October 16, 2025
Everything new in the world of Bob Dylan over the past day (or so).
Last Updated: 10/16/2025 at 12:06 PM EST
Dylan News
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Margo Price has officially released her scorching new studio recording of Dylan’s “Maggie’s Farm,” a barn-burning country-rock take on the 1965 original.
Dylan will release an additional 1,500 tickets for the Coventry Building Society Arena show on November 13 due to increased capacity.
Dylan Efron, competing on Dancing With the Stars, has opened up about his relationship with Courtney King and how the show has been tough on her.
Tour Updates
News or Reviews of Current Bob Dylan Concerts
Cult Following (OCT 15, 2025)
Dylan performed three sold-out shows at London's Royal Albert Hall on the tour, with a seventeen-song set featuring many Rough and Rowdy Ways songs.
Dylan Articles
General Coverage From Newspapers, Magazines, or Websites
At a Bob Dylan tribute at Madison Square Garden in October 1992, Sinéad O'Connor, after the SNL uproar, defiantly sang Marley’s 'War' to a hostile crowd.
I started photographing Bob Dylan in the ’60s.
I have argued that these four songs represent the pinnacle of Dylan’s acoustic achievement.
The phrase “when Dylan went electric” once carried as much weight in pop culture history as “the fall of the Berlin Wall” carries in, well, history.
To understand the culture of the decade, we must understand the import of Dylan’s appearance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, backed by Mike Bloomfield and other members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
Lennon was so disappointed by Dylan and 'Gotta Serve Somebody' that he wrote a rebuttal song, 'Serve Yourself,' featuring lyrics urging people to 'serve yourself'.
Dylan described Crosby as 'an architect of harmony,' saying he could 'freak out a whole city block all by himself' and that he liked him a lot.
Dylan Blogs
Ideas and Opinions From Blogs or Personal Feeds
But then you’re a different Bob Dylan from the one we knew.
But then you're a different Bob Dylan from the one we knew.
The Supper Club shows remain one of the high points of the NET, with Dylan in a small club delivering an hour-long acoustic set that captured his career.
Maybe that is what is going on here with Dylan’s flashback to Jesse James.
Albums That Should Exist
(OCT 14, 2025)
At Farm Aid in Minneapolis (Huntington Bank Stadium) on 9-20-2025, Dylan performed as part of the event's lineup.
Releases & Reviews
Announcements or Analysis of Creative Work
Jac Holzman Presents Dylan’s Circle spotlights Dylan performances amid a rich folk community spanning 1954–1971.
An hour of Dylan performing Tell Ol’ Bill while receiving feedback in the studio.
[At Budokan] was recorded during his 1978 world tour and is composed mostly of the artist’s “greatest hits”.
The documentary traces Dylan’s journey from his small-town upbringing in Hibbing to his restless drive toward the streets of New York City.
Price's performance of "Maggie's Farm" at the Newport Folk Festival celebrated the 60th anniversary of Dylan's infamous "electric" set at the event.
Saratoga Springs is a quality soundboard where the acoustic instrumentals pair so brilliantly with Dylan’s voice.
The book covers Dylan's artistic journey from 1967 to 1990, a period of retreat, resurgence, and rebirth.
Margo Price has released a scorching studio recording of Dylan's "Maggie's Farm," updating the song's defiant message with searing vocals and barn-burning rock arrangements.
Events News
Announcements and Commentary
You Are Current (OCT 16, 2025)
Osborne said shining a light on Dylan’s importance was the most impactful aftereffect of the film.
The Riff Report (OCT 16, 2025)
Dylan has released additional tickets for the upcoming UK tour.
JamBase (OCT 15, 2025)
The Dylan Belated Birthday Benefit Band performs at Blue in Portland on Nov. 15, 2025, as a belated birthday benefit with tickets from $20.
Pre-Release Items
Upcoming Music, Books, Films, Etc.
Examining how Dylan's lyrics shape or get shaped by vocalization, performance, instrumentation, film, recording technologies, and the forces of history unfolding around him, this collection models a range of ways to understand the songs as poetical phenomena by answering questions like: How can we read and understand Dylan's lyrics as poetry?
Discover a new side of the songs of Bob Dylan by exploring the virtues of rough sounds, peculiar intonation, and a raspy voice.
In the wake of the recent hit biopic A Complete Unknown, this probing appreciation asks: Do the lyrics of Bob Dylan tell the true story of the ever-changing, ever-radical life and career of the Nobel Prize-winning songwriter?
This publication of his art features nearly 100 black-and-white drawings that were completed between 2021 and 2022 and served as the basis for his latest exhibition—also titled _Point Blank_—at London’s Halcyon Gallery in early 2025.
Blending biography and archival history, After the Flood asks of Bob Dylan, “If your dreams are fulfilled at twenty, what do you do with the rest of your life?”
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- OCT-16 / NOV-25 | Various Europe & UK: Bob Dylan - Europe Fall 2025 Tour (Dylan Concert)
- OCT-17 | Bay Shore, NY: Chrome Horse - Bob Dylan Tribute (Tribute Band)
- OCT-18 | Chicago, IL: Breathing Room: On Dylan's Harmonica (Lecture)
- OCT-19 | Overland Park, KS: Dustbowl Revival & Hot Club of Cowtown: 'Willie and Bob' (Concert)
- OCT-23 | Syracuse, NY: Chrome Horse: The Bob Dylan Tribute (Tribute Band)
- OCT-23 | New York, NY: Sam Sussman | Authors’ Evenings (Event)
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