Neil Younger is 79 years previous and has by no means been afraid to swim towards the tide, however he’s in contact with the youth in a single necessary manner: He’s gone all-in on lowercase. These days Younger has been performing with the Chrome Hearts, a band that includes Micah Nelson on guitar, Corey McCormick on bass, Anthony Logerfo on drums, and Spooner Oldham on Farfisa organ. As we speak that unit, billed explicitly as neil younger and the chrome hearts, releases its first music, “massive change is coming.” A press launch emphasizes that the shortage of capitalization.
Extra importantly, the music guidelines. It’s a loud, uncooked, shouty, bashed-the-fuck-out rock ‘n’ roll music that makes me need to go see Younger in live performance this yr much more than I already wished to. Huge drums are certainly drummin’, massive guitars strummin’, and so on. “Huge change is coming!” Younger sings repeatedly. “Could possibly be unhealthy, and it may very well be good!” Younger and Lou Adler produced the observe, and Younger’s longtime audio engineer John Hanlon calls it “in your face loud irreverent rock ‘n roll paint splatter on the canvas within the vein of a Jackson Pollack portray.” If solely I might hear it on Pono!
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In different Younger information, you most likely noticed he dropped off of the Glastonbury lineup after which jumped proper again on. However did you catch his assessment of the Bob Dylan biopic A Full Unknown? It reads as follows:
I like Bob Dylan and his music. At all times have. He’s an awesome artist. As soon as he was on my bus and I didn’t acknowledge him and threw him off however that’s one other story. This film is a superb tribute to his life and music. I believe should you love Bob’s music you must see this nice film. I liked it.
Yet one more Neil tidbit: He’s releasing one other shelved album, Oceanside Countryside, on Valentine’s Day.