Neil Young
Summary
Neil Percival Young, OC, OM (born November 12, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is considered to be one of most influential musicians of his generation. Young began performing as a solo artist in Canada in 1960, before moving to California in 1966, where he co-founded the band Buffalo Springfield along with Stephen Stills, and later joined Crosby, Stills & Nash as a fourth member in 1969. He then forged a successful and acclaimed solo career, releasing his first album in 1968. It has spanned 50 years and 33 studio albums, with a continual exploration of musical styles. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website describes Young as "one of rock and roll’s greatest songwriters and performers".
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Harper’s publisher doesn’t understand how the internet works, blames Google
It’s been awhile since we had a truly backward-looking editorial about the threat of the internet from a major print publisher — the most we have seen are behind-the-scenes attempts by Irish publishers to charge for links to their content. But now Harper’s magazine publisher John MacArthur has come up with an essay on the evils of Google and the ad-supported digital media business that would not have looked out of place a decade ago.
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Media Decoder Blog: Google Signs Deal With Warner Music Group
The agreement will bring Warner's music catalog - with Green Day, Madonna, Neil Young, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and hundreds of other acts - to Google's Play store.
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Google Signs Deal With Warner Music Group
The agreement will bring Warner's music catalog - with Green Day, Madonna, Neil Young, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and hundreds of other acts - to Google's Play store.
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Barclays Center, a Rival for Madison Square Garden
Big-name performers are adding tour dates at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, where costs can be lower and profit margins higher than at Madison Square Garden.
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Neil Young’s deceiving Twitter tease
When a popular musician joins Twitter, mobs of excited fans say they can’t wait to hear directly from their hero. But often the famous name on the account is just a front for an anonymous celebrity shill. Is it time for Twitter to be more honest about authenticity?.
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The e-book lending wars: When authors attack
We’ve written before about how complicated the process of lending an e-book is, and how much of this is a result of conflicting DRM locks and platforms, as well as a reluctance on the part of publishers to allow their books to be loaned. But authors can also be a roadblock when it comes to lending, and we’ve just had a classic example of how that can happen with the brouhaha over LendInk, a service that allowed readers to connect with others in order to share e-books.
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Trailer Mash 6-29-12
Teddy bears are for kids and Ted is no exception. The CGI bear is a bit rubbish, the mouth looks as though it was animated by the intern and what comes out of it sounds exactly like that Peter Griffin guy from that cartoon the kids love. Just like in that cartoon there's a comedy song that goes on too long and the gags are quick fire, low brow, mean-spirited, emptier than a vacuum and occasionally hilarious.
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Fallon adds YouTube to ‘Blow Your Pants Off’ campaign [with video, of course]
Jimmy Fallon is streaming a live performance and Q&A tonight on YouTube Presents to help promote his comedy album "Blow Your Pants Off," which will be released Tuesday.
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Free Publishers Lunch e-book offers excerpts from hot fall titles
Book publishing industry newsletter and website Publishers Lunch is previewing hot fall titles in a free e-book, “BEA Buzz Books,” ahead of major publishing fair BookExpo America in June in New York.
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Note to publishers: your addiction to DRM is killing you
The Department of Justice’s lawsuit against two major book publishers — for allegedly colluding with Apple to keep the price of e-books artificially high — continues to make its way through the courts, and has set off a frenzy of finger-pointing about who is to blame for the destruction of the book industry at the hands of Amazon’s evil monopoly.
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