October 15, 2025

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Bournemouth Echo (OCT 15, 2025)
The book covers Dylan's artistic journey from 1967 to 1990, a period of retreat, resurgence, and rebirth.

Dylan Articles

General Coverage From Newspapers, Magazines, or Websites

Far Out Magazine (OCT 14, 2025)
Dylan simply could not seem to stop inviting people, turning a small rehearsal group into a roaming caravan of musicians, writers and artists.
Far Out Magazine (OCT 14, 2025)
Capturing Dylan at his mid 1970s era where the artist seemed to be endlessly in flux, his tour was like that too.
American Songwriter (OCT 14, 2025)
When Dylan was a high schooler in Minnesota, he started a boogie-woogie band that played in the style of Little Richard and other early rock greats so brazenly that it caused secondhand embarrassment among his classmates.
Far Out Magazine (OCT 15, 2025)
Harvey said you don’t need a lot of dense language in a song—unless you’re a master, like Bob Dylan.

Dylan Blogs

Ideas and Opinions From Blogs or Personal Feeds

Flagging Down the Double E's (OCT 13, 2025)
The Nara concert thus unfolded a new dimension of the song, teaching Dylan that it contained more potential than even he yet knew.
Untold Dylan (OCT 13, 2025)
Dylan wrote a run of experimental songs after 'I Want You' that show musical variations and a search for new approaches, forming a prelude to the Basement Tapes.
bob-dylan.org.uk (OCT 14, 2025)
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.
Cult Following (OCT 13, 2025)
Fans praised Dylan’s rock-and-roll cover of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah as a passionate, majestic interpretation that recognised the song as a masterpiece.

Releases & Reviews

Announcements or Analysis of Creative Work

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Margo Price has officially released her scorching new studio recording of Dylan's 'Maggie's Farm,' out today on Loma Vista Recordings.
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Lomax Archive issues the first known tape of Dylan performing 'Masters of War' in Alan Lomax's New York City apartment, recorded in January 1963.
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Steve Howe will release a limited-edition white 10-inch vinyl EP, Signals Crossed, featuring three previously unreleased interpretations of Dylan tracks, via his HoweSounds label on December 5.
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Fans will be happy to know that to follow up the release of 'Portraits Of Bob Dylan' on 12th September, Steve Howe will issue Signals Crossed, an E.P including three previously unreleased interpretations of Bob Dylan songs.
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Howe will release Signals Crossed towards the end of the year, following the re-issue of his Portraits of Dylan covers album.
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Lorne Michaels brought Dylan to SNL in 1979, where he delivered an unexpected, stripped-back performance of Gotta Serve Somebody reflecting his recent religiously influenced style.

Events News

Announcements and Commentary

27east (OCT 14, 2025)
The program includes Haydn, Beethoven, Matana Roberts’ “borderlands…” and the quartet’s rendition of Dylan’s 1964 anthem “The Times They Are A-Changin’.”
Cape News (OCT 14, 2025)
His set will include songs from Dylan, Joan Baez, Paul Simon and others, tracing the singer-songwriter's development from 1952 to the present.
Fatsoma (OCT 14, 2025)
Darwen Music Projects present an open-mic night celebrating Dylan's music at Sunbird Records on 13 November 2025.

Pre-Release Items

Upcoming Music, Books, Films, Etc.

  • OCT 15, 2025 | The Poetry of Bob Dylan: Thirty Essays on Thirty Songs
    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?
  • OCT 16, 2025 | What Did You Hear?: The Music of Bob Dylan
    Discover a new side of the songs of Bob Dylan by exploring the virtues of rough sounds, peculiar intonation, and a raspy voice.
  • OCT 20, 2025 | Bob Dylan: Things Have Changed
    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?
  • NOV 17, 2025 | Point Blank (Bob Dylan's Quick Studies)
    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. 
  • JAN 26, 2026 | After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan's Memory Palace
    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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