October 15, 2025
Everything new in the world of Bob Dylan over the past day (or so).
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
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'.
During the Blood on the Tracks period, Dylan seemed as creatively energised as he’d been at any point since his turn to electricity.
Bob Dylan released his 34th studio album, Christmas in the Heart, as a fundraiser for organizations that help combat global hunger.
Capturing Dylan at his mid 1970s era where the artist seemed to be endlessly in flux, his tour was like that too.
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.
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.
In this series, I am trying to find one recording of a concert in each year, which represents in some way what Bob was doing and sounding like in that particular year.
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
The Nara concert thus unfolded a new dimension of the song, teaching Dylan that it contained more potential than even he yet knew.
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.
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.
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
Jac Holzman Presents Dylan’s Circle spotlights Dylan performances amid a rich folk community spanning 1954–1971.
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.
Margo Price has officially released her scorching new studio recording of Dylan's 'Maggie's Farm,' out today on Loma Vista Recordings.
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.
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.
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.
Howe will release Signals Crossed towards the end of the year, following the re-issue of his Portraits of Dylan covers album.
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
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.
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.
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?”
Dylan Related Events (Next 7 Days)
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Ongoing Multi-Day Events
- JAN-01 / NOV-14 | UK Various: Hallelujah on Desolation Row / Barb Junger Tour (Concert Tour)
- OCT-16 / NOV-25 | Various Europe & UK: Bob Dylan - Europe Fall 2025 Tour (Dylan Concert)
Single-Day Events
- OCT-08 | Oxford, MS: Only a Pawn in Their Game: Bob Dylan, Medgar Evers and the Delta Folk Jubilee of 1963 (Lecture)
- NOV-13 | Darwen, GB: Open Mic 'Dylan' Special - Thursday 13th November 2025 | Sunbird Records, Darwen (Concert)
- NOV-15 | Portland, ME: The Dylan Belated Birthday Benefit Band at Blue (Birthday Tribute)
- NOV-15 | Ashfield, New South Wales: My Back Pages Revue (Concert)
- NOV-15 | London, UK: The Bob Dylan Record Club (Concert)
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