Bob Dylan, Bono, Gregg Allman and Willie Nelson appear in the new trailer for Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President, out September 9th. Directed by Mary Wharton, the trailer opens with Carter listening to Dylan’s Bringing It All Back Home on vinyl. “All right!” he says giddily as “Mr. Tambourine …
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Drake secured his fourth week at the top of the Rolling Stone Artists 500 chart, accruing 117.6 million song streams for the week of June 19th through June 25th. Drake’s reign continued uninterrupted even as his latest single, “Toosie Slide” dropped out of the Top 10 of the Top 100 …
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Up until this year, Bob Dylan had never really expressed much interest in the Eagles. But then in his epic song “Murder Most Foul,” released in March, he called out Don Henley and Glenn Frey by name, along with their 1975 classic “Take It to the Limit.” That inspired historian …
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Millions of listeners have been coping with the loneliness, moral fatigue, and existential boredom of a global pandemic to the beat of Megan Thee Stallion’s “Savage,” so many that the song took the top spot on the RS 100. Yet overall, Americans have been seeking solace not in synthetic beats, …
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Bob Dylan, who dreamed of joining Little Richard’s band as a young musician in Minnesota, penned a short tribute to the rock pioneer following his death Saturday at the age of 87. “I just heard the news about Little Richard and I’m so grieved,” Dylan wrote. “He was my shining …
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“There’ll be no revival/there’ll be no encore,” sings Robbie Robertson in a raspy voice — a voice rarely heard in the Band — on “Once Were Brothers.” It’s a sing-speaking voice here, like latter-day Leonard Cohen with less gravitas, or Robertson’s old boss Dylan with less insouciance. A narrator’s voice, …
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Bob Dylan has rolled out dates for a U.S. fall tour kicking off October 11th in Irvine, California at the UC Irvine Bren Events Center and wraps up November 21st in Philadelphia at The Met Philadelphia. He has played extensively in Europe this year, but these will be his first …
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