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  Who Charted? Incumbents Taylor Swift and Maroon 5 Stay on Top of Billboard's Best

  November 7, 2012 – First! After enjoying the biggest album debut sales week in over a decade, our pal Taylor Swift still sits strong in music's metaphorical oval office. Her SPIN-reviewed Red sold 72 percent fewer copies than its opening 1.21 million, but that's still good news. …
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• Neil Young & Crazy Horse, 'Psychedelic Pill' (Reprise)

  October 29, 2012 – At the heart of Neil Young's beautifully batshit new memoir, Waging Heavy Peace, is the enduring affirmation that he remains far more impulsive than any rational non-rock-star human could ever conceive of being. Similar (though not very listenable) evidence came earlier this year via Americana, a collection of folk covers of the "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain" variety played as only Crazy Horse shouldn't have. …
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  'Who's Bono?': Neil Young's Funniest Twitter Q&A Responses

  October 25, 2012 – Neil Young showed off his droll sense of humor during a Q&A on Twitter yesterday (October 24), using the #LegendsOnTwitter event to once again poke fun at Bono.Responding to a question from his handle @neilyoung, the Crazy Horse leader named Foster the People, who played his Bridge School Benefit this year, as one of the good young bands working today. This prompted another user to point out, "btw, bono said he likes them, too... …
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  Ask Neil Young a Question on Twitter Today

  October 24, 2012 – Rejoice, Neil Young devotees! The Crazy Horse leader will field questions on Twitter beginning at 3 p.m. EST on Wednesday, October 24, as part of the #LegendsOnTwitter campaign. To participate, tweet at Young's handle, @neilyoung, with the hashtag #AskNeil and voila! Instant banter with a living legend.Young confirmed the news on Twitter on Sunday: "Ok. It's on. …
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  Watch Guns N' Roses, Jack White, and More Play Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit

  October 22, 2012 – Neil Young showcased his famous friends once again at the 26th annual Bridge School Benefit this weekend, with Guns N' Roses, Jack White, Eddie Vedder, and more turning in acoustic sets for the two-day event in the San Francisco Bay Area. …
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  Neil Young and Crazy Horse's 'Twisted Road' Video Honors Dylan, Orbison, the Dead

  October 17, 2012 – Following NBC's premature declaration of his death and the release of his occasionally juicy memoir, is it any wonder that Neil Young is feeling nostalgic? The new video for his and Crazy Horse's "Twisted Road," from October 30's Psychedelic Pill, captures Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, and the Grateful Dead in their prime, interspersed with vintage footage of Young's band traveling the country in a funky old bus. …
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  Watch Neil Young and Crazy Horse's 17-Minute 'Ramada Inn' Video

  October 9, 2012 – Neil Young and Crazy Horse can't be accused of mild-mannered conformity. The iconoclastic rockers' first album of the year, Americana, reworked old folk standards as gnarled guitar workouts. Their second, Psychedelic Pill (one of SPIN's 25 Fall 2012 Albums You Gotta Hear), is due out October 30 via Reprise, and it's an eight-song double album, with three tracks clocking in over the 16-minute mark. …
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  What Neil Said to Bruce: The Juiciest Parts of Neil Young's 'Waging Heavy Peace'

  September 26, 2012 – Waging Heavy Peace, Neil Young's just-released and heavily anticipated memoir, is like his career in microcosm. Nearly 500 elliptical pages long, the book is beautiful, psychedelic, rootsy, ragged, terse, boring, riveting, sad, funny, nostalgic and forward-looking. Is it great literature? No. Does it include more than a casual fan probably wants to know about model trains and electric cars? Yup. It's also a must-read for Neil fans. …
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  Neil Young Makes Homage to Giants, Follows Judd Apatow on Twitter

  September 26, 2012 – Neil Young has always been a straight-shooter, so when the gnarled Godfather of Grunge names a record Psychedelic Pill, you can be damn sure things are gonna get trippy. The October 30 set will be his first album of original material with Crazy Horse in nearly a decade, and Rolling Stone debuted the inaugural song.Not to disappoint, "Walk Like a Giant" is a fuzzed up bruiser that runs a full 16 minutes on the record. …
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  Guns N' Roses, Jack White, Flaming Lips to Play Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit

  September 10, 2012 – Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit Concert celebrated its quarter-century mark last year, but the annual San Francisco Bay Area charity event doesn't look to be slowing down in year 26. Guns N' Roses, Jack White, and the Flaming Lips are among the acts on this year's bill. Joining them will be Neil Young himself (with Crazy Horse), Sarah McLachlan, Foster the People, Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers, k.d. …
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