Brooklyn Vegan — Neil Young and Promise of the Real (the band featuring Willie Nelson's sons Lukas and Micah) recently released their Monsanto-criticizing album, The Monsanto Years, and will soon be on tour supporting it. The tour includes NYC-area venue Jones Beach.... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — At this point in his career, Neil Young has traveled so many paths that his oeuvre is its own game of Choose Your Own Adventure. Need some acoustic-based comfort? Head to "Harvest." Hardened introspection? "Tonight's the Night." "Trans" works well fo... more info

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LargeHeartedBoy — New music I can recommend this week includes Neil Young's The Monsanto Years and The Velvet Teen's All Is Illusory. The Civil Wars' Joy Williams' Venus and Matt Pond PA's The State Of Gold are also in stores today.... more info

Stereogum — Ty Segall can seemingly transform himself into a righteous glam-rock god at will, but the prolific rocker can do just about anything well, and that includes intimate, stripped-down acoustic psychedelia. This past week, Segall went on a short run of s... more info

Stereogum — Last week, Neil Young released a new record called The Monsanto Years. It isn’t very good. It’s a cartoonish protest concept record revolving around the agriculture company Monsanto and GMOs. The other distinguishing factor of the album is that Y... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — As you probably heard, Neil Young was upset when Donald Trump used "Rockin' in the Free World" as a theme song announcing his bid for President. As Neil admitted in his statement about Trump's use of his song, he... more info

Stereogum — When Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president last week, Neil Young’s “Rockin’ In The Free World” played as he walked onto the stage at Trump Tower. Neil Young didn’t like that, duh, and he wrote a whole long statement explaining ... more info

Stereogum — Neil Young has been in the news a lot lately, for taking “Rockin’ In The Free World” away from Donald Trump and gifting it to Bernie Sanders and for exchanging words with some of the world’s biggest, scariest corporations. But Young isn’t j... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Neil Young's very politically-charged new album, The Monsanto Years, is out next week (6/29) but you can stream the whole thing right now (via The Guardian). The album, which was made with Willie Nelson's sons' band Promise of the... more info