NEIL YOUNG ALBUM HEADS TO INTERNET FIRST

[OneAngryDemocrat]

ALBUM HEADS TO INTERNET FIRST
By Steve Gorman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Neil Young's newly recorded protest album "Living With War," including a song calling for the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush, will be posted for free Internet streaming next week, his label said on Friday.

Starting April 28, fans can log onto Young's Web site, www.neilyoung.com, and listen to the 10-track collection in its entirety, free of charge, said Bill Bentley, a spokesman for Warner Music Group's Reprise Records.

The album will first become commercially available as a digital download beginning May 2, "and we plan to get it into retail stores as soon after that as we can get them manufactured," Bentley said.

He said the label anticipates getting the album into retail outlets between May 5 and May 15. "Neil wants this album out there as soon as possible," Bentley added.

The Canadian-born Young, 60, who has tackled social and political themes through four decades as a singer-songwriter, wrote and recorded his latest studio offering over a two-week period this month, backed by a 100-member choir, according to his long-time manager, Elliot Roberts.

Much of the album conveys a sense of outrage, vowing repeatedly in the title track "to never kill again," mocking Bush's conduct of the Iraq war in "Shock and Awe" and calling for his removal from office in a provocative song titled "Let's Impeach the President."


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http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2006-04-22T020411Z_01_N21295317_RTRUKOC_0_UK-LEISURE-YOUNG.xml&archived=False

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[stellanoir]

1. woohoo

K & R

[Clarkie1]

2. Looking forward to it. n/t

[onehandle]

3. Which Internet? nt

[eShirl]

5. all of 'em

every last one

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Lyrics here:

http://www.neilyoung.com/lww/lww.html

[Roland99]

6. Four more days

:)

[npincus]

7. TYPO Alert: That's "Internets", not "Internet"

I hope folks shell out bucks for this even though they can hear it for free, to show support for the artist and send a message to the Record Companies that dissent is BIG BUCKS, perhaps they can encourage more artists to express themselves without fear of reprisal.

[wicket]

8. Keep on rockin' in the free world....

n/t

[B3Nut]

9. That's surprising for Neil

since he's no fan of digital audio sonically. He still releases albums on vinyl...I think I'll buy this new album on vinyl...nothing says "protest" like a spinning turntable! :D But I can see him wanting to get this out there ASAP, and releasing the music in a compressed (yuck) format is the quickest way to get it out there. At least it'll still be available in true formats (CD and LP) soon.

Props to Mr. Young for keeping both protest and the analog flame alive.

Todd in Beerbratistan

[lonestarnot]

10. Thanks for the link!