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11/14/2025

The Academy-Award winning animated short film will Premiere globally on the John Lennon YouTube channel on December 1st, 1pm NY time.

Donate to Warchild → https://www.warchild.org.uk/donate-war-is-over-film. Join us on 1 December at 6pm UK - 1pm NY - 11am LA - here on the John Lennon YouTu...

11/14/2025

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Your smartphone is powerful enough to capture the aurora if you know these key tricks. Here's what you need to know about capturing the northern lights on your phone.

11/14/2025

Listening Daily to Album Rock WXYG The GOAT, has been proven to keep us “FOREVER YOUNG”.
Not only great music. Scientifically proven.
Take your musical medicine daily. 🙂

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The Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963 out now: https://bobdylan.lnk.to/Bootleg18YD”Forever Young (Slow Version)” by Bob Dylan Listen...

11/14/2025

As we, who grew up listening to the greatest music from the Golden Age of Progressive Rock Radio, And continue to listen to The GOAT as we grow older, how nice it is to read that our music listening habit may be the answer to staying cognitively young.
Older adults who regularly listen to or play music may significantly lower their risk of dementia, according to a study of more than 10,800 people over age 70. Those who always listened to music showed a 39% lower risk of developing dementia and better memory performance, while those who played instruments had a 35% lower risk.
Combining both activities offered an even greater protective effect against cognitive decline. Researchers suggest that engaging with music could be an accessible, enjoyable strategy to help maintain brain health in later life.

Older adults who regularly listen to or play music may significantly lower their risk of dementia, according to a study of more than 10,800 people over age 70.

11/14/2025

Little Feat has announced plans for “The Last Farewell Tour,” marking the beginning of the end of their long-running era as one of rock’s most respected live acts. The tour will begin in April 2026 with shows in cities including Austin, Orlando, New Orleans, and Kansas City. Tickets go on sale November 7, with presales starting November 5.
The band, which has been performing in various lineups since its formation in 1969, says the tour’s title is tongue in cheek, a nod to their album The Last Record Album, but reflects a gradual retirement from extensive touring.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, keyboardist and founding member Bill Payne said, “Everybody and their brother is retiring now. But I’ll be honest, I resisted it at first. I’ll be 77 in March, and [guitarist] Fred Tackett is 80 and [bassist] Kenny [Gradney] will be 76 next year. But what’s the rush on farewelling this thing?”

Little Feat has announced plans for “The Last Farewell Tour,” marking the beginning of the end of their long-running era

11/13/2025

This Saturday's GOAT Guest DJ is a professor of WXYG's own "Professor of Rock", Al Neff. Mike Vadnie and Al met in the fall of 1981. Al was beginning his Mass Communication program at St. Cloud State University, the exact same time when Mike began his 33 year tenure teaching in the Mass Comm program. Later Mike became the chairperson of Al's graduate studies committee, and then Al's colleague when he began teaching the radio classes at SCSU. These days they just get to be friends and enjoy music together. Mike's passion in life has always been journalism. He started his writing/reporting career in Grand Forks North Dakota with the Grand Forks Herald, but then had the opportunity to guide the SCSU campus newspaper The Chronicle as part of his professorship. Indirectly Professor Vadnie guided the writing style of Al's Into the Music series with a focus on "word economy", but Mike has plenty to say and he'll have his chance this weekend. Mike's playlist will range from The Moody Blues to B.B. King, Bob Dylan to The Zombies, Billy Joel to It's a Beautiful Day and David Bowie. We hope you'll tune in to hear who gets to run the radio classroom this Saturday from NOON until 2:00 PM exclusively on Album Rock WXYG, The GOAT.
Remember, If you can’t Tune In and Turn On this Saturday, don’t fret, we always do a Replay on Sunday evening at 9:00 PM, right after the Long Play Feature with Al at 8:00.
You too can be a GOAT Guest DJ. Simply send us a letter telling us why you’d like to do it, and include a list of 25 songs that you think is your perfect playlist, stick it in an envelope, and send it to Al, here at the station. The GOAT Guest DJ Program, exclusively on Album Rock WXYG.

11/13/2025

Please join Kidd Manning on the GOAT this Sunday afternoon from NOON until 2:00 pm for our ALBUM ROCK WXYG - The GOAT’s, Kidd’s “NOT in the HALL” program. This week’s episode features more of the deserving bands and artists that have been overlooked by the Rock Hall of Fame. This week we’ll have a very special First hour devoted to Steve Winwood and all the different ways he’s been “Overlooked” by the Rock Hall. 🙂
They have disrespected him as a solo artist, which is ridiculous. Even worse, they have ignored his outstanding work with, “BLIND FAITH” and “THE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP”. This will be a show with lots of great music that will also include such diverse artists as Little Feat-Joe Walsh-and The J. Geils Band.
Remember this cool new edition to The GOAT lineup, every SUNDAY from Noon until 2:00 PM, exclusively On ALBUM ROCK-WXYG - The GOAT!

