NME — Soul singer Booker T is set to release a new solo album - featuring Neil Young on guitar duties and Drive-By Truckers as his backing band. more info

NME — Soul singer Booker T is set to release a new solo album - featuring Neil Young on guitar duties and Drive-By Truckers as his backing band. more info

Detroit Free Press — Nickel Eye is the solo project of Strokes bassist Nikolai Fraiture. For new album "The Time of the Assassins" (due Tuesday), he drew on poems and rants composed years ago and adapted them into songs with the help of South, a British band. The work is... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: The Chum BucketSpinner.com: Neil Young is going to release a concept album about electric cars. OK then. [Pitchfork] Pitchfork's Ryan Schreiber went on ABC to discuss his five albums to watch in '09. And we got three of 'em. We're cool.... more info

Pitchfork — According to the Village Voice's Rob Harvilla, the next Neil Young album is going to be, seriously, a "concept album about eco-friendly cars." According to The Guardian, the album "seems to be exploring three things – dirty blues, direct lyrics, an... more info

Undercover, Australia — Neil Young played his first Australian show on the Big Day Out yesterday on the Gold Coast. more info

Undercover, Australia — Booker T. Jones is about to release his first solo album in more than 20 years and Neil Young is the driving force behind 9 of the 10 tracks. more info

Undercover, Australia — Neil Young has played his first show of 2009 as headline act for the first Big Day Out of the year in Auckland, New Zealand. more info

Yahoo! Music — Reuters - Booker T. Jones' resume on the renowned Stax/Volt soul labels reads like a field guide to American music. But for his first solo set since the '80s, the 64-year-old musician went with a different kind of Southern sound, enlisting Ge... more info

Reuters — SAVANNAH, Georgia (Billboard) - Booker T. Jones' resume on the renowned Stax/Volt soul labels reads like a field guide to American music. But for his first solo set since the '80s, the 64-year-old musician went with a different kind of Southern sound... more info