If you thought 2016 was a stellar year for music, 2017 kicks off with some fantastic new releases. Here are some you may have heard about, but also featured are some you not be aware of, but should also check out. […]
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Bob Dylan has been a part of the American musical consciousness since the early 1960s. In other words, a man now three-quarters of a century old has fascinated, irritated, entertained, intrigued, and inspired Americans for more than half a century. […]
Now that the holidays have come and gone, there’s a good chance you are thinking about what to purchase with those shiny new gift cards. Here are some of the best pop culture releases of the year, all of which […]
A grammatically challenged hacker gave us a jolt earlier this week with an attack on our site, but we were able to recover with a little help from our friends, and of course some good music and terrible banjo jokes […]
In Stockholm today, Patti Smith sang Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” (beginning at 1:02:56), and the United States Ambassador to Sweden, Azita Raji, presented Bob Dylan’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature on his behalf. Dylan’s […]
All the shouting about Dylan’s accepting, or not accepting, or liking, or not liking, or appreciating, or not appreciating, the Nobel Prize in Literature has finally faded. He appreciates it, and has said so; and though he will not be […]
I don’t go to these type of events very often, because I’m either at a concert or festival catching the music live, nor am I a very big book reader in general. But when I saw that Robbie Robertson was going […]
If you have any doubts about whether Bob Dylan deserved the Nobel Prize for Literature—or even if you don’t—pick up this newly issued fat book of his lyrics. Spanning more than half a century, it preserves an astonishingly large and […]
Forty years have passed since the the Band walked out on the stage on Thanksgiving for their farewell concert at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom. It was one of the landmark concerts in rock and roll history and, arguably, the greatest […]
I went to my first concert in the summer of 1973. It was a triple bill featuring Bachman Turner Overdrive, Bob Seger and Charlie Daniels. I wasn’t really a fan of any of the artists and would never have gone […]
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