CANADIAN RABBLE ROUSER

So, Neil Young threw together an album recently to gnash his teeth about the war in Iraq and the general crapshoot we call the Bush administration. It rocks. It honestly does. Click here to listen to Neil Young - Living With War, and visit the Living With War Weblog or Neil Young's regular website. Here's a snippet from the NYTimes review:

Neil Young unleashes a digital broadside today. His new album, "Living With War" (Reprise), was recorded and mostly written three to four weeks ago and as of Friday can be heard in its entirety free on his Web site, www.neilyoung.com, and on satellite radio networks.

Mr. Young half-jokingly describes "Living With War" as his "metal folk protest" album. It's his blunt statement about the Iraq war; "History was a cruel judge of overconfidence/back in the days of shock and awe," he sings, strumming an electric guitar and leading a power trio with a sound that harks back to Young albums like "Rust Never Sleeps" and "Ragged Glory."