Neil Young

By noreply@blogger.com (heather) When I posted the new Rogue Wave video at the beginning of the summer, a reader posted a comment looking for Rogue Wave's cover of the 1970 Neil Young song "Birds" that they'd just covered at the Fillmore in San Francisco. Intriguing. Birds (Neil Young cover) - Rogue Wave

By noreply@blogger.com (heather) The five musicians closed with this Graham Nash cover about military madness and solitary sadness. Ben Gibbard led on the piano, and despite one false ending (another chorus? should we stop? let's do both) it was a stirring closer. This live mp3 is one I saw at the Bridge School Benefit in CA a...

By noreply@blogger.com (heather) There's a desolate ache to the brand of dusty Americana that Ryan Auffenberg creates from his outpost in the busy heart of San Francisco. As the SF Weekly wrote, "sweet, rough, singer-songwriter kids like Ryan Auffenberg have a powerful animating force — they like to fuck around with folk...

By heather And yes trusty readers, after some heart-stoppage yesterday morning I scored fanclub tickets to see Vedder in Berkeley in April (!!!) which means I will be seeing this chap -- son of Crowded House/Split Enz New-Zealander Neil Finn, and impressively catchy solo artist in his own right. Li...

By heather KFOG's podcast on Elliot here]. My friend Brad Kava at the Mercury News said of Randall's 2007 album Take The Fall that it "flies below the radar but could take off at any minute... A little bit country, a little bit Elliott Smith." This cut is a slowburn little gem of bittersweet harmonies that re...

By heather November is a good month for all my uberdork Pearl Jam anniversary celebrating. Ten years ago tonight, I was in my own personal upper echelon of sublime, unbelievable, kept-pinching-myself heaven: Wishlist (11/12/97 premiere) Happy Birthday to Neil Young (11/12/97)

By heather Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere This scorching cover of Neil Young's 1969 classic comes from fellow Canadians Lions In The Street when they visited the XM Radio studios recently. Here's a band that has the crazy idea that music should be shared and loved freely, so to that effect, they give...

By heather So it's not like I light a candle or get a tear in my eye, but I do always smile when I write the date on November 4th because the dork in my brain will always remember that as the first time I saw Pearl Jam live in concert. photo credit] I know. In other Pearl Jam news -- PREORDER: PEARL JAM VS. AMES BROS

By heather I Got Id - Pearl Jam (with Neil Young) [from Merkinball EP] Round Are Way - Oasis [from Wonderwall EP] Woman King - Iron & Wine [from Woman King EP] The Man - Pete Yorn [from Westerns EP] Born To Run (live, acoustic) - Bruce Springsteen [from Chimes of Freedom EP]

By heather Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Saint Etienne Imaginative re-working of the old Neil Young song More Than I Can Do - Steve Earle Stalker song sometimes mistaken for a love song, along the lines of "Every Breath You Take." Only less played out.