11/10/2025

Tune In this week for "INTO THE MUSIC" with Al Neff,
Monday through Saturday at 8:00 PM,
Exclusively on ALBUM ROCK WXYG The GOAT.
Monday & Tuesday : Grateful Dead
Wednesday : Jackson Browne
Thursday & Friday : Bob Marley
Saturday : Jeff Beck
We look forward to being your source for in-depth, carefully researched and professionally produced Audio Documentaries each week ONLY on WXYG, The GOAT! Listen Live or Stream it! You can also catch deep tracks and the very best of Album Rock from “Golden Age of Progressive Rock Radio”.

11/10/2025

Over 50 years later, and not only do I still love this movie, but still quote from it.
“You don’t have to have a point, to have a point.”
Here is the full version. Harry Nilsson wrote, sang, etc.
Enjoy.

Harry Nilsson's fable about a round-headed boy named Oblio (who lives in a village of pointy-headed people) and his quest to find his point.Music by Harry Ni...

11/10/2025

This year, Every Sunday Evening, Album Rock WXYG, The GOAT will feature a full album at 8:00 PM from the halcyon musical days of 1975. 1975 was one of the top Years in Album Rock history. Another year of tough choices every week. So many great ones to choose from.
We hope you’ll tune in at 8:00 PM, Sunday, November 16th for “Tonight's the Night”, the sixth studio album by Neil Young. It was recorded in August–September 1973, mostly on August 26, but its release was delayed until June 1975. The album is the third and final of the so-called "Ditch Trilogy" of albums that Young released following the major success of 1972's Harvest, whereupon the scope of his success and acclaim became so difficult for Young to handle that he subsequently experienced alienation from his music and career.
Written and recorded in 1973 shortly after the death of roadie Bruce Berry, Neil Young's second close associate to die of a he**in overdose in six months (the first was Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten), “Tonight's the Night” was Young's musical expression of grief, combined with his rejection of the stardom he had achieved in the late '60s and early '70s. The title track, performed twice, was a direct narrative about Berry: "Bruce Berry was a working man/He used to load that Econoline van." Whitten was heard singing "Come On Baby Let's Go Downtown," a live track recorded years earlier. Elsewhere, Young frequently referred to drug use and used phrases that might have described his friends, such as the chorus of "Tired Eyes," "He tried to do his best, but he could not." Performing with the remains of Crazy Horse, bassist Billy Talbot and drummer Ralph Molina, along with Nils Lofgren (guitar and piano) and Ben Keith (steel guitar), Young performed in the ragged manner familiar from Time Fades Away -- his voice was often hoarse and he strained to reach high notes, while the playing was loose, with mistakes and shifting tempos. But the style worked perfectly for the material, emphasizing the emotional tone of Young's mourning and contrasting with the polished sound of CSNY and Harvest that Young also disparaged. He remained unimpressed with his commercial success, noting in "World on a String," "The world on a string/Doesn't mean anything." In "Roll Another Number," he said he was "a million miles away/From that helicopter day" when he and CSN had played Woodstock. And in "Albuquerque," he said he had been "starvin' to be alone/Independent from the scene that I've known" and spoke of his desire to "find somewhere where they don't care who I am." Songs like "Speakin' Out" and "New Mama" seemed to find some hope in family life, but Tonight's the Night did not offer solutions to the personal and professional problems it posed. It was the work of a man trying to turn his torment into art and doing so unflinchingly. Depending on which story you believe, Reprise rejected it or Young withdrew it from its scheduled release at the start of 1974 after touring with the material in the U.S. and Europe. In 1975, after a massive CSNY tour, Young at the last minute dumped a newly recorded album and finally put Tonight's the Night out instead. Though it did not become one of his bigger commercial successes, the album was immediately recognized as a unique masterpiece by critics, and it has continued to be ranked as one of the greatest rock & roll albums ever made.
In the 1983 edition of The New Rolling Stone Record Guide, Dave Marsh wrote:
“The record chronicles the post-hippie, post-Vietnam demise of counterculture idealism, and a generation's long, slow trickle down the drain through drugs, violence, and twisted sexuality. This is Young's only conceptually cohesive record, and it's a great one.”
Chris Fallon of PopMatters said, "Tonight's the Night is that one rare record I will never tire of."
Tune In and Turn On Sunday, November 16th, and every Sunday evening at 8:00 PM for The GOAT'S "The Long Play with Al Neff”.