1. LeBron James turned 40 years old at the end of December. The occasion was marked by many social media users trotting out this tweet from May 2015, sent by a random person, who said, “Lebron is 30, this f---ery won’t go on for much longer, thank god.”
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with actor Timothee Chalamet and director James Mangold about their new movie A Complete Unknown.
Bob Dylan’s typewritten draft of the “Mr. Tambourine Man” lyrics sold for $508,000 Saturday at an auction featuring 60 Dylan items from the collection of late rock journalist Al Aronowitz.
The first sounds you hear when you drop the needle — or click the digital file — on Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks are guitars ringing and chiming, almost like bells. They serve as a kind of preface or overture or opening statement or call to prayer for what the listener is about to hear: 56 minutes of a journey through dark heat into the heart and soul of an artist at the depths of sadness driving him to the heights of creative achievement.
Ray Padgett's Flagging Down the Double E's website and newsletter has become an indispensable resource for Dylan fans all across the globe.
Robertson, the band's guitarist and lead songwriter, died in 2023 after a long illness. Keyboardist-drummer Richard Manuel killed himself in 1986, bassist Rick Danko died in his sleep in 1999 and drummer Levon Helm died of cancer in 2012. The Band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
In a landmark auction at Nashville’s Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum, Bob Dylan’s original drafts for his iconic 1965 song 'Mr Tambourine Man' fetched an impressive $508,000 (€494,000).
“A Complete Unknown” is the rare Hollywood movie that has inspired a reckoning. Everywhere, on social media, in mainstream media, or simply on the part of so many who have seen the film, a ...
Bob Dylan might not have scored a No. 1 track himself, but one of his songs has. Why this is the case is an impossible question to answer. However, it sets up an interesting discussion regarding ...
Marking the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks, revisit the very first season of The Opus podcast about the classic album.
In case you hadn't heard, James Mangold's Bob Dylan biopic — A Complete Unknown — is about to hit Australian cinema screens, a fact that's hard to miss given the generational press run its ...