• Neil Young, Jerry Garcia, Ozzy Osbourne and Other Sing to Mother Earth on Her Birthday

    METoday is Earth Day and another big day is approaching as well—Mother's Day on May 10 (don't forget to call mom guys) so Music Times decided to bring both together and look up the music acts that have paid tribute to the most important mother of them all: Mother Earth. We've got performances from Grateful Dead affiliates, Neil Young and Ozzy Osbourne.
  • Steve Jobs Biography: Apple Co-Founder Reportedly Hated Neil Young, Google

    A new biography written about Steve Jobs reportedly shows the Apple co-founder in an unflattering light. According to The Daily Beast, friends like current Apple CEO Tim Cook and design guru Johnny Ive have praised the new biography, Becoming Steve Jobs. The new book delves deeper into the icon's famous anger, which Neil Young and Google were victims of at different points.
  • Bob Dylan Receives MusiCares Person of the Year Award

    A star-studded lineup showed up at the MusiCares Person of the Year ceremony Friday night, Feb. 6, to pay tribute to Bob Dylan. Bruce Springsteen, Beck and Jack White paid tribute by performing renditions of some of the folk legend's classic tunes before Dylan himself gave a speech filled with attitude. He thanked famous musicians who covered his songs in the past -- like Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash and Nina Simone -- while telling off critics like Lieber & Stoller and Merle Haggard. Unfortunately for fans, Dylan did not perform.
  • PonoMusic Rumored to Have Acquired Rights to Beatles Catalogue; 'Revolver' And More May Be On PonoPlayer Soon Enough

    Just last week Music Times came up with a short list of relatively recent albums that we'd like to see get the full hi-res treatment at Pono, assuming that our vinyl copies of older records would do for the time being. Apparently not however, as rumors suggest CEO Neil Young and the team at PonoMusic have gotten ahold of the rights to The Beatles catalogue and are working to remaster it in full 192 kHz. The new version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is "going to blow your mind," reportedly.
  • Neil Young Recording New Album with Willie Nelson's Sons [WATCH]

    Neil Young's new Pono music player debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas recently. The guitarist sat down with "Rolling Stone" to discuss the new service, which launched this week, but naturally the conversation covered other areas. He revealed that his next album will be a collaboration with Willie Nelson's sons Lukas and Micah. Young and the Nelson boys have performed together previously at the Harvest the Hope and Bridge School benefits as well as Farm Aid. "I'm working on another album now that I'm going to do be doing with Willie Nelson's sons," the singer said, adding that the record may have something to do with the Monsanto agriculture company — Young has been critical of the organization in the past. Past that album, Young does not have anything else lined up.
  • Kickstarter Funds More Music Projects Than Any Other Category during 2014; Neil Young and 'Meow The Jewels' Big Earners

    Kickstarter and crowd funding in general had their biggest year ever during 2014 and no subject matter was more popular on crowdfunding's most popular platform than music. More than 4,000 project were successfully backed on the site, more than any other category, including film & video, art and publishing. More than 18 percent of all Kickstarter campaigns finder during 2014 were tied to music.
  • Bradley Cooper Shreds Air Guitar on 'Down by the River' on 'The Tonight Show' [WATCH]

    Bradley Cooper is one of Hollywood's biggest stars. His upcoming film, "American Sniper," is creating some serious awards buzz while the reviews of his Broadway performance in "The Elephant Man" have been positive. It turns out that Cooper has a few other talents, though, including some serious chops as an air guitarist. During a recent visit to "The Tonight Show," the actor showed Jimmy Fallon and his audience how well he knows Neil Young's "Down by the River" on the air ax. Cooper made it clear that his musical talents are not widely known during his hilarious interview with Fallon. "I play an air guitar," he says in the clip below. "There's one song by Neil Young that I feel like, I don't know if everybody knows this, so I'm proud I know it. It's just the guitar solo of 'Down by the River.'" Cooper could not explain why he memorized that particular song, but it is obvious that he is a fan. While wearing a ridiculous wig — it is kind of a thing for the pair now — the actor stood up and plucked his invisible Gibson Les Paul, much to the delight of the host and viewers. Roots guitarist Kirk Douglas took over the duties before the show went to a commercial break.
  • 8 Albums With Misleading Titles

    Though an album title shouldn't tell you explicitly what kind of music you're in for (where's the fun in that?), a title does have a subtle influence over how we hear an album, or how we expect it to fit into the artist's career arc. These eight albums, however, went with titles that ended up being misleading for either one of these reasons.
  • Eddie Vedder: 7 Best Solo Tracks for the Pearl Jam Frontman's 50th Birthday [LISTEN]

    Eddie Vedder will forever be linked to one of America's greatest bands - Pearl Jam. He's been fronting the Seattle alt-rockers since 1990, when the members - Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready and a slew of drummers (currently Matt Cameron) - were just kids leading the then new movement called grunge. Vedder was angry, confused, conflicted and often poetic in the early days. Today (Dec. 23) marks his 50th birthday, and the singer is still at the top of his game vocally and politically.
  • Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood Shares 'Inherent Vice' Soundtrack, Paul Thomas Anderson Movie Out [LISTEN]

    Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood put together the music for Paul Thomas Anderson's next movie, "Inherent Vice," which is out now. The soundtrack features original Greenwood compositions, an unreleased Radiohead track and a Neil Young tune. It will be released tomorrow, Dec. 16, via Nonesuch Records, "Consequence of Sound" reports. The soundtrack marks the third collaboration between Greenwood and Anderson. The pair teamed up for 2007's "There Will Be Blood" and 2012's "The Master." Check out the tracklist and stream the soundtrack below. "Inherent Vice" stars Joaquin Phoenix, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin and Martin Short. It is based on the 2009 novel by Thomas Pynchon in which a detective looks into the disappearance of a former lover.
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