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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nHere’s your 2025 Milwaukee fall concert guide<\/p>\n
From Alabama Shakes to the Jonas Brothers, these are the 20 biggest concerts coming to Milwaukee this fall. Follow jsonline.com\/music for updates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/story-highlights> Neil Young<\/a> has long been one of the most politically outspoken musicians – nay, public figures – on the planet.<\/p>\n He sure as hell isn’t going to stop now.<\/p>\n Seven songs into his two-hour BMO Pavilion concert in Milwaukee Aug. 29, Young and his latest band the Chrome Hearts busted out a blistering new rocker they introduced to the world at a Chicago concert two nights prior, and made available as a download on his website on Aug. 29.<\/a> The song “Big Crime” didn’t name any names, but was a loud and clear condemnation of a certain sitting United States president and his administration and allies.<\/p>\n “There’s big crime in D.C. at the White House,” Young hollered over and over, a recurring refrain during the song where he also repeatedly cried out “time to blackout the system” and “no more great again.”<\/p>\n “Got to get the fascists out,” Young also sang over furious guitar. “Don’t want soldiers on our streets,” he continued, an apparent reference to President Donald Trump’s recent controversial action to deploy the National Guard in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n “No more money to the fascists,” he sang, “the billionaire fascists.”<\/p>\n In response to “Big Crime,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson suggested in a statement to Fox News Digital that Young was “tarnishing his legacy with cringe songs.”<\/p>\n The roaring fans at a near-capacity Milwaukee concert begged to differ. They wouldn’t expect anything else from Young, or want anything less. And even before this portion of the 17-song show, Young’s mood and music were frequently mad as hell, a tone likely treasured by fans likely to be appalled by our current sociopolitical situation.<\/p>\n During a performance of the night’s third song, 2003’s “Be The Rain” with Crazy Horse, Young frequently said lines like “Coroporate greed and chemicals are killing the land” into a mic that processed his voice through a megaphone that swung back and forth between two other small microphones while under a spotlight. The radical approach also added a spark to protest anthem “Sun Green” (from that same Crazy Horse album “Greendale”) with Young barking out lines like “There’s corruption on the highest floor” through that megaphone.<\/p>\n Young’s condemnation of racism during “Southern Man” was just as scathing in Milwaukee as it was when he first recorded the song in 1970. Performing the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young classic “Ohio” in Milwaukee, Young’s outrage was also just as pronounced, the passage of time from the Kent State shootings not softening in the slightest the pain and fury over an avoidable and unjust tragedy.<\/p>\n But fired up as Young was in Milwaukee, there were softer, mournful moments too, that brought heavy emotion to the evening’s outcries for progress, and in turn made them more urgent.<\/p>\n Singing 1987’s Crazy Horse song “Long Walk Home” sitting at a piano, peppering the song with tender harmonica, the great weight on Young’s shoulders was undeniable as he softly, somberly sang, “America, America, where have we gone?” There was also a compelling quiver in Young’s voice as he pleaded “You hold the future in your hand” singing “Name of Love.” And for his performance of 1977’s “Like a Hurricane,” Young repeated one specific line again and again, emphasizing the desperation of his yearning to be in a better place, to be “somewhere safer where the feeling stays.”<\/p>\n Young wasn’t always on a soapbox for his songs in Milwaukee. The performance included a gentle and smitten rendition of classic “Harvest Moon,” clearly one of the night’s biggest crowdpleasers, and a soft performance of signature “Old Man” that seems to keep getting better with age as Young approaches his 80th birthday. And there was also a lovely performance at the BMO Pavilion of 1999 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song “Looking Forward” that Young dedicated to his late collabortor David Crosby, bringing moving poignancy to its penultimate line: “Songs fill the air but there’s no singer there.”<\/p>\n But in keeping with the primary mood of the evening, Young and the Chrome Hearts (which included famed, 82-year-old Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section organist and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Spooner Oldham) closed the night with a rambunctious and rollicking rendition of “Rockin’ in the Free World.” A guitar-blasting Young and his band mates – Willie Nelson’s son Micah on guitar, Corey McCormick on bass, Anthony LoGerfo on drums – really let it rip for the finale, offering not one but two heart-racing fake endings.<\/p>\n And at the very beginning of the concert’s end, Young in Milwaukee passionately chanted some additional lyrics that would undoubtedly irritate the subject of his scorn in “Big Crime.”<\/p>\n “Take America back! Take America back! Take America back!”<\/p>\n This story was updated to include a photo.<\/em><\/p>\n Contact Piet Levy at (414) 223-5162 or\u00a0plevy@journalsentinel.com<\/a>. Follow him at\u00a0facebook.com\/PietLevyMJS<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.jsonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s your 2025 Milwaukee fall concert guide From Alabama Shakes to the Jonas Brothers, these are the 20 biggest concerts coming to Milwaukee this fall. Follow jsonline.com\/music for updates. 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Young speaks truth to power for songs like ‘Ohio,’ ‘Southern Man’<\/h2>\n
Young dedicates ‘Looking Forward’ to David Crosby<\/h2>\n
Five takeaways from Neil Young’s Milwaukee concert, including opener Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir<\/h2>\n
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Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts’ BMO Pavilion set list<\/h2>\n
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