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Since emerging as a hyperactive, scaffolding-scaling rapper in the early 2010s, MGK — formerly Machine Gun Kelly, born Colson Baker — has forged his own path through the pop-cultural consciousness. He’s feuded with Eminem; he’s engaged in egregious red-carpet PDA with his onetime flame Megan Fox; he’s acted in movies …

Bob Dylan kicked off his Outlaw Music Festival set Friday evening at the Darien Lake Performing Arts Center in Darien Center, New York, by playing “Masters of War” for the first time since the Desert Trip Festival in 2016. Dylan has taken very few political stances since the Civil Rights …

The Outlaw Music Festival began nine years back as a single event in Scranton, Pennsylvania, featuring Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Sheryl Crow, Chris Robinson, and Lee Ann Womack. It’s slowly morphed into a traveling fest that brings Nelson and a rotating cast of top-grade support acts to amphitheaters across America …

Rolling Stone named Beyoncé’s “Formation” the greatest music video of all time in 2021. But when it comes to the most influential, first place can arguably go to a clip that isn’t even a proper music video — and was shot in black & white 60 years ago. Last week, …

For anyone who saw A Complete Unknown and wondered how close it resembled the actual Newport Folk Festival where Bob Dylan amped up his music, a new documentary will help answer that question. Among the many films just announced as part of the annual Venice Film Festival in September is …

In the spring of 1965, Bob Dylan stood in an alley by London’s Savoy Hotel and practically invented the music video by flipping through cue cards displaying words from “Subterranean Homesick Blues” while the song played. Fifty years later, Margo Price is paying homage