Festival

  ​Lonesome Onry and Mean has to hand it to those people in Conroe: they know how to book a cool festival lineup. In fact, the list of performers for the Go Texan! Wine & Food stage at Saturday's Conroe Cajun Catfish Festival is downright scary from the standpoint of cutting-edge, less-than-highly-visible quality Americana acts. Longtime LOM left-side-of-Nashville fave Phil Lee fires up at 2:45 p.m. Recently signed to Steady Boy Records, this wildman maverick - who counts Neil Young as one o

  October 9, 2009