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Factoids That Will Probably Surprise No One

Bob Dylan is the most-cited musician in judicial opinions with 26 quoted lines, according to an article on the uses and misuses of popular music in legal writing by Alex B. Long. Rounding out the top seven of Long's predictably boomer-rock-centric list: Paul Simon and/or Simon & Garfunkel, Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, the Grateful Dead (!), and Joni Mitchell. [NYT]

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In what I see as a pretty unsurprising development but the Times Of London sees as something that "contains much symbolic significance," Bob Dylan has endorsed Barack Obama's presidential candidacy. "Well, you know right now America is in a state of upheaval," he told the Times. "Poverty is demoralizing. You can't expect people to have the virtue of purity when they are poor. But we've got this guy out there now who is redefining the nature of politics from the ground up...Barack Obama. He's redefining what a politician is, so we'll have to see how things play out. Am I hopeful? Yes, I'm hopeful that things might change. Some things are going to have to." [Times Online via RS]

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lineups

Bob Dylan Gives His Blessing To Another Store At The Mall

The latest entrant in the filled-to-the-brim summer festival lineup: The New American Music Union, an American Eagle-sponsored, Anthony Kiedis-curated show taking place in Pittsburgh on Aug. 8 and 9. The lineup is split between summer-fest stalwarts like Bob Dylan, Spoon, the Roots, and Black Mountain and a "battle of the bands" between 15 acts representing universities around the country. The winning band gets a whole day in a recording studio on AE's dime, which I guess we're supposed to take as a sign that their "cheaper than Abercrombie" aesthetic isn't really pulling in the shoppers as much as it did during the housing boom. (I'm happy to see that my alma mater is representing with The French Horn Rebellion, who sound kind of like a grimier Pulsars and who have a remix of Shannon's "Let The Music Play" (!!!) on their MySpace page. Go Cats!) Full lineup after the jump. More »

9:15 AM on Thu May 15 2008
By Maura Johnston
2,498 views, 4 comments

Latest by n/a: @luciluce666: This is actually being held at a urban shopping center/office complex build on the site of an old steel mill. Gonna be interesting where they put the stage and how they will keep people from crashing the gate. more »

killed by hype

You Know Who Doesn't Suck? The Vines!

Poor Vines. All they wanted to do was entertain the good people with some nonsensical rockers and dreamy psychedelic bubblegum, and all they got was shit because Asperger's poster boy Craig Nicholls wasn't the new Kurt Cobain. This article uses them as the prime example of how excessive hype can crush a perfectly charming band (or Gay Dad) almost before they're out of the gate. In a last-ditch attempt to gain some sympathy for the Australian mushmouths, I'm going to compare their plight to a musician who suffered a similar excess of expectation before people wised up to his sillier, but still genuine pleasures: Donovan! More »

2:30 PM on Mon May 12 2008
By Anthony Miccio
1,240 views, 27 comments

Latest by MrStarhead: To add to the chorus, the Vines were absolutely, positively abysmal live, and I am convinced to this day that Nicholls was trying to piss off the audience intentionally. more »

at the movies

I'm Not There Is No All You Need Is Cash

This isn't the first time we've ragged on I'm Not There, Todd Haynes' all-star rumination on all things Dylan, but as it's just been released on DVD and I haven't seen much of a critical backlash, I figured its nose deserves another tweak. The New York Times felt Haynes threw "a Molotov cocktail through the facade of the Hollywood biopic factory" by willfully screwing with the specifics Dylan's career, but fictionalizing the life of a pop star for your own purposes is nothing new. In fact, there's a TV movie from the '70s that equally reveled in '60s iconography, while revealing a little more about the music itself and throwing in a bunch of jokes to boot. Maybe not taking their marvelous meta seriously is why The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash doesn't get the same boot-licking treatment I'm Not There is enjoying. More »

