When we listen to our favorite songs on the radio, we often treat the lyrics as abstract pieces of creative poetry or general expressions of romantic longing. We assume that songwriters are dipping ...

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Bob Dylan's website has been updated with over a dozen new tour dates. The first of these new dates to be added to Dylan's 2026 schedule will take place on July 8 in Chicago. Then come shows in places ...

Today’s musicians would do well by their careers in reading Jim Windolf’s exquisite new book, “Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other—and the World.” In the book’s ...

Somewhere deep in the heart of America, in the back of a bus hurtling down some godforsaken highway, Walmarts and cemeteries and Civil War battlegrounds whizzing past, mute and forgotten and eternal, ...

Polito's book accepts the common idea that Dylan lost his way in the 1980s, putting out mediocre music and giving listless live performances. I'd certainly noticed that something was up when Dylan ...

A film scene of Dylan and Lennon at a low moment in 1966 has held a grim fascination for fans. Beneath the repartee, a touchy issue was at stake. By Jim Windolf Jim Windolf is an editor for the Styles ...

Bob Dylan turns 85 this spring, just before Memorial Day. I went to see him Monday night in Waukegan, at the Genesee Theatre, itself approaching 100 years next winter. Nobody’s getting younger.

After brief teases on his social media accounts, Bob Dylan announced via Instagram Stories yesterday that he’s launched a Patreon series, Lectures From The Grave, featuring “letters never sent” from ...

The person you’ve all been waiting to see on Patreon has finally joined: Bob Dylan. This afternoon, the singer-songwriter posted an Instagram story with a flyer promoting Lectures From the Grave, an ...

That is to say, he is confounding us once again. Like he did when he went electric, when he disappeared after his motorcycle accident, when he recorded three overtly Christian albums, when he released ...

Bob Dylan, who turns 85 on May 24, won’t be kicking back after his spring tour concludes on May 1 in Texas. The iconic singer-songwriter is hitting the road again this summer with his band for a tour ...