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Bob Dylan

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2012

    Here Are Ten More Fake Bob Dylan Quotes

    Last week it was revealed that New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author Jonah Lehrer made up a few Bob Dylan quotes in his new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works. "It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you have something to say," Lehrer fake quotes Dylan about the writing o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: #10-6

    See also: *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, In Any Genre: #20-16 *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, In Any Genre: #15-11 *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, In Any Genre: #5-1 10. Guido D'Arezzo Simply put, the writings of Guido D'Arezzo (above) laid the foundations for Western music. This medieval theorist ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2011

    9/11 Changed Everything For The Music Industry

    ​By Chaz Kangas September 11th brought irrevocable change to our society, and the music industry was no exception. It was also a very strange time; both rap group The Coup and metal band Dream Theater released album covers with the World Trade Center in flames. Radio DJs across the country, m ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 19, 2011

    Still Blowing Out Candles in the Wind

    ​By Chaz Kangas September 11th brought irrevocable change to our society, and the music industry was no exception. It was also a very strange time; both rap group The Coup and metal band Dream Theater released album covers with the World Trade Center in flames. Radio DJs across the country, m ... More >>

  • Columns

    May 12, 2011

    Bob Dylan's L.A. Weekly Birthday Cake: Tangled Up in Frosting

    ​By Chaz Kangas September 11th brought irrevocable change to our society, and the music industry was no exception. It was also a very strange time; both rap group The Coup and metal band Dream Theater released album covers with the World Trade Center in flames. Radio DJs across the country, m ... More >>

  • Music

    May 12, 2011

    Bob Dylan Turns 70

    An L.A. Weekly birthday tribute

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Eating Bob Dylan (In Chocolate)

    Star ForemanBob Dylan birthday cake​ Where did we go when we wanted a likeness of Bob Dylan painted on a cake for the cover of this week's LA Weekly? To Kate Steffens, the DJ and chocolatier who specializes in rock 'n roll cakes via her baking enterprise behind Straight Outta Chocolate. From B ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    The Ultimate 420 Jam? The Beatles (Yup, the Actual Beatles) Covering Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 &35" (aka "Everybody Must Get Stoned")

    Macca likes the reefa​ We couldn't let 4/20 go by without playing you a little bit of what may be The Ultimate 420 Jam. It's The Beatles, with vocals by John Lennon, covering Bob Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 &35" (i.e., "Everybody Must Get Stoned"). Ok--it's not a full song (it's just a few ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    Bob Dylan's Sixties Muse (and the Girl Who Broke His Heart) Suze Rotolo Dead at 67

    ​Over the weekend we learned of the passing of Suze Rotolo, a talented New Yorker who might not have been a household name for music fans, but who had an enormous influence on contemporary pop music. Rotolo was Bob Dylan's girlfriend in the early 1960s and introduced the just-arrived-to-NYC M ... More >>

  • Music

    February 24, 2011

    The Column!: Stay Hungry (for Music)

    ​Over the weekend we learned of the passing of Suze Rotolo, a talented New Yorker who might not have been a household name for music fans, but who had an enormous influence on contemporary pop music. Rotolo was Bob Dylan's girlfriend in the early 1960s and introduced the just-arrived-to-NYC M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2010

    Today in WTF: Cyberpunk Remix of Bob Dylan's "Masters of War" Pops Up in Violent Videogame

    Bob Dylan, one pair of aviator goggles away from full Cyberpunk uniform​The "Dylan camp," the mysterious circle of consiglieri that makes sometimes baffling decisions about the hallowed backcatalog of Malibu resident Bob Dylan, has occasionally authorized remixes of Dylan's songs. A few years ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 7, 2010

    BEST ROLLING TOME

    Bob Dylan, one pair of aviator goggles away from full Cyberpunk uniform​The "Dylan camp," the mysterious circle of consiglieri that makes sometimes baffling decisions about the hallowed backcatalog of Malibu resident Bob Dylan, has occasionally authorized remixes of Dylan's songs. A few years ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    Amazing FREE Download: Bob Dylan's Demo for "Don't Think Twice It's Alright"!

    Do not disturb: Genius at work​Our old friend, Malibu resident Bob Dylan, will be releasing a collection of his youthful demos. Entitled The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos, the collection anthologizes Dylan's mid 1960s submissions to his publisher. It includes a number of early Dyla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    Bob Dylan Banned in China Because of Bjork

    LiuzhouLaowai​The Guardian reports that Malibu-resident Bob Dylan has had to cut his Asian tour short because the Chinese government prevented him from playing in Beijing and Shanghai. According to the UK paper (quoting Hong Kong's South China Morning Post): Dylan's planned tour of east Asia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    John Legend, Seal Snowed Out of White House Civil Rights Concert; Dylan, Smokey, Jennifer Hudson Make the Gig

    Tonight PBS will air "In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement," a concert honoring Black History Month that was taped at Obama's crib last Tuesday. As the WSJ reports, the show was supposed to have been taped yesterday but was hastily rescheduled beca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    Bob Dylan's 'Little Drummer Boy' Arrives, and It's a Beautiful Thing

    Malibu singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's new video is a glorious, honest, heartfelt vision, and the accompanying song -- the best Christmas song, as far as we're concerned -- is beautiful. Honestly, when word leaked that Malibu's finest was releasing a holiday album, we scratched our head, rolled our ey ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    Bob Dylan at the Palladium, Night Three: Hollywood Swinging

    Bob Dylan & His Band at the Hollywood Palladium, Thursday, October 15 After the unexpectedly smooth vocal performances and the many sublime moments at the first two shows of Bob Dylan's three-night stand at the Hollywood Palladium, it's understandable and perhaps inevitable that there would be a s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2009

    Bob Dylan at the Palladium, Night One: A Change is Gonna Come

    By Falling James "For years, they had me locked in a cage/Then they threw me onto the stage," Bob Dylan once sang/confessed/bragged/warned. "Some things just last longer than you thought they would." It's impressive that Bob Dylan is still touring heavily at the age of 68, but what's really amazin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2009

    Bob Dylan at the Palladium, Night Two (Collect Them All!)

