[GreenLantern]

I got Neil Young's new book Waging Heavy Peace for my birthday and just a few chapters in he is really upset about the quality of today's music. But not how you would think.. he is referring to the quality of the MP3 files we all download through iTunes or various other websites. Neil preaches that this quality is just horrible compared to Vinyl and he is on a mission to revamp the way that music is heard.. and he isn't alone.

Some articles about his new way of listening to music called 'Pono'.

If Neil Young has his way, the future will be Pono. The 66-year-old singer is planning to take on Apple's iTunes Music Store, launching a "high-resolution" downloads service and releasing his own line of portable players.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012...g-apple-itunes

Neil Young has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman to promote Pono, a high-quality digital music service that will launch next year.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/28/34...r-prototype-on

Aretha Franklin had never sounded so shocking, Flea decided last year, as "Respect" roared from the speakers of Neil Young's Cadillac Eldorado. Stunned by the song's clarity, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' bassist listened alongside bandmate Anthony Kiedis and producer Rick Rubin while Young showcased the power of Pono, his high-resolution music service designed to confront the compressed audio inferiority that MP3s offer.

The title of Waging Heavy Peace refers to the response that Young gave a friend who questioned whether the singer-songwriter was declaring war on Apple with his new service.

"I have consistently reached out to try to assist Apple with true audio quality, and I have even shared my high-resolution masters with them," Young writes, adding that he traded emails and phone calls with Steve Jobs about Pono before the tech king's death last October. Apple declined to comment on whether a collaborative or competitive relationship with Pono exists.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...rvice-20120927