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Joni Mitchell has quietly followed Neil Young and put her music back on Spotify. Unlike Young, there was no official statement from Mitchell or her camp announcing or explaining the decision. Rather, it was fans on social media who noticed her catalog was back and spread with the news with all-caps fervor: “JONI MITCHELL MUSIC BACK ON SPOTIFY THIS IS NOT A DRILL,” tweeted one user.   A rep for Mitchell did not immediately return Rolling Stone’s request for comment. Mitchell pulled her music from the…

Joni Mitchell’s music has returned to Spotify more than two years after she left the streaming platform in solidarity with Neil Young’s protest over it hosting anti-vax content.Mitchell made no comment about the return of her music, though the move comes a week after Young said he was putting his music back on Spotify after the platform ended its exclusivity deal with Joe Rogan’s podcast, which Young – along with 270 scientists and healthcare professionals – accused of spreading misinformation about Covid vaccines.Since…

From being the folksy best friend of anyone who was anything in the West Coast music scene, Joni Mitchell has gradually and unevenly developed into a songwriter of considerable stature. Her sixth and best album to date, Court and Spark (Asylum), is currently the top seller in America, which is mildly surprising: it is both too solemn and too good for that.Like the rest of her West Coast singer-songwriter mates (from Graham Nash through to Jackson Browne) she bases her songs around herself, her worries and experiences.…

Joni Mitchell will have a lot of company when she takes the stage on Sunday, Feb. 4, for her first-ever Grammy Awards performance. Her friend and collaborator Brandi Carlile will be performing alongside her, as will Jacob Collier, Allison Russell, Sista Strings, Lucius, and Blake Mills, according to executive producer Raj Kapoor. As for what they’ll be performing? “It will be a song that I think everybody knows,” Kapoor tells our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, “and if you are a Joni Mitchell fan, it’s the song that…

Joni Mitchell has announced her first Los Angeles concert in 24 years.The beloved Canadian singer-songwriter, who became one of L.A.’s defining voices over a long career in folk and jazz, will headline the Hollywood Bowl on Oct. 19. The set will revisit the format of 80-year-old Mitchell’s “Joni Jam” performance, with collaborator Brandi Carlile, at Washington’s Gorge Amphitheatre last year. That band included Carlile, Annie Lennox, Sarah McLachlan, Marcus Mumford, Wynonna Judd and others.The Times’ Mikael Wood described…

The singer-songwriter joined Brandi Carlile onstage at the same venue back in October If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Joni Mitchell is returning to one of the most iconic venues in the U.S. On Tuesday, the legendary musician — who will perform at the Grammys this weekend — announced that she’ll be playing the Hollywood Bowl on Oct. 19 this year. “The legendary Joni Mitchell…

Nine-time Grammy winner Joni Mitchell will perform at the 2024 Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy announced Sunday. The appearance will be Mitchell’s first-ever performance at the ceremony. She is also attending the awards show as a nominee for best folk album for Joni Mitchell At Newport . Previously announced Grammy performers include Burna Boy, Luke Combs, Billie Eilish, Billy Joel, Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, Travis Scott and U2. Mitchell, 80, received a Recording Academy lifetime…

Joni Mitchell will perform at next week’s Grammy Awards, organizers announced Sunday, marking the beloved singer-songwriter’s first performance at music’s highest-profile awards show and her latest step in a public comeback after a debilitating brain aneurysm in 2015.Mitchell, 80, is nominated for best folk album at the Feb. 4 ceremony. “Joni Mitchell at Newport” is a live recording of a surprise gig she played at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival.The singer’s first full concert since her aneurysm, the Newport set grew…

Nine-time Grammy winner and Lifetime Achievement Award recipient had never performed on Music's Biggest Night Joni Mitchell will perform on the Grammy stage for the first time in her legendary career at the 2024 award show, taking place Sunday, February 4 at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena. The singer-songwriter, who is nominated for Best Folk Album for Joni Mitchell at Newport, previously received the Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. However, Mitchell has never performed…

On a good morning, Brittany Howard wakes up and decides who she wants to be. She will come up with a character, select clothes to match and pick some corresponding music. Today, clutching her recently neutered puppy, Wilma, the character seems to be “teacher who lives on the French Riviera”: she’s in white trousers, a white top and a blue work shirt with a hat which says Women Love Me, Fish Fear Me. Another recent character was a tractor-driving fan of the country singer Luke Bryan. “I had my camo Crocs on and…