free single from new dylan album

A track from Dylan’s new album Together Through Life, “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’”, is currently available from bobdylan.com.

You will be shocked to learn that I really like it.  It has a nice bass groove, great, free roaming…

music listening preferences and intelligence

I really enjoyed “Music That Makes You Dumb“, an admittedly psuedo-scientific analysis of intelligence vs musical preferences.  Basically, one Virgil Griffith has assembled data on music taste based on U.S. college campuses, then compared that data with the…

some people tell me I got the blood of the land in my voice

For a while there, Bob Dylan seemed to be slowing down with age.  In his youth he was an album factory, cranking out 8 albums between 1962 and 1967, and 9 albums between 1969 and 1976.  But in (ahem) modern…

why?

I thought no-one could do a less appropriate cover of a great song than Scarlett.  I was so very wrong.

Edit: I like this description.  What the hell is with The Watchmen anyway?  So…

random awesome Dylan photos

By Jerry Schatzberg, apparently.

As a Dylan obsessive and huge fan of the latter-day, grouchy old man Dylan, it’s good to have the occasional reminder of how straight-out fucking cool he was in the 1960s (especially…

tell tale signs

I’ve written another album review over at Gigomaphone, this time for the new Dylan release, Tell Tale Signs: link.

free bob

This is good – just to prove it is the greatest radio station ever, NPR is streaming the new Bob Dylan Bootleg Series album, Tell Tale Signs.

There’s plenty of interesting stuff there. Highlights for me so far (apart from…