She's ready for the Gulf tour.

http://www.lincvolt.com/lincvolt_lincvoltgazette

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Thanks again to k~

It has been reported in a couple of publications that Neil has written a book on "inner thoughts" that is slated for fall release.

http://news-herald.com/articles/2010/09/05/life/nh2936285.txt

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thanks to K~ for the heads up.

Neil Young delivers new Daniel Lanois-produced album

Story by Rob Evans, SoundSpike Editor
Published September 1, 2010 12:46 PM

A new Neil Young [ tickets ] album titled "Le Noise" is set for release on Sept. 28, Reprise Records announced today.

Famed producer Daniel Lanois (U2, Peter Gabriel) collaborated with Young on the forthcoming set, marking the first time the two have recorded together.

"Le Noise" was recorded in Lanois' home in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. According to a press release, the album "features Young on acoustic and electric guitars with Lanois adding his trademark sonic textures, creating one of the most sonically arresting albums Young has ever recorded."

No band or overdubs were utilized, just "a man on a stool and me doing a nice job on the recording," Lanois said in a statement.

"Neil was so appreciative of the sonics that we presented to him," Lanois said. "He walked in the door and I put an acoustic guitar into his hands -- one that I had been working on to build a new sound. That's the multi-layered acoustic sound that you hear on the songs 'Love and War' and 'Peaceful Valley Boulevard.' I wanted him to understand that I've spent years dedicated to the sonics in my home and that I wanted to give him something he'd never heard before. He picked up that instrument, which had everything -- an acoustic sound, electronica, bass sounds -- and he knew as soon as he played it that we had taken the acoustic guitar to a new level. It's hard to come up with a new sound at the back end of 50 years of rock and roll, but I think we did it."

"Le Noise" will be released as a standard CD, on vinyl, as a digital download and as a deluxe CD/DVD. The DVD, shot by cinematographer Adam Vollick, features eight black-and-white films of Young performing each song solo on acoustic and electric guitar in the studio. A Blu-Ray edition is due in November.

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Seattle Pi reports:

Neil Young - Le Noise

In a lot of ways, this could be seen as merely the latest in a long line of experimental albums from Neil Young — if only the songs we've heard so far didn't sound so damn good.

But on paper, everything about Le Noise from the title on down screams classic Neil Young weirdness. From what we know, this is a mostly solo record (although we have also heard that Young is accompanied on at least some of the songs by the late Ben Keith), but is also not your usual folkie Harvest type acoustic outing.

Here instead, Neil is mostly cranking up the electric guitar — aided by the "sonics" of producer Daniel Lanois. But before you run like hell thinking this could be another 40 minutes of feedback noise a la' the infamous Arc disc of Neil's live Arc-Weld with Crazy Horse, most of these songs have been previewed on Neil Young's current Twisted Road tour and both audiences and critics alike have been near unanimous in their praise. Songs like the autobiographical "Hitchhiker" and "Love And War" also find Neil Young reflecting on issues like his own mortality like no other album since Prairie Wind. This is also a nice warm up for the next round of Neil's Archives discs, which will include the first official appearances of the "lost albums" Homegrown, Chrome Dreams, Toast and Oceanside, Countryside.

Verdict: This won't be a huge commercial hit, but should do solid business with Neil Young's core fanbase. It should also do much better than 2009's Fork In The Road did with the critics, and will very likely make a few year-end "Best Of 2010" lists. This could be one of this years bigger sleepers.

Le Noise Songlist:

01. Walk With Me
02. Sign Of Love
03. Someone’s Gonna Rescue You
04. Love And War
05. Angry World
06. Hitchhiker
07. Peaceful Valley Boulevard
08. Rumblin
 

:: seattlepi.com/pop/...blogcritics.org...

Pearl Jam fans, save the date: guitarist Stone Gossard says the closest thing to a 20th birthday gig for the band will be a slot on the bill of Neil Young's annual Bridge School Benefit in Mountain View, Calif. on Oct. 23 and 24.

