
One day after the musician expressed in a now-deleted post on his official website that he. (No word on whether this will change the status of Young’s music on traditional streaming services like Spotify, where it was restored after a lengthy absence last fall.) There’s no specific date for when the archive will launch, but Young’s website claims it will be “opening soon. Spotify will no longer stream the music of Neil Young. Young is a longtime advocate for high-fidelity audio, and the archive will also make his entire catalog available for streaming via Xstream, his new proprietary streaming service. This occurred in the same week the Swedish-based streaming. Spotify customers who contacted customer service live chat on Thursday (January 27) ended up receiving support from a robot rather than a person after the streaming service was inundated with complaints. There’s also an intriguing mention of “unreleased albums,” a potential reference to several records that, like Hitchhiker, Young recorded but never made available to listeners. Spotify Removes Neil Youngs Music After Joe Rogan Claims. According to the note, the archive will include an interactive timeline of Young’s vast discography, with “credits, memorabilia, films or videos, press and photographs” associated with each release. Young touted the new archive in a note posted on his website, which you can read in full here. As Pitchfork notes, he also announced an upcoming online archival project that will include all of Young’s music released between 1963, when he cut his first single, and the present. This morning, Neil Young officially announced the impending release of Hitchhiker, a solo acoustic album he recorded in 1976 but decided against putting out at the time.
