Neil Young is one of rock's most influential songwriters. This fact isn't lost on Band of Skulls, an up-and-coming Brit power trio known for their hard-hitting electric sound, who stripped down backstage at Lollapalooza this August for an acoustic cover of Young's "Don’t Let It Bring You Down." Watch video below.

"We're in Wolfmother and we're here to play a couple of tunes," said frontman Andrew Stockdale as he and his band sat down to do just that in our NYC office.

It's not every day you meet a band that can name a member of Crazy Horse whose name doesn't end in "Young." It's even rarer to find a band that actually knows that member's solo material. In our new video below, Everest pulls off both feats.

The Killers, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, and Neil Young are scheduled to headline the Hard Rock Calling festival, which will take place June 26-28 in London, England's famed Hyde Park. Dave Matthews Band, Fleet Foxes, Ben Harper & Relentless 7, and the Pretenders are also scheduled to perform, with more artists to be announced.

It was a big week for concerts: Bruce Springsteen and Lily Allen both knocked 'em dead at their U.S. tour openers, Chris Cornell rocked Soundgarden classics on his solo tour, and Morrissey wowed the crowd at New York City's Carnegie Hall.

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The last time we checked in with Neil Young, he was riding in the back of a limousine in his Wall Street-bashing video for "Cough Up the Bucks." In this clip for "When World Collide," also from his new album Fork in the Road (out April 7), Young moves to the driver's seat -- and you know what that means: ROAD TRIP!