When not selling Cadillacs, or being covered by everybody, Dylan's hanging with famous Detroit bullfighter Jack White and friends to finish up a few lost honkytonk tunes. According to Paste, they're composing the music to Hank Williams's unused lyrics. ... CONTINUE READING BOB DYLAN, JACK WHITE WORK ON LOST HANK WILLIAMS SONGS»
Posted on November 16, 2007 (6 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan | Hank Williams | Jack White | The White Stripes
Everything's coming up Dylan. As mentioned, a lot of folks we like got together to cover the car salesman Mr. Zimmerman as part of the I'm Not There soundtrack. We pointed out streams for Dylan takes by Sufjan, Calexico with... CONTINUE READING NEW KAREN O - "HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on October 25, 2007 (18 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan | Karen O | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
What's that blowin' in the wind? Why it's the recently covered and screen-adapted Dylan acting the part of car salesman. Driving across the desert, rolling past cows and birds of prey, the freewheelin' one riffs wryly over a loop of... CONTINUE READING BOB DYLAN HAWKS CADDIES»
Posted on October 22, 2007 in , (11 comments)
Tags: Bill Callahan | Bob Dylan | Smog
You can stop watching the I'm Not There trailer now and get listening to some of the soundtrack for Todd Haynes' mucho anticipated, shape-shifting Dylan flick. Check out the album art below -- A Bobby double looming large. Sufjan, Chan,... CONTINUE READING SUFJAN STEVENS, CAT POWER, AND JIM JAMES & CALEXICO COVER DYLAN»
Posted on October 18, 2007 in (11 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan | Brightblack Morning Light | Calexico | Cat Power | Giant Drag | Jim James | My Morning Jacket | Sufjan Stevens | Yeasayer
While dragging through a folder of backups that's moved from computer to computer over the last decade, Jim found an image labeled "dylan_ideas.tif", and when we opened it, we saw this... Here's what our advanced data mining tells us: It... CONTINUE READING NO 1. INDIES DETECTIVE AGENCY»
Posted on October 11, 2007 (18 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan
Okay, so this morning's 'Gum Drop probably wasn't the most exciting email most of you received this morning, but that new New Amsterdam's track is a sweet treat. And so is this week's giveaway. Maybe you have everything Bob Dylan... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP GIVEAWAY #7»
Posted on October 10, 2007 in (0 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan | Helado Negro | James Hall Worship And Praise | M. Ward | The New Amsterdams
Did you open you're email yet today? If so, chances are you found yourself a new 'Gum Drop, this time packed with a never-before-heard track from recent Kill Rock Stars signee Panther, and the chance to win a boatload of... CONTINUE READING THE 'GUM DROP GIVEAWAY #5»
Posted on September 26, 2007 in (0 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan | Chuck Klosterman | Cut Off Your Hands | Dirty Projectors | HEALTH | Johnny Cash | Panther | Women
For the first time in probably forever, we had a weekend that saw more Meg related tips come in than those detailing the exploits of her other White half, but still a lot of you wrote us about Jack's recent... CONTINUE READING JACK WHITE JOINS BOB DYLAN FOR "ONE MORE CUP OF COFFEE"»
Posted on September 24, 2007 in (8 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan | Jack White | The White Stripes
The promo campaign on this year's DYLAN box set has been a Zimmerman's delight of goodies. The site's had cute little extras, pics, etc., but make room for two more. First and foremost, we finally have the clip corresponding to... CONTINUE READING NEW BOB DYLAN VIDEO - "MOST LIKELY YOU GO YOUR WAY (AND I'LL GO MINE) (MARK RONSON RE-VERSION)"»
Posted on September 7, 2007 in (11 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan | Mark Ronson
We saw a clip of Cate Blanchett's Bob meeing David Cross's Allen Ginsberg, and we pored over the 34-song soundtracklist, and so to complement our pre-release swooning over the multi-Bob biopic I'm Not There, here's the first iteration of the... CONTINUE READING A TALE OF SIX DYLANS: THE I'M NOT THERE TRAILER»
Posted on August 22, 2007 in (9 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan
Last week a call went out over Craigslist...Seeking Bob Dylan Fans for his new music video We are seeking 2 types of talent for this video… - Men and women in their 20s-40s who are fans of Bob Dylan. Prefer... CONTINUE READING STUCK INSIDE OF BROOKLYN WITH THE REMIX BLUES AGAIN»
Posted on August 16, 2007 (9 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan | Mark Ronson | Wyclef Jean