    Click here to read Falling James' review of Dylan's first of three shows at the Palladium. Like a snowflake, each Bob Dylan concert is special. No two are alike, in part because he changes the set list at every show. At Wednesday's gig, the second of three consecutive nights in Hollywood this week ... More >>

  • LA Life

    May 28, 2009

    Seven John Smiths, a Bob and a Bamford

    What to do in L.A., May 29-June 4

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2009

    Sony Releases New Bob Dylan Track from Forthcoming Album -- As a Free MP3 (!)

    Bob Dylan in his yoot: This fella might have a future, based on his new MP3 Wow. Sony. Offering a free MP3 of its marquee artist, Bob Dylan. As in: a free download of one of his new songs. Great thinking. This kind of outside-the-box strategy might just break this Dylan guy to a larger audience.

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    Poor Bob Dylan and His Malibu Outhouse Debacle

    Until yesterday, the most common keywords on Google linked to Bob Dylan were probably words like folk singer, blues, and songwriter. Now the words are "poo," "defecation" (New York Magazine)," "crap" (TMZ), "stinky" (Hollywood Rag), and "stank" (Celebitchy).One thing the non-Malibu crowd should reme ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 20, 2008

    Thinguma-Bobs: A Dylan Exhibit

    Until yesterday, the most common keywords on Google linked to Bob Dylan were probably words like folk singer, blues, and songwriter. Now the words are "poo," "defecation" (New York Magazine)," "crap" (TMZ), "stinky" (Hollywood Rag), and "stank" (Celebitchy).One thing the non-Malibu crowd should reme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2008

    Movie money vs. music money. Also, more evidence of why Dylan rules.

    Glenn Hansard on the prospect of moving to LA post-Oscar: "Everybody just assumed we were going to move to Hollywood, and next year try to get another one. Dude, this is once in a lifetime. I'm going straight back to making music after this."

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    Look Back

    Glenn Hansard on the prospect of moving to LA post-Oscar: "Everybody just assumed we were going to move to Hollywood, and next year try to get another one. Dude, this is once in a lifetime. I'm going straight back to making music after this."

  • Film+TV

    November 22, 2007

    Dylan by Dylan

    Revisiting the music icon’s pre–I’m Not There filmography

  • Music

    November 22, 2007

    Bob Dylan’s Most Mysterious Recording

    Inside the elusive history of "I'm Not There"

  • Film+TV

    November 22, 2007

    I’m Not There: Tackling Pop Culture’s Greatest Enigma

    One of us must know

  • Film+TV

    September 20, 2007

    So Close, and Yet So Far

    The intimate pleasures and necessary detachments of Toronto 2007

  • Music

    March 1, 2007

    Sales Go Soft. Shins Go Limp. Rock Critics Go Limper.

    The intimate pleasures and necessary detachments of Toronto 2007

  • Music

    September 7, 2006

    Dylan Goes Gay for Guillen

    Eternal collective consciousness holds breath

  • Film+TV

    August 17, 2006

    Mods & Rockers 2006

    Eternal collective consciousness holds breath

  • Columns

    May 4, 2006

    The Band Played On

    Eternal collective consciousness holds breath

  • Columns

    April 13, 2006

    A Common Man, Once More

    Eternal collective consciousness holds breath

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2006

    No cartooning today

    This is the view from the balcony of an apartment that me and my wife had in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, before we were married, when I was in a band and she was in grad school.  I was unemployed most of the time and working on a novel largely comprised of the word "fuck" while listening t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2006

    TiVo Top 10

    The year in good TV

  • Art+Books

    December 22, 2005

    The Coffee Table

    All things bright and beautiful

  • Music

    March 31, 2005

    Tender-Fried Juicy Love Bits

    All things bright and beautiful

  • Music

    October 21, 2004

    Politically 4th Street

    All things bright and beautiful

  • Art+Books

    October 21, 2004

    The Music of Words

    Bob Dylan on . . . Bob Dylan

  • Music

    October 31, 2002

    The Defiant Ones

    Bob Dylan on . . . Bob Dylan

  • News

    June 20, 2002

    Paul Williams, Subjective Artist

    Bob Dylan on . . . Bob Dylan

  • Music

    April 25, 2002

    Up a Creek

    The Band that rings like a bell

  • Music

    December 6, 2001

    Hungry Heart

    Dan Bern’s hometown of the world

  • Music

    October 4, 2001

    From the Head of the Mule

    Jewels, binoculars, Bob Dylan

  • Art+Books

    May 24, 2001

    Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man! This Is the Second Time I’ve Seen You!

    Jewels, binoculars, Bob Dylan

  • Art+Books

    May 24, 2001

    Man Out of Time

    Bob Dylan at 60

  • Film+TV

    October 22, 1998

    Stranger, in a Strange Land

    Dylan's visions, Lequizamo's Freak, Debbie Reynolds among the demons, Africans in America

  • Film+TV

    June 18, 1998

    Film

    Dylan's visions, Lequizamo's Freak, Debbie Reynolds among the demons, Africans in America

  • Film+TV

    June 18, 1998

    Don't Look Back

    Dylan's visions, Lequizamo's Freak, Debbie Reynolds among the demons, Africans in America

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