What Might Neil Young's 2026 Bring Us?

 LOVE EARTH 2026 UK/EU TOUR Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts 

You ask, "so what might Neil Young's 2026 bring?"

Good question and the big ticket item is that Neil Young and The Chrome Hearts that kicks off the LOVE EARTH 2026 UK/EU TOUR on June 19, 2026 in Manchester, England.

Additionally, a comment by Dionys whets the appetite with expectations: 

• Mirror Ball Live  (w/ Pearl Jam)
• Love Earth World Tour 2024 double album
• Ben Keith's Seven Gates / Christmas at the Ranch re-release
• Gulf of Mexico/U.S. tour w/ The Chrome Hearts
• Tennessee (The Int’l Harvesters rediscovered 1985 tape)  
• Homefires (thanks dinkers!)

Gulf of Mexico/U.S. tour w/ The Chrome Hearts

via Greedy Hand Store

Thanks for the "informed speculation" Dionys. That pretty well tracks what we're seeing as well.  Obviously, all eyes on tour planning.

So what did we miss?

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Neil Young: "ICE cold here in America"

Our Brother Alan in Seattle: Take America Back - January 10
Per the latest Neil Young Archives posting, Neil Young says it's "ICE cold here in America."

"While looking out the window, I see the biggest mess I've ever witnessed, right here in the United States, this great country I have believed in for decades. It's right here. Right now.

Wake up people! Today The USA is a disaster. Donald Trump is destroying America bit by bit with his staff of wannabes, people with no experience or talent, closet alcoholic wife beaters, inexperienced leaders who only know how to lie to keep favor with the Trump falseness so they can hold their unearned positions in his inept government, a Congress full of Republicans acting like idiots with no conscience… Yes. He has divided us. How did we elect these creeps who have no spine, no values, no conscience, no way to save the USA.

We need to take Trump at his word. Make America Great Again. It won’t be easy while he is trying to turn our cites into battlegrounds so he can cancel our elections with marshal law and escape all accountability.

Something has to change this. We know what to do. Rise up. Peacefully in millions. Too many innocent people are dying.

It’s ICE cold here in America. There was no ICE before Trump. No soldiers in the streets before Trump. Every move he makes is to build instability so he can stay in power.

He knows nothing about love. He does not know who you are. Use your love of life, your love of one another, your love of children, yours and theirs and ours. Peacefully. Now."

ny 

More on  Neil Young's frustration @ NEW VIDEO: "as time explodes" by Neil Young.

"as time explodes"

via NeilYoungArchives.com

"What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground?" or ... What Really Happened at Kent State?

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NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES TIMELINE CONCERT OF THE MOMENT: Sydney, Australia - 1989

Poster: Neil Young w/ The Lost DogsSydney, Australia - 1989
(image via Sugar Mountain)

A new Timeline Concert of the Moment is now streaming on Neil Young Archives. (Thanks Andrew!) 

The latest Timeline Concert is Neil Young w/ The Lost Dogs @ Entertainment Centre, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia on April 18, 1989. The concert features an acoustic Ordinary People. 

More on Neil Young Archives Timeline Concerts.

Also, see Neil Young Archives: Complete Listing of "Timeline Concerts of the Week" + UPDATE: NYA Subscriber News.

Here is a listing of all of the Neil Young concerts on the NYA Timeline.

Also, see Timeline Concert Highlights on Neil Young Archives | Only Castles Burning | SubStack.

 Neil Young Archives Timeline Concerts 

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Yet Another New Year, And With More Good News for Neil Young Fans

Our Man  + Finding The Cost Of Freedom Is Steep
Happy New Year everyone!

As we do here at Thrasher's Wheat from time to time, we look back as we look ahead. Because you know how time fades away, right?

And in looking back, we go all the way back to the New Year of 2007, where we published a letter from Caryn which really moved us.  (See  Find The Cost Of Freedom: A New Year). We won't try and summarize here because the entire letter needs to be read in full context, but basically a story of going from war time despair to peaceful hope.

And in these times, we're hearing about folks trying to escape angry despair to a more positive, peaceful state of being in their life.

And as parts of our EARTH teeter along between what some consider a mix of World War 3 and Civil War 2.0, we try and bring a little joy and light.

All of which to say that 2026 has been on our mind for a very, very long time.  

2026 marks the 30th Anniversary of Thrasher’s Wheat. 5 years ago in 2021, Neil Young Archives helped us celebrate by publishing a "HAPPY 25th Anniversary Thrasher’s Wheat!" article on the front top of Times-Contrarian. 

