Neil Young is launching Pono , his high - resolution digital music service . Video to promote service features all - star lineup , including Bruce Springsteen . `` The simplest way to describe what we 've accomplished is that we 've liberated the music of the artist from the digital file and restored it to its original artistic quality -- as it was in the studio , '' Young wrote last year on Pono 's Facebook page . Young dislikes quality of music , MP3s ; he seeks music out from ` ` underwater , '' he says . The campaign already hit goal , to run through April 15 .
Neil Young is launching Pono , his high - resolution digital music service . Video to promote service features all - star lineup , including Bruce Springsteen . Young dislikes quality of music , MP3s ; he seeks music out from ` ` underwater , '' he says . The campaign already hit goal , to run through April 15 .