Pitchfork

Neil Young's latest record, May's Living With War, was a surprise in that-- for an album recorded so quickly and with such an overt political message-- it wasn't awful. Young is following its relative success by making a video for each of War's 11 songs, gathered on a page on his website designed to look like a newspaper and displaying the logo "Living With War Today", made to look like that of USA Today.

The videos come courtesy of the LWW "channel" (the LWW looks like the CNN logo) and are paired with documentaries about the making of each song. You can stream all of the documentaries from Young's website, but only three videos have been made available so far: "After the Garden", "Families", and "America the Beautiful". They're pretty boring, consisting mostly of evening news-style clips played over the songs, but Neil has sort of earned himself a free pass at this point. It could be worse. He could be planning a hip hop album like a certain other celebrated songwriter.