2:30 PM on Wed May 7 2008
By Anthony Miccio
1,246 views, 9 comments

Latest by Chris N.: "Every time there's a documentary on white music around here he claims he started it all." more »

sexy grandpas, every one

Virgin Fest Just Got A Whole Lot More Old

Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry and The Stooges have been added to the line-up for Baltimore's Virgin Fest, to be held on August 9-10. The Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails and Stone Temple Pilots have already been announced as headliners, so it looks like new parents as well as new grandparents will have acts they enjoy. For the kids, there's Paramore and Lil Wayne, and a dance tent featuring Moby, Underworld and Richie Hawtin! Actually, that dance tent's probably for the parents too. Full line up after the jump. More »

10:45 AM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Anthony Miccio
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Latest by ObtuseIntolerant: Yes, this is awesome. Really just for a a chance to go with my mother to see Bob & Iggy and Kanye again on my break from an otherwise nonstop-Jonas-Brothers summer tour schedule. more »

adaptations

Bob Dylan Song Becomes Children's Book

"Forever Young," Bob Dylan's 25-year-old ode to his offspring, will be turned into a children's book by illustrator Paul Rogers this fall. It's a rather sappy and obvious choice, though I'm curious what image is going to go with "May you have a strong foundation, when the winds of changes shift." While anything good enough for Jakob Dylan is good enough for anyone else's kid, I'd be much more interested in Reading Rainbow getting their hands on a pictoral representation of "Ballad Of A Thin Man." More »

12:00 PM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Anthony Miccio
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Latest by Charles A. Hohman: @solanine: Hell, it's easy to forget Rod Stewart used to be awesome. But he used to be. more »

Bob Dylan was awarded a "special citation" from the Pulitzer Prize committee today, only the 38th person to receive such an honor in the 92-year history of the prize. "With Dylan we are recognizing a body of work," prize administrator Sig Gissler told the Columbia Spectator. "The Citation also reflects the effort of the Board over the last four years to broaden the scope of the music prize," which was given to Bang On A Can founder David Lang this year and which discovered the genre of jazz sometime around 1996. At this rate, Radiohead will win the music Pulitzer by 2045! If the awards still exist, that is. [Columbia Spectator]

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vhs or beta?

"I'm Not There" Puts Together Bob Dylan's Pieces

Ed. note: It's time for another installment of "VHS Or Beta?", where Andy Beta looks at the music behind the movies—from preserved-by-Criterion classics to completely inane summer blockbusters. In this installment, he checks out Todd Haynes' look at Bob Dylan's multiple personalities, I'm Not There. More »

12:35 PM on Fri Nov 9 2007
By Andy Beta
1,191 views, 4 comments

directorial debuts

Bob Dylan's Fans Are Not Ready For Their Close-Up

Bob Dylan's never really cared much about being "timely," but it's hard to argue with Britain's Independent that there's something "a bit rich" about Mr. Zimmerman commissioning a video for "Like A Rolling Stone" four decades after the fact. We might even say "kinda sad" or "pretty wack," especially because the "Rolling Stone" video is being built on the cheapskate concept of "a viral marketing campaign and a website urging his fans to submit to YouTube footage of themselves," after which "the most innovative entries will then be edited together." Judging by the lackluster response so far, Dylan's fans might agree. More »

4:50 PM on Thu Nov 1 2007
By jharv
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Latest by n/a: I'm 25 and capable of using YouTube, but I agree that this is stupid. It seems to be a desperate attempt to seem relevant, which is completely unnecessary for Dylan. I'm sick of all the overpublicizing and overhyping. He doesn't more »

keeping it real

Rockers Still Fretting Over Being Called "Sellouts," Even As They Have Advertisers Nervous

So long as rockers old and new are worried about the public's perception, no one's going to go broke writing trend pieces about "selling out." This New York Times article looking at the marketing moves of former GNR bassist (and "business school graduate"...who knew?) Duff McKagan is another case in point, as musicians and biz folks alike are trotted out to defend their shilling and make their aging audience comfortable when "rockers are eagerly plastering their names everywhere." In fact, rockers are now so comfy with "plastering their names everywhere" that advertisers are starting to get nervous that audiences are ignoring the stuff those names being used to sell. More »

