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Bob Dylan's 'The Philosophy of Modern Song' book is a love letter to music — and, um, polygamy

Bob Dylan doesn't think much of the current state of songwriting or of contemporary pop music, two points underscored in his sometimes dizzying, sometimes confounding, but rarely less than absorbing new book, "The Philosophy of Modern Song." But he does think polygamist marriages are greatly underrated, about which more in…

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As I watch my friends’ kids grow up I regret having my own so late

My friend Mary messaged me recently to update me about her daughter. “Megan had her third gig tonight,” she wrote, “she’s made the decision to get certified as a yoga teacher. It’s just wild that my little girl is a grown-up now. So weird.”

Evening Standard

Barbra Streisand: ‘It’s the funniest thing to me that people still can’t get my name right’

In a rare interview discussing her music, the star details the highs and lows her early career, the difficult transition into pop and how she rose above jabs at her appearance

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Bob Dylan review – troubadour turns piano man for a sublime bluesy night

The octogenarian’s keyboard skills were to the fore as he and a superb band showcased his latest album, Rough and Rowdy Ways

The Guardian - UK

Phil Elverum of Mount Eerie’s Listening Diary: ‘Dave Matthews Band? Ouch’

The Anacortes, Washington-based DIY hero takes us through his week in listening, from a “sexually suggestive” EDM song by Pickle to a Nina Simone record picked out by a jazz-loving child

The Guardian - UK

Bob Dylan review – serene show goes straight to the heart

With a constant sense of dramatic ebb and flow, Dylan’s sound is as distinct as ever with audacious and inventive reimaginings of his recent songs

The Guardian - UK

Bob Dylan at the London Palladium review: the restless artist continues to blaze his own trail

The show marked the next step on a fascinating journey for the 81-year-old

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How Bob Dylan used the ancient practice of 'imitatio' to craft some of the most original songs of his time

Over the course of six decades, Bob Dylan steadily brought together popular music and poetic excellence. Yet the guardians of literary culture have only rarely accepted Dylan’s legitimacy.

The Conversation

Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner writes about music and life in new memoir

Throughout his five decades at Rolling Stone, the magazine’s co-founder Jann Wenner wrote hundreds of articles and spent time with some of the biggest names in music — Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon and Bob Dylan, to name a few — and politics, too, including presidents Bill…

The Orange County Register

Making the radical case for Sinéad O'Connor: She was right all along

Thirty years ago this month, Sinéad O'Connor tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II on "Saturday Night Live," effectively destroying her mainstream career with a single act of protest against the Catholic Church.

Los Angeles Times

What links David O Russell’s crime romp Amsterdam to Gloria Steinem and Bob Dylan?

Ahead of the shouty director’s latest film, we venture down the rabbit hole with Christian Bale, Julianne Moore and Spike Lee

The Guardian - UK

You need to watch the trippiest Tom Cruise sci-fi movie on Amazon Prime ASAP

Like a Bob Dylan album put to screen, Cameron Crowe's collaboration with Cruise impresses over 20 years later.

Inverse

The 100 greatest BBC music performances – ranked!

As the Beeb celebrates its centenary, we take a look at its most memorable pop moments, from the birth of grime to the first sightings of Bob Dylan and Bob Marley, plus TOTP goes Madchester and countless classic Peel sessions

The Guardian - UK

Sting's company made almost £200k a day thanks to lucrative back-catalogue sale

It was reported earlier this year that Sting had followed in the footsteps of Tina Turner and Bob Dylan and sold his music catalogue - including some of his biggest hits as a solo artist and from his time with The Police

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Evening Standard

Nobel Prize in Literature: When will the winner be announced and who are the favourites?

The winner will be given a shiny new gold medal, a diploma, and a cash prize

The Independent UK

Nobel Prize in Literature: Everything you need to know as 2022 Nobel Laureate to be announced

2022 prize is awarded this week

Liverpool Echo

The Liverpool folk songs inspired by the city's seafaring heritage

Folk songs about Liverpool have been recorded by Bob Dylan, The Beatles and The Dubliners

The Guardian - UK

The best recent poetry – review roundup

Days Like These by Brian Bilston; A Little Resurrection by Selina Nwulu; England’s Green by Zaffar Kunial; After Sylvia, edited by Ian Humphreys and Sarah Corbett; Journeys Across Breath by Stephen Watts

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Nicholas Goldberg: The Supreme Court will decide if Andy Warhol broke the law, 37 years after the fact

In 1981, rock 'n' roll photographer Lynn Goldsmith, who has worked with Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan, the Beatles and many others, stepped into her studio with the artist then known as Prince, put some purple eyeshadow and lip gloss on him to "accentuate his sensuality," and began shooting pictures with…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Todd Boehly’s Arrival Marks the End of Premier League’s Era of Quiet Americans

Bob Dylan once had a piece of advice for aspiring artists: write 10 songs a day, and then discard nine. In a way this also appears to be Todd Boehly’s approach to improving English football. He is just putting stuff out there, you see. Running ideas up the flagpole and…

MusicRadar

The 40 best acoustic guitar songs of all time

Electricity? Overrated… The finest acoustic-powered tracks in history

Chicago Tribune

Books for fall 2022: Our 65 titles for the season, histories, thrillers and horror, fiction and non. Get reading.

CHICAGO — You know how we don’t notice the leaves on the trees until September arrives, nature flips its switch and emeralds become purples, reds and golds? That’s not the worst metaphor for the new fall book season — the big season for publishers (eyeing awards and holiday sales), and…

The Guardian - UK

Laurie Anderson on Lou Reed’s lost demo tape: ‘He really wasn’t that interested in his past’

While sorting through her husband’s belongings, Anderson found a remarkable recording from 1965 that reveals the influence of Dylan, the seeds of the Velvet Underground – and a surprising sense of humour

The Guardian - UK

‘I was promiscuous – that’s murder on marriage’: Loudon Wainwright III on sex addiction, booze and family feuds

The singer-songwriter fought with his father, fell out with children Rufus and Martha and drove away his first wife before the honeymoon was even over. At 76, has he finally made some kind of peace with the world?

Manchester Evening News

Bob Dylan announces Manchester Apollo gig as part of sell-out world tour

The US folk and rock musician, 81, has added three new shows to the UK leg of the tour due to 'popular demand'

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