Opening in select theatres across the country today (July 25th) is Neil Young's politically-charged concert documentary, CSNY: Deja Vu.

The film, which Young directed, was filmed in 2006 as Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young toured behind Young's heavily anti-Bush album Living With War.

Young says that in the film, he went the extra distance to showcase the fans that don't agree with the band's liberal views concerning the state of the nation following 9/11: "So we actually used a greater percentage of the negatives than we did of the positives that we had on hand, to make it so that it was closer to 50-50. And I think that if you look at it from that perspective, and check out the reviews we used -- the ones we chose to use -- and the interviews that we chose to use, we tried to be balanced. I don't want to use the term 'fair and balanced,' it's a little over-used (laughs)."

Young went on to say that he wasn't interested in alienating or embarrassing anyone who appeared in the film, which he feels, if nothing else, promotes toleration: "You know, we've got a lot of Democrats and Republicans in our audience, and we don't want to abuse them because of their political beliefs, whether it's one way or the other. We are who we are, but you know, you gotta respect people that disagree with you. That hopefully is what this country is based on."

Neil Young will be on the road in Europe throughout August. His next U.S. performance will be on September 20th in Mansfield, Massachusetts at the Farm Aid concert.

Crosby, Stills, & Nash perform tonight (July 25th) at Boston's Bank Of America Pavilion.

CSNY: Deja Vu will be showing at the following theaters:

Atlanta, GA - Midtown Art Cinemas 8
Cambridge, MA - Kendall Square Cinema
Chicago, IL - Landmark's Century Centre Cinema
Denver, CO - Mayan Theatre
Bloomfield Hills, MI - Maple Art Theatre
Los Angeles, CA - The Landmark
San Diego, CA - Hillcrest Cinemas
La Jolla, CA - La Jolla Village Cinemas
Minneapolis, MN - Uptown Theatre
New York, NY - Sunshine Cinema
Philadelphia, PA - Ritz at the Bourse
San Francisco, CA - Embarcadero Center Cinema
Santa Cruz, CA - Nickelodeon Theatres
Berkeley, CA - Shattuck Cinemas
Seattle, WA - Egyptian Theatre
Washington, DC - E Street Cinema
For more information, go to csny-dejavu.com

 

Sheryl Crow says she will not be recording with or joining Fleetwood Mac, in spite of a flurry of press that claimed otherwise. "No, that was those Rumours -- to quote the album," she joked to AP Wednesday (July 23rd), in reference to Fleetwood Mac's 1977 hit album.

During a Grammy Foundation event that included a forum with Nashville college students, the 46-year-old singer/songwriter added, "I'm a huge fan and have a great relationship with Stevie (Nicks), and actually with all of them... I think their next album may be while I'm on the road. Hopefully in the future we'll have some kind of collaboration, but not at this time."

Her announcement last year that they might tour together came as a surprise to Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham. He told Billboard.com, "I think we were all surprised (Crow) was announcing to the world with such certainty. We have talked about bringing another woman into the scene to kind of give Stevie a sort of foil and shake it up a little bit. (Crow) was certainly a name that has come up. We'll have to see."

Original keyboardist/singer Christine McVie left the band about 10 years ago, leaving singer Stevie Nicks as the sole female in the band.

Crow has performed and recorded with Nicks.

Fleetwood Mac will be touring early next year.

Crow is currently on tour behind her Top 10 album Detours.

Stewart Copeland says that most fans don't realize how tremendous the machine propelling the Police on tour really is. The band is on the final leg of its world tour which wraps on August 7th, at New York City's Madison Square Garden.

Copeland says that when an act as big as the Police hits the road, the band almost becomes yet another thing that needs to be lugged around: "The Police is this huge monster that we can't even control. It's this huge monster, this huge 100, 200-people crew. The trucks, the timing, the coordination, the synchronization of all these resources and people, require that pretty much every hour of my day is controlled to get me on stage for that show. And my body doesn't even belong to me anymore, it belongs to the Police, and I gotta deliver it to the stage in working order. And that's a lot of responsibility."

Plans are in the works for a live CD and DVD from the tour, which was shot and recorded during the band's stop in Buenos Aries. No release date has been set.

The Police perform tonight (July 25th) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Marcus Amphitheater.