Morning Music Notes – Neil Young, Future iPod Inventor?

Was Neil Young Working on a new iPod with Steve Jobs?

Neil Young notorious liar claims he was working on a new iPod with Apple co-founder, the late Steve Jobs (via Guardian). “Steve Jobs was a pioneer of digital music, but when he went home he listened to vinyl,” Neil Young has said. The diminishing audio quality concerned both Young and Jobs, and they set out to work on hardware to store better quality audio. Not much has happened with this product since Jobs died – I guess Neil Young isn’t much of an inventor.

“What everybody gets [on an MP3] is 5% of what we originally make in the studio,” Young said. “We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it’s degrading our music, not improving.”

“I look at [the] internet as the new radio,” he explained. “Radio [is] gone. Piracy is the new radio; it’s how music gets around.”

Very good analogy – both are free methods of listening to music. Now let’s worth on making that vinyl player portable, shall we?

New Noel Gallagher Project, Amorphous Androgynous, To Release Song in March

Last year, Noel Gallagher stunned fans by announcing not one but two albums. One would be under the name Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, while the other would be a collaboration with Amorphous Androgynous. Now, fans will get a taste of this project, as the B-side to new single, Dream On, will contain the track Shoot A Hole in the Sun (via NME). Noel previously discussed the project by saying “It’s got like 18 tracks on it, some of it’s krautrock, some of it’s soul, some of it’s funk and that’s just the first song.” Noel is known for over promising and under delivering, so let’s see how “out there” this new track really is.

J. Tillman from Fleet Foxes Announces New Project, Father John Misty

It was recently announced that the Fleet Foxes drummer, J. “I don’t go by my full first name” Tillman, was leaving the band. He didn’t take long to announce a new project – Father John Misty (via Billboard). Interesting name…. There is a new video out, for the song Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings. The video features Aubrey Plaza, from the show Parks and Recreation. Check out the video below.

Father John Misty – Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings
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Listen to New Lana Del Rey Album – Born to Die

In case you haven’t bought the new Lana Del Rey album, or are waiting to hear more material before you do so, now is your chance to do the latter. For your listening convenience, PeteHatesMusic presents the full audio stream of the new Lana Del Rey album. Feel free to leave your verdict in the comments section.