New York, NY (Top40 Charts) NEIL YOUNG is pleased to announce the official launch of the
Neil Young Archives (NYA) revolutionary website and Hi-Res mobile app (available on iPhone now and Android soon) as a membership service. A first-of-its-kind musician's website that offers the finest audio quality available anywhere online. The
Neil Young Archives website and app will be launched as both a limited free subscription and a $1.99 per month/$19.99 per year unlimited subscription.
"I want to share with you that I have made a place for my music to live," Young said of the NYA in a recent post. "It will also be the place where I live on the web."
Created over the course of years by Young and a small team (with support from Warner Bros. Records), the NYA is the only interactive and in-depth website of its kind in that it is a dedicated and comprehensive digital archival service, the scope of which will fascinate all those who log onto it. NYA has operated since last December in beta mode and received an overwhelming 1.2 million visitors (and over 22 million page views).
The Guardian calls NYA, "A revolution in fandom" and "The first groundbreaking yoking of technology to archival content in more than 30 years." Click HERE to read the complete story.
Parts of the site will remain free to all users, while paid members will be able to access "The Unlimited
Neil Young Archives" and its host of services, including early access to "Best Seats in the House" for Neil Young's upcoming shows, all records in hi-res, "surprise live streams from the Hearse Theatre," movies, videos, art work, The Times- Contrarian daily newspaper, special offers on merchandise, hi-res downloads at low res prices, and much more.
"I wanted a place where my fans and I could hear my music from the very beginning, from the high school bands I was in, to my latest recordings - audio and visual," Young says. "I wanted to be able to hear it all, all the sound I heard when I made those records and poured my heart and soul into every one, the good and the bad, the great and the 'should be gone.' They all live on NYA."
Young's passion for audio is well known, and he's applied his ear for detail to the sonic aspect of NYA with the utmost care. The site streams its music using Xstream by NYA, developed by Young with OraStream technology. It's capable of streaming at the original quality of master recordings, higher than other streaming services at 192 kHz/24 bit.
"If you want to hear my music and would like to have the option to listen to it with all the depth and glory of high resolution, it will be there," Young says. "All my new records can be heard there first, before they get released anywhere else. New, unreleased albums from the archives and old, unreleased albums from the archives will always be heard there first. Our machine is a monster."
Unlimited Subscription: $1.99/month, $19.99/year
