Saint Paul/Minneapolis. Born in Los Angeles. Raised in Canada. Relocated from Ireland.
the title comes from one of my favourite novels.
the url comes from a play on one of my favourite albums.
Arcade Fire and Neil Young perform “Helpless”
Neil Young - Tell Me Why
sailing heart ships through broken harbours out on the waves in the night
Mumford & Sons “Dance Dance Dance”
Mumford & Sons cover a Neil Young song and perform several of their own tunes for a site I will now be frequenting with great audio [downloadable] and video recordings.
Neil Young and The Band (with Joni Mitchell) “Helpless” from The Last Waltz
HEY. Some music related news from the Olympics. Front page on vancouver2010.com in fact.
A host of special guest performers — Lou Reed, Ron Sexsmith and many more — and an all-star band led by members of Broken Social Scene and Joan as Police Woman will celebrate Canadian rock icon Neil Young in a concert for the ages.
Featuring:
Chris Brown
Vashti Bunyan
Robert Burger
Brendan Canning
Fred Cash
Jason Collett
Elvis Costello
Julie Doiron
Kevin Drew
Sam Goldberg
Emily Haines & James Shaw of Metric
Shahzad Ismaily
Colin James
Eric Mingus
Sun Kil Moon
Jenni Muldaur
Ambrosia Parsley
Justin Peroff
Ben Perowsky
Joan as Policewoman
Elizabeth Powell
Bill Priddle
Lou Reed
Alasdair Roberts
Ron Sexsmith
Teddy Thompson
James Blood Ulmer
Andrew Whiteman
Doug Wieselman
Emily Haines
Jimmy Fallon can do all the (brilliant) Neil Young impressions he wants, but his predecessor has the real thing coming up for his farewell episode of the Tonight Show on Friday night. The Wrap reports that NBC and Conan O’Brien finally reached an agreement this morning that officially makes this week O’Brien’s last as the host of the famous late-night talk show.
Don’t worry, though, Team CoCo. The Cone Bone will get $32 million from the network for his trouble, the possibility of returning to television in 8 months, and living legend Neil Young as his final musical guest.
Sure, some of us were originally hoping for the White Stripes to sing Conan off into the sunset (as they did for his final Late Night episode), but it’s pretty hard to beat Neil Young when it comes to making the night special. Not to mention, Will Ferrell and Tom Hanks are also among scheduled guests for Friday’s farewell, so it should be a fun, albeit bittersweet, show.
