2:59

I think one of the pleasures of having this site as an outlet is that it allows me to highlight a selection of music that’s closer to my everyday listening habits than the daily content of Punknews represents. Not that anyone reads this, making the whole exercise rather pointless, but it’s good for my overall constituion regardless. On that note you can stream the entire new Neil Young record Prairie Wind from his website now. Neil wrote this one while his life was threatened by a potentially fatal brain aneurysm, which puts the work in an interesting position spiritually. It shares that mix of retrospection, fear and accaptance that could be heard last album Joey Ramone wrote before succuming to his cancer. Thankfully the good Mr. Young is still with us, and I’m really hoping to be able to catch him when he tours behind this one.

Neil Young - Prairie Wind (Flash stream)