Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan has sold his entire songwriting catalogue to Universal Music Publishing Group. And while the price is undisclosed, The New York Times reports it’s somewhere around the $300 million mark. Bob Dylan has owned the copyright to nearly all of his works for the duration of his career. Now though, he’s sold the rights […]
Rolling Stone has published a new edition of their Top 500 Albums of All-Time list. The most notable difference between it and its original 2003 version is a significant increase in the amount of records by women and people of colour in its top spots. The list’s original top five included three albums by The Beatles alone, […]
It is mind-blowing how music has thrived in 2020. Despite everything going on in the world – the pandemic, the halt of the live music industry and the worldwide call for the end of racism in all its ugly forms – musicians have continued to put out heartwarming and heartbreaking works of art. We’ve seen […]
Bob Dylan fans are a peculiar breed. As Joan Baez explains in Martin Scorsese’s No Direction Home documentary, for those who get it, the Dylan obsession “goes way, way deep.” But in recent decades, this depth of adoration has seen Dylan-philes seek to highlight greatness in some fairly ordinary source material. The 2010s consisted of […]
Rough and Rowdy Ways, Bob Dylan‘s first album of new material in eight years, will be released tomorrow – Friday, 19th June. Now, it’s been revealed that Fiona Apple – still fresh off releasing her critically acclaimed Fetch the Bolt Cutters – will feature on the album. Apple is listed as an additional musician in the liner notes […]
Back in 1969 Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash spent a couple of days together in Columbia Studios in Nashville. Obviously it’s an historic get-together, but most of it has as of yet, gone unreleased. But now, the session is on its way to us. As part of Bob Dylan’s 15th instalment of his Bootleg Series, […]
Last weekend, veteran songwriters Bob Dylan and Neil Young co-headlined a show together at Nowlan Park in Kilkenny, Ireland. Towards the end of the evening, the pair took to the stage together for the first since 1994. Dylan and Young performed ‘Will the Circle Be Unbroken’, a traditional Christian hymn written in 1907 that Dylan […]
Bob Dylan is famously a man of few words, but last night he gave a rare statement regarding a longstanding policy he’s had at his concerts for years: phones recording his performance. While performing in Vienna last night, Dylan halted his performance of ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’ after just one verse to reprimand people taking […]
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