2:35 PM on Mon Oct 29 2007
By jharv
589 views, 1 comment

Latest by Chris Molanphy: 'Course that really doesn't take into account where listeners fit in. But we're barely a secondary market these days. Because you're all thieves! Why, you're on the internets right now! Why should we trust you infernal kids?! more »

"There is nothing worse than a middle-aged man thinking the music of his youth is somehow vastly superior to what is being made and played today," muses Bill Drummond of the KLF just before he commits an act of sacrilege against a Bob Dylan record in his automobile. While I don't share his conflicted ire for Mr. Zimmerman, the brat in me certainly appreciates the gesture. [Guardian]

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The Mark Ronson remix of Bob Dylan's "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)," which hits radio tomorrow: Finally, 2007 has its own "A Little Less Conversation." [dylan07.com]

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finger on the pulse

Bob Dylan Luuuhs the Kiiiiids!

The great thing about Bob Dylan over the past decade is how lustily he's embraced being an old, old man, whether doomy (as on 1997's Time Out of Mind), jaunty (2001's "Love and Theft"), or a little of each (2006's Modern Times). So imagine our surprise when a tipster forwarded us a questionnaire from an organization calling itself the Intelligence Group/Youth Intelligence, the point of which, apparently, was to gauge the interest of youngsters in, you guessed it, Bob Dylan. More »

2:30 PM on Thu Jul 12 2007
By mmatos
2,659 views, 5 comments

Latest by katesilver: [www.rollingstone.com] Dylan gave Mark Ronson permission to remix. Also, I used to be involved with Youth Intelligence. I distributed a survey for them in Minneapolis and received a sweet Nike watch! Ah, bribery. more »

bob dylan

Bob Dylan Is For The Children

From today's Page Six: More »

mp3

Listening Station, Part Two: Bob Dylan Is Not Huckin' Around

One more track from that Lucky You soundtrack: Bob Dylan's "Huck's Theme," the first new Zimmaterial since last year's Jackin' Pop-beloved Modern Times album. We're not certain if the languid "Theme" was taken from the those same sessions or recorded specifically for the film, but hopefully there are at least one or two Dylan fans who on the Internet (maybe?) who can let us know: More »

4:30 PM on Thu Apr 26 2007
By Brian Raftery
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liner notes

Liner Notes: Eminem Prepares For New Role As Wacky Landlord

- Eminem is negotiating to buy Detroit's legendary St. Andrew's Hall, which he'll use as a storage space for his collection of more than 1,200 vintage hooded sweatshirts. [NME]
- Bob Dylan will kick off a summer tour in Atlantic City in June. The 22-date jaunt has already been described as "revitalizing" and "the best tour of his career" by Rolling Stone. [Billboard]
- Fat Joe on the whether the Imus controversy will prompt criticism of hip-hop: "I don't know how a 60-year-old white dude has any relation to hip-hop music." M.C. Rove is not gonna like this! [MTV]

2:45 PM on Tue Apr 24 2007
By Brian Raftery
247 views, 2 comments

Latest by Cassiel: What exactly makes someone's roadtrip the "best tour of his career" when it hasn't taken place yet? Although if Dave Matthews ended up cancelling a planned tour, I'd say that would qualify. more »

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The Curious Case Of The Airborne Laptop At The Dylan Show

And we thought the only thing people had to watch out for at an arena show was $8 beers: As a Philly-area Bob Dylan fan found out last week, flying computers are the newest high-tech concert hazard. The story, as told by the struck concert-goer (and feel free to stick a big (sic) over the whole thing): More »

2:40 PM on Mon Nov 27 2006
By mjohnston
65 views, 7 comments

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