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Neil Young to release entire recording archive for free

LOS ANGELES — Neil Young will open his vast archive of music for anyone to listen to online for free next month.

The 72-year- old Canadian rocker has announced on Facebook that his archive will open on Dec. 1, the same day his new album “The Visitor” is released. Young promises that the free archive will allow fans to “visit and experience every song I have ever released in the highest quality your machine will allow.”

A note on the archive site says users will be able to view all of his released albums and ones currently in production. The archive dates to 1963, when Young made his first recording in Canada.

“The Visitor” will be Young’s second studio album recorded with Lukas Nelson’s band, Promise of the Real.

Comedy or not, ‘Get Out’ is a unique Oscar contender

NEW YORK — The movie year seems destined to conclude the way it essentially began: With everybody talking about “Get Out.”

Jordan Peele’s horror sensation is again the subject of debate after it was reported that Universal Pictures has submitted the film for Golden Globes consideration as a comedy, rather than a drama. The film’s classification will ultimately reside with the Globes, but the controversy shows how “Get Out” is already challenging the conventions of Hollywood’s prestige movie season.

Peele, himself, has showed no desire to quell the backlash, only to slyly prod it. He calls his race-savvy social satire “a documentary.” Appearing on “The Late Show” on Wednesday night, Peele stuck with that label, calling his movie “truth.”