 "HAPPY 25th Anniversary Thrasher’s Wheat!" | Neil Young Archives

Per  "HAPPY 25th Anniversary Thrasher’s Wheat!" | Neil Young Archives:

"Thanks for being there.

We at NYA greatly appreciate your members and their enthusiasm over the years. it will be a great period for us all over the next years as well. Lots more music coming. Our biggest concern is that NYA Volume 3 is so big!

Lots of love and thanks to TW and the people who love it and support it."

To say the thrashers were humbled and honored would be a vast under statement.

Just like Willie Nelson's old guitar Trigger -- while we may be worn and battered -- we will survive and thrive no matter what forces we encounter.

Willie Nelson's  guitar "Trigger"

So what shall we do for our 30th Anniversary here at Thrasher’s Wheat?

We do want to give back to the community and are looking seriously at our options.  We do hope to announce our anniversary plans in the not too distant future.

As a reminder, back in 2016, we celebrated our 20th anniversary with the incredibly popular tie dye shirt.

Thrasher's Wheat 20th Anniversary: 1996 - 2016
Design by Silver Moon Art & Design
(Click photo to enlarge)

 

It has been a long, long road since 1996 and we would like to make 2026 a year of celebration. A celebration maybe not so much of our little blog website or even of Neil Young. No, a celebration of this wonderful little community we joined back in 1993 that eventually became known as "The force of Rust".

Photo by TW Tour & Merch Manager RotM: Hounds That Howell

(folks, let your freak flags fly!) 

The Rust community is -- without a shred of doubt -- the tightest and coolest group of music fans running in history... online or offline. (We'd be happy to have that discussion separately below in comments.)

Rusties @ The Healing Pole & Medicine Teepee
Shoreline: 2015 International Rust Fest Bridge Concerts 

Rust@yahoo 

To say that the power of Rust changed our lives would be a vast over under statement. That said, to some degree, it became our mantra to stay "rustie" at all times. To be the rust is to know the rust. And rusties understand that statement. 

Or as we sometimes say, "It's a rustie thing and you wouldn't understand".

What many may not realize, is that Thrasher's Wheat continues to be the 2nd longest continuously running website in the history of the Internet dedicated to a single topic, operating under the same "original management" and "original mission".

Period. Full stop.

Longer than eBay, Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc. Even before New York Times or Washington Post websites were launched, or about the same time. And we welcome any challenge to the above statement and will gladly correct. :)

Logo design by
Geoff Moore - Silver Moon Graphics

At this point, we could run down an amazing amount of TW post highlights. The concert reviews. The photos. The videos. The ecstasies and agonies. And so on. 

But at the moment, we just want to share the joy of Neil and the Rust community.

Telluride, Colorado, October 1, 2016

Photo by Expecting To Fly

So here's what we're thinking. Back in 2016 -- thanks to our dear friend Geoff, -- we came up with a Thrasher's Wheat 20th Anniversary t-shirt with which to celebrate.

Sandy & Tami
The Arkansas Girls

But now in honor of Thrasher's Wheat Celebrates 30th Anniversary: 1996 - 2026, we will be embarking on a new and exciting adventure.

w/ Geoff in Telluride 2016 

 

Stay tuned in coming weeks for a very major announcement in the next chapter of the evolution of 21st Century Thrasher's Wheat!

Thrasher's Wheat Radio Supporters Go To Europe

Thanks for readin' & Keep on rockin'!
thrasher & thrashette
#CrazyHorse4HoF  

Our little box at the top of the stairs

thrashers @ TW HQ w/ NYA Vol#2

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NEIL YOUNG ARCHIVES TIMELINE CONCERT OF THE MOMENT: Red Rocks, Colorado - 1989

Neil Young @

Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Colorado - September 09, 1989

(image via Sugar Mountain)

A new Timeline Concert of the Moment is now streaming on Neil Young Archives.  (Thanks the Road Dawg!) 

The latest Timeline Concert is Neil Young @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Colorado on September 09, 1989. The concert -- paradoxically -- is "solo" acoustic  along with Frank Sampedro and Ben Keith.

(image via Sugar Mountain)

For more on  Neil Young concerts @ Red Rocks, see Neil Young + Promise of the Real @ Morrison, CO, July 8, 2015.

Neil Young + Promise of the Real

Morrison, CO, July 8, 2015
Photos by thrashette 

More on Neil Young Archives Timeline Concerts.

Also, see Neil Young Archives: Complete Listing of "Timeline Concerts of the Week" + UPDATE: NYA Subscriber News.

Here is a listing of all of the Neil Young concerts on the NYA Timeline.

Also, see Timeline Concert Highlights on Neil Young Archives | Only Castles Burning | SubStack.

TIMELINE CONCERT OF THE MOMENT | NYA  

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