Stereogum — Neil Young And Promise Of The Real’s upcoming The Monsanto Years is a protest album that continues Young’s recent trend of taking corporations to task regarding farm policies, GMOs (genetically modified organisms), and labor practices. Billboard ... more info

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LargeHeartedBoy — Bookworm interviewed Maggie Nelson about her memoir The Argonauts. Nelson listed the six books that influenced her memoir at Readers' Almanac. Stream a Neil Young song from his forthcoming album The Monsanto Years. Livestream some of the Bonnaroo mus... more info

Stereogum — Neil Young and the band Promise Of The Real (comprising Willie Nelson’s sons) will release their collaborative album, The Monsanto Years, at the end of this month, and we’ve already heard a live rendition of the title track and seen the video for... more info

Time — Don’t expect to see Neil Young with a Frappuccino any time soon. Young and Promise of the Real have released the full music video for their new song “Rock Star Bucks a Coffee Shop,” and in it, they mock Starbucks, Monsanto, and genetically modi... more info

Stereogum — At the beginning of the year, Neil Young announced that he would release a concept album alongside Micah and Lukas Nelson, the sons of his longtime friend and collaborator Willie Nelson. The Monsanto Years grapples with the environmental devastation ... more info

Stereogum — Neil Young has been highly critical of Starbucks due to the coffee chain’s alleged involvement with Monsanto and use of GMOs, although Starbucks says they aren’t involved in the Monsanto lawsuit that got Young all riled up last winter. That hasn�... more info

Stereogum — Last year, shortly after Neil Young said that CSNY would never tour again, David Crosby went on record with The Idaho Statesmen saying some very nasty things, most notably that Young’s new girlfriend Daryl Hannah — who he started dating after div... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — CookFiction.com shares recipes from novels, movies, television shows, and more. The A.V. Club reconsidered Neil Young's "Ditch" trilogy of albums: Time Fades Away, Tonight’s The Night, and On The Beach. Drowned in Sound interviewed singer-songwrite... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — Half a century ago, Neil Young and Steve Stills were regulars on the Sunset Strip rock scene with Buffalo Springfield. more info