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Monday, February 09, 2026

New Neil Young Albums Coming: Live Chrome Hearts + 1997 Hippie Dream Warmup Tour with Crazy Horse

 Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts: Live Album
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For this year's Record Store Day on April 18, a limited double LP version of the upcoming live album by Neil Young & Chrome Hearts will be released on 140-gram clear vinyl. 

Per a RSD press release, the album has 13 tracks, recorded during the 2025 "Love Earth" tour in Europe and North America. 

Setlist: Neil Young with Crazy Horse 
El Trocadero, San Francisco, CA, May 8, 1997
image via Sugar Mountain


In other "another new Neil Young album coming" news, a concert of El Trocadero, San Francisco, CA, May 8, 1997 will be released TBD and "in advance of Archives Volume #4", per NYA.

From the 1997 Hippie Dream Warmup Tour with Crazy Horse, the concert album will be from two different sources: the Hard Luck Stories recording and a complete audience recording. The entirety of the Hard Luck Stories version, which is incomplete, was spliced ​​with the audience recording as seamlessly as possible, and the sound quality is said to be "very good". 

With "Razor Love" (played twice), "Don't Be Denied", "Hard Luck Stories", "Throw Your Hatred Down" (also played twice) and more. 

1st Set
01 Hard Luck Stories
02 I'm The Ocean
03 Razor Love
04 Crime In The City (false start)
05 Crime In The City
06 Truth Be Known
07 Piece Of Crap
08 Don't Be Denied
09 Throw Your Hatred Down
10 Downtown
11 Hippie Dream (aborted)
12 Hippie Dream
13 Mellow My Mind
14 Rockin' In The Free World

2nd Set
01 Hey, Hey, My, My
02 Slip Away
03 Big Time
04 The Losing End
05 Sedan Delivery
06 Throw Your Hatred Down
07 Razor Love
08 Cowgirl In The Sand
09 Prisoner's Of Rock And Roll

UPDATE:  It appears that early reports have been confused. Apologies. Corrections and clarifications in comments below.


love earth 2025 WORLD tour 
neil young and the chrome hearts 
(see “Love Earth 2025 Tour”: Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts ) 

9 comments:

  1. Apparently this setlist presented above originated with me, somehow. In a comment on the German fan site "Rusted Moon" I posted that setlist which came with a ROIO that has been widely circulated and also included the introductionary note on how that ROIO version of "Hard Luck Stories" was created: There is an imcomplete soundboard recording (?) that had been spliced with a complete audience recording. Neil Young on NYA mentions a much shorter list which contains just the rare or unusual tracks (rare for Crazy Horse). And it's not likely that there will be two versions of "Razor Love" or "Throw Your Hatred Down" etc.
    Announcing the release of the Trocadero show remains a riddle to me, because it has been already there as a timeline concert for a couple of years now. The NYA annouincement is cryptic regarding the release formats. Will this be an appetizing NYA Vol. 4 standalone, maybe as a vinyl release, too?

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    1. Quote from NYATC: „ Sometime in 2027 or late 2026, Hard Luck Stories will be featured in NYA Volume 4. You will get it here a long time before that.“
      Thus, it is an appetizer for NYA Vol 4. It contains just 8 tracks, not the complete 2 shows.

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  2. And another insignificant detail found out by the tireless Rusted Moon crew: The official German Record Store day list mentions the new live album with the Chrome Hearts to be titled "As Time Explodes". "Live Album" might just be a placeholder title.

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  3. Thanks Dionys & Dieter.

    It appears that early reports have been confused. Apologies. Really appreciate the corrections and clarifications.

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  4. Yes, an appetizer, but what exactly will it be, something in the vein of "Takes" (Vol.3). i.e. a CD and Vinyl release or will it be an upgraded Timeline Concert, maybe for download. I didn't check the duration of the tracks but with recent quality standards will this be a three-sider or just a single record, maybe something completely different, a LP with a 45 added?

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  5. I had my ticket for the 2nd Catalyst show. I was so jacked up to finally see Neil at the Catalyst....

    Then he decided he wanted a ham sandwich....

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  6. From a French website.

    1. Daddy Went Walking
    2. Looking Forward
    3. Harvest Moon
    4. Ohio

    1. Name of Love
    2. Be the Rain
    3. Big Crime
    4. Long Walk Home

    1. Vampire Blues
    2. Cortez the Killer

    1. After the Gold Rush
    2. Like a Hurricane
    3. Silver Eagle

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    1. Thanks for updates LRR! Good to hear from you.

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