Published today on the web. Will be in the 8/24 NYT Sunday Magazine with the headline "Sound and Fury".
Neil Young’s Lonely Quest to Save Music
He says low-quality streaming is hurting our songs and our brains. Is he right?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/magazine/neil-young-streaming-music.html
"When you hear real music, you get lost in it, he added, 'because it sounds like God.' Spotify doesn’t sound like God. No one thinks that. It sounds like a rotating electric fan that someone bought at a hardware store."