The Independent — Neil Young’s high-end Pono music player has launched, with initial reviews suggesting it lives up to its hype. more info

Stereogum — Matt Mondanile, the Real Estate guitarist and Ducktails frontman, apparently isn’t so busy with his side projects that he can’t record the odd fuck-around cover in his room. Today, Mondanile shared his version of “Bad Fog Of Loneliness,” a so... more info

Stereogum — The Pono store is live, and whaddaya know, that shit is expensive! Ever since he rolled it out on Letterman, Neil Young’s high-quality digital audio player already seemed like a product designed strictly for boomers with money to blow. The Pono pla... more info

Time — Wearing a wacky wig, he performs Neil Young's solo from "Down by the River" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon more info

Aquarium Drunkard — You did check these out, right? Hello, Mr. Soul :: Neil Young Covers, 1967-1978 Françoise Hardy :: Till the Morning Comes more info

The 9513 Country Music — Robert Earl Keen’s been added to the MerleFest lineup. (via press release) The building that housed Quad Studios, a Nashville studio where Neil Young, Joan Baez, Keith Urban, Old Crow Medicine Show, and lots more have recorded since 1970, will bec... more info

Stereogum — Eddie Vedder played an intimate benefit show for EB Research, the charity he’s been vocally supporting lately, last month at Microsoft’s Seattle headquarters. The Pearl Jam frontman played songs by John Lennon, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, ... more info

Time — The legendary rocker sings the final track off his new album 'Storytone' — with the help of a huge team of musicians more info

Stereogum — Rick Rosas was an L.A.-based session musician who had recorded and toured with Neil Young, off and on, for more than a quarter century. He’d also played with people like Joe Walsh, the Buffalo Springfield, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Early th... more info

Time — Neil Young, Marilyn Manson and Patti Smith are just a few of the legendary singers who like to rock out with their smock out more info