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Less than a year after launching Pono via one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns in history for Neil Young's portable PonoPlayer and its accompanying download service, PonoMusic, the legendary singer/songwriter has released a statement asking for financial help. He went on his Facebook page to provide a long-winded recap of how the business has been faring and he said it's a "delicate time" for his company. -
Neil Young Removes Music from Streaming Services, Cites Awful Audio
Neil Young has joined performers such as Taylor Swift and Prince in removing his music from the majority of streaming services, however he cites audio quality and not financial elements for the decision. The godfather of grunge has always been an audio-obsessive, but there's a chance that this recent decision was simply to help boost use of his personal service, Pono. -
PonoPlayer All Hype According to Tests Run by Yahoo; Average Listener Can't Seem to Hear Difference
The much-hyped PonoPlayer developed by Neil Young and others to supposedly blow away iTunes and other compressed music formats may be just that: hype. A test run by Yahoo's tech writer David Pogue suggests that the average listener not only can't tell the difference between Pono and iTunes...they even prefer the latter. -
Neil Young Recording New Album with Willie Nelson's Sons: Singer Also Talks About Pono Service [WATCH]
Neil Young's new Pono music player debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas recently. The guitarist sat down with "Rolling Stone" to discuss the new service, which launched this week, but naturally the conversation covered other areas. He revealed that his next album will be a collaboration with Willie Nelson's sons Lukas and Micah.Young and the Nelson boys have performed together previously at the Harvest the Hope and Bridge School benefits as well as Farm Aid."I'm working on another album now that I'm going to do be doing with Willie Nelson's sons," the singer said, adding that the record may have something to do with the Monsanto agriculture company — Young has been critical of the organization in the past.Past that album, Young does not have anything else lined up. -
Kickstarter Funds More Music Projects Than Any Other Category during 2014; Neil Young and 'Meow The Jewels' Big Earners
Kickstarter and crowd funding in general had their biggest year ever during 2014 and no subject matter was more popular on crowdfunding's most popular platform than music. More than 4,000 project were successfully backed on the site, more than any other category, including film & video, art and publishing. More than 18 percent of all Kickstarter campaigns finder during 2014 were tied to music. -
Neil Young's PonoMusic Catalogue Available Online, Actual PonoPlayers Available for Sale at Fry's Electronics Locations Next Week
If you take digital audio quality as seriously as Neil Young does, then your time has finally come: His PonoMusic player will go on sale starting next week, and in the meantime you can peruse the songs and albums available for purchase via the PonoMusic online catalogue. -
Neil Young Uses Kickstarter To Save The Rainforest, Teams Up With ‘Rainforest Connection’
It looks as if Neil Young is really digging the whole Kickstarter craze, because just a few months after the “Heart of Gold” singer completely funded his Pono Music campaign via the global crowdfunding platform, he’s back at it with hopes to save the rainforest, as Rolling Stone reports. -
Neil Young's PONO Digital Music Service and Online Store Ready for 2014 Launch
For the last several years, Neil Young has been working with a team on a technology that would enhance the quality of MP3s, which inherently lose sound quality during compression. The high-end device and software "[liberates] the music of the artist from the digitial file and [restores] it to its original artistic quality - as it was in the studio," Young said. "It has primal power."
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