The last half of '07 is a busy one for Bob Dylan's recorded output and historic likeness. There's the DYLAN boxed set (in two editions, with a celebratory Mark Ronson "re-version" of "Most Likely You Go Your Way [And I'll... CONTINUE READING DYLAN BIOPIC I'M NOT THERE SOUNDTRACK FEATURES MANY ARTISTS YOU KNOW»
Posted on August 13, 2007 (13 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan | I'm Not There
So, collectors of iconic-artists-career-works-repackaged treatment, you have not one but TWO choices as to how to spend your money this fall: Do you go with DYLAN: The 3-CD, 51-song set (regular or deluxe i.e. in cloth cases) spanning five decades,... CONTINUE READING MARK RONSON RE-VERSIONS BOB DYLAN»
Posted on July 31, 2007 (18 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan | Mark Ronson
A short bit from Todd Haynes' Dylan movie I'm Not There has leaked online. The film, which features seven (six?) actors playing Bob -- Christian Bale, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw, and Cate Blanchett -- is... CONTINUE READING I'M NOT THERE: CATE BLANCHETT AS BOB DYLAN»
Posted on July 16, 2007 in (27 comments)
Tags: Allen Ginsberg | Bob Dylan | Cate Blanchett | David Cross | I'm Not There | Todd Haynes
Back in 1973, with his take on "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," Bryan Ferry thought a whole album of Dylan covers would be "great." It wasn't 'til last year that he made it happen, by which time the world's heard... CONTINUE READING BRYAN FERRY - DYLANESQUE»
Posted on May 10, 2007 (5 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan | Bryan Ferry
OK, it's spoken word (an apology to Bob Dylan!). But still, it's enough for Buckley completists like us. Robert Zimmerman was an early supporter (and hero) of Jeff's, but one night Buckley did a little riffing (if you have Live... CONTINUE READING NEW JEFF BUCKLEY»
Posted on April 16, 2007 (14 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan | Jeff Buckley
Cracked.com, that oft-overlooked bastion of music journalism, has revealed its picks for the worst cover songs of all time. This is a topic that interests us greatly.20. "You Shook Me All Night Long" -- Celine Dion and Anastasia 19. "Downtown... CONTINUE READING THE WORST COVER SONGS IN POP MUSIC HISTORY»
Posted on March 14, 2007 in , (89 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan
To know Bob Dylan is to know the national pastime. At least that's the premise of an article at MLB.com (via RS), which looks into the depths of Dylan's lyrical schemes to find that, after all these years, he's going... CONTINUE READING BOB KNOWS BASEBALL»
Posted on February 7, 2007 (4 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan
Page 6 confirms (as much as they're capable of doing so) that Bob Dylan's deal to acquire some fancy digs in Scotland was sealed over the weekend:THE times they are a-changin' for counter-culture hero Bob Dylan, who's landed a grand,... CONTINUE READING ZIMMERMANSION»
Posted on January 22, 2007 (8 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan
Cracked has put together a list of the worst rhyme offenders in pop music history. A lot like looking for sand in the desert, but it's a fun game. (And its taken all our power not to rhyme so far.... CONTINUE READING 20 WORST RHYME CRIMES IN POP MUSIC»
Posted on January 17, 2007 in , (89 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan wrote a lot of popular songs ... but did you know he wrote ALL popular songs? Our friends at The Post Show dig deep into the folkie's back pages and deliver a short history lesson more revealing than... CONTINUE READING BOB DYLAN: NO DIRECTION, PERIOD»
Posted on January 17, 2007 in (18 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan | Joan Baez
List season is in full swing, and we fully acknowledge how difficult it is to put one together without everyone shitting all over it. Hell we revel in it. But Rolling Stone ... Stadium Arcadium at #2?! Umm. Well Rolling... CONTINUE READING ROLLING STONE'S BEST ALBUMS OF '06»
Posted on December 14, 2006 in , , (75 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Sonic Youth
If you were pumped about the release of the forthcoming Edie Sedgwick biopic Factory Girl, about the Andy Warhol-protegé's '60s-It Girl days and later drug abuse and suicide, you're part of a group that doesn't include Bobby D or Lou... CONTINUE READING FACTORY GIRL DEFAMING DYLAN?»
Posted on December 14, 2006 (14 comments)
Tags: Andy Warhol | Bob Dylan | Fool's Gold | Foreign Born | Lou Reed | The Real Housewives Of New York City | Weezer
The Alicia Keys name-checking tune from the man of Modern Times just got the video treatment, with the song set to vintage Bobby D footage. Watch it at Slate, who describe the clip:... a whirlwind tour of the many phases,... CONTINUE READING NEW BOB DYLAN VIDEO - "THUNDER ON THE MOUNTAIN"»
Posted on December 8, 2006 in (2 comments)
Tags: Alicia Keys | Bob Dylan
