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Neil Young has announced details of a new album called ‘Before And After’.Set for release later this year, the forthcoming LP will see the rock and roll icon re-visit his back catalogue and re-record various tracks in a new light.“Picking from a vast array of his originals, Young chooses favourites from his playbook like a trip into his music history,” reads a press release. It also states that the majority of tracks on the new album are solo acoustic re-recordings.Set to arrive on December 8 via Reprise, the album will see Young structure the tracklist so that the songs blend together and create one continuous flow from beginning to end.“The feeling is captured, not in pieces, but as a whole piece — designed to be listened to that way,” said Young of the new album.

Thania Garcia Randy Meisner, the retired American singer and co-founding member of the Eagles, died on July 26 in Los Angeles due to complications from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a statement shared by the band on their website. He was 77.

Neil Young reunited with Stephen Stills at a show in Los Angeles on Saturday – watch them perform together below.Young came on to perform with Stills at the latter’s ‘Light Up The Blues’ event that he puts on every year in aid of Autism Speaks. Young performed solo renditions of ‘From Hank To Hendrix’ and ‘Comes A Time’ before he was joined by house band Promise Of The Real for ‘Heart Of Gold’.Stills then joined in for the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young number ‘Helpless’ and remained for a series of Buffalo Springfield songs, including ‘For What It’s Worth’, ‘Bluebird’ and ‘Mr.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Comes a time when even Neil Young is going to set foot on a stage again after the pandemic, and the recently gig-shy legend turned in his first substantial live performance in almost four years Saturday night at a benefit concert at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. Young shared much of his time on stage with Stephen Stills, in a show that relied so much on material from their first run as fellow band members in the 1960s, it almost amounted to a true “Buffalo Springfield revisited” show. The two longtime cohorts’ appearances apart and in tandem would have been draw enough to fill the Greek Saturday for the “Autism Speaks Light Up the Blues 6 Concert,” a sixth edition of the recurring autism benefits hosted by Stills and his wife Kristen, this one postponed by three years from its original spring 2020 date. But there was plenty of star power besides, including sets by Willie Nelson, making a brief but impactful appearance in advance of his 90th birthday celebration next weekend at the Hollywood Bowl, and Joe Walsh, who ensured that Stills and Young did not have the guitar heroism to themselves.

Stevie Nicks has shared a cover of Buffalo Springfield‘s ‘For What It’s Worth’, the ’60s protest anthem written by Stephen Stills.The release of the new version was announced earlier this week in a handwritten letter posted to social media. It follows the Fleetwood Mac member’s most recent solo album, 2014’s ’24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault’, a collection of re-recorded demos written between 1969 and 1987.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 8-14:May 8: Singer Toni Tennille is 82. Country singer Jack Blanchard is 80. Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett is 77.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorOutsider music and outsider art have been bedfellows in just about every sense since the two art forms have existed, and that collaboration is celebrated and explored in the Outsider Art Fair, taking place at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York this weekend.The exhibit — which is celebrating its 30 th year and is billed “the only fair dedicated to showcasing self-taught art, art brut and outsider art from around the world” — features more than 60 international exhibitors, including works from the Michael Stipe Collection as well as an exhibition of psychedelic art curated by Fred Tomaselli called “Field Trip: Psychedelic Solution, 1986 – 1995.”The latter is filled with work from the likes of pioneering underground cartoonist/Zap Comix artist Spain Rodriguez, R Crumb, Robert Williams, Rick Griffin, S. Clay Wilson along with original artwork related to artists like Jefferson Airplane, Buffalo Springfield and the Who — there’s even the original drawing that spawned the Grateful Dead’s logo along with the origin story as well as preparatory drawings for the Jerry Garcia solo album “Compliments Of” from 1974 by artist Victor Moscoso.

"Native Sons,” Los Lobos (New West)Considering the covers album “Native Sons” pays tribute to the music of a single city — Los Lobos' native Los Angeles — the set's breadth is breathtaking.Familiar songs by Jackson Browne, Buffalo Springfield and the Beach Boys are interspersed with R&B and garage rock obscurities, along with nods to Los Lobos' many Latin influences.

Chris Willman Music WriterNo music artist is more intrinsically identified with Los Angeles than Los Lobos — unless, say, we’re talking the Beach Boys, Thee Midnighters, Jackson Browne, Little Feat, Buffalo Springfield or the Blasters, to name a few of the fellow homegrown musicians that the group proudly covers on “Native Sons,” their debut for the New West label.Variety has the premiere of two tracks from the project, due out July 30.

Rusty Young was a guitarist, singer, and songwriter who was a founding member of the country rock band Poco, known for hits including “Crazy Love.”Young joined former members of Buffalo Springfield in 1968 to form Poco. He played pedal steel guitar on the new group’s gentle country rock, including the 1979 hit “Crazy Love,” which Young also wrote and sang lead vocals on.

Alice Cooper has announced his 21st solo album ‘Detroit Stories’, which will see the shock-rock icon heading back to his early roots.Cooper, who was born in Detroit, says the album will explore how the city helped to popularise “angry hard rock” in the US.It will feature a number of veteran musicians from the scene, including MC5’s Wayne Kramer, Detroit Wheels drummer Johnny ‘Bee’ Badanjek and bassist Paul Randolph.“Los Angeles had its sound with The Doors, Love and Buffalo Springfield,” said

The first night of the Democratic National Convention closed out with a performance by Billy Porter and rock star Stephen Stills that garnered mixed reactions from viewers. The “Pose” star teamed up with Stills to perform what appeared to be a pre-recorded cover of Buffalo Springfield’s 1966 protest anthem “For What It’s Worth,” which Stills originally wrote and recorded with Springfield.

Bill Porter Sings… With Stephen Stills?Several celebrities showed up throughout the night, but the appearance that stuck in everyone’s head afterward came at the very end courtesy of an eye catching music video featuring “Pose” star Billy Porter and rock legend Stephen Stills that brought the event to a close. The duo performed a cover of Still’s 1966 Buffalo Springfield hit “For What It’s Worth,” their performances digitally imposed on several colorful backgrounds and protest imagery.

Billy Porter closed the Democratic National Convention in spectacular fashion Monday night.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFollowing Michelle Obama is no easy task, but the duo of Billy Porter and Stephen Stills stepped up with a virtual performance of “For What It’s Worth” during the opening night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention.While Stills first wrote and sang the song — which is perhaps better known by its subtitle, “Stop, Hey, What’s That Sound?” — as a member of Buffalo Springfield in 1967, it has become a generation-spanning protest anthem for times when the world

, Oklahoma, on 20 June, which controversially went ahead despite concerns over the ongoing pandemic.The lawsuit states the "campaign does not now have, and did not at the time of the Tulsa rally, have a license or Plaintiff's permission" to play the songs at any "public political event".The former member of Buffalo Springfield said he has "continuously" complained about Mr Trump's use of his songs since 2015, but he has been "willfully ignored".Young said his first complaint was in connection

Chris Willman Music WriterLaurel Canyon is a very real place, but it comes off almost as a Brigadoon-style dream in the commemoration of the L.A.

Pose star Billy Porter just released his new single, a cover of Stephen Stills’ “For What It’s Worth,” as performed by Buffalo Springfield.

Billy Porter has always been a "very political person," he says. It's no surprise then that his latest single was recorded with the intent to get people to vote in the upcoming presidential election.