"The only thing we've got going on in October is Bridge School, which is really special," Gossard told Billboard while in New York to support the new album by his side-band, Brad. "So that's our 20th anniversary, which is fitting. It's perfect: not too blown up. It's not about us, it about all those kids that are on stage with you and about Neil Young and his commitment, his influence." It will be Pearl Jam's eighth Bridge appearance. The group first played the benefit, which supports Young's school for children with severe physical disabilities, back in 1992.

Q&A: Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard Talks Brad, PJ & More

The Bridge School dates, which will likely be held at the Shoreline Amphitheater, begin the day after Pearl Jam's exact anniversary. Oct. 22 marks the date in 1990 that the band, then called Mookie Blaylock, played its first show in Seattle's tiny Off Ramp club.

"It's so great that it's still going on, isn't it? 'Just stick together,' that's the advice we got from [U2's manager] Paul McGuinness," back in the early 90s, Gossard says, laughing. "I think we've just stayed on course in a way that's maybe encouraged people and surprised people, and I think there's more that we can do."

No other acts, aside from Neil Young, have yet been announced for the 2010 Bridge concerts.

Though Pearl Jam has been plenty busy this year -- they've done both a U.S. and European tour and released digital bootlegs of every show -- Gossard divulges that the band is mulling a South American trek for 2011.

Meanwhile, plans for the follow up to the Seattle rock veterans' 2009 album "Backspacer," which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, are just in the early stages, according to Gossard. "We were actually talking about trying to get in [to write and record] before Bridge School, but I think this Band Of Horses [tour] with Brad is going to make that harder to do. But the band is definitely going to get together probably [initially] without [frontman] Ed [Vedder] and start to hammer out some more demos and get some stuff to the point where he can hear it."

Pearl Jam's various members, however, have spent their summer vacations moonlighting with other musical projects. Gossard's Brad released its fourth studio album "Best Friends?" this month; it's available at PearlJam.com. As he mentioned, Brad will hit the road in October opening for Band of Horses, who themselves opened for Pearl Jam this spring.

"I'm hoping that Brad can do for [Band Of Horses'] show what they did for Pearl Jam," Gossard says. "[Singer] Shawn [Smith] hasn't played in arenas really and his voice through a big PA is going to really fill it up in a way that's going to surprise people."

Gossard adds that Brad will also slip in a few headlining New York shows and possibly a TV appearance while Band Of Horses heads to Texas to play the Austin City Limits Music Festival, which takes place Oct. 8-10.

"I'm really looking forward to interpreting this new [Brad] material and going back and relearning old songs that we've maybe never even played before, really showcasing what Brad's sound is. It started pretty naturally, I mean it was in '91, '92, so when everyone was going heavy we were going super mellow... I am fascinated by that aspect of being in bands and how time can strength your bonds; how that exaggerates the emotion of the music."

Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, who contributed brand new solo song "Better Days" to the just-released "Eat, Pray, Love" soundtrack, will pop up in Little Rock, Ark. to headline a West Memphis Three benefit on Aug. 28 alongside the Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines. Proceeds from the concert, which will be held at the Robinson Center Music Hall, will go to Arkansas Take Action which has long been fighting to overturn what many feel are the wrongful murder convictions of three locals. Vedder has supported the cause for a decade.

Drummer Matt Cameron, as previously reported, is doing double duty: he has played a handful of reunion shows with his original band, Soundgarden. So far, the quartet has played a pair of club shows plus the closing night headlining Lollapalooza slot. An album of hits and rarites, "Telephantasm" -- which includes the previously unreleased 1991 outtake "Black Rain" -- is due Sept. 28. More Soundgarden dates have been rumored but not confirmed.

"I'm looking forward to seeing some more Soundgarden shows," says Gossard. "I hope that that's part of the mix of next year. Matt getting out there and playing some dates with Soundgarden would make the world so happy. They're crushing and the songs are so great. You can tell they are so reverential about their music, and they're playing with conviction. It just shows you how different bands make the same drummer play in different ways."

:: billboard.com/news/for-pearl-jam-s-20th-birthday-a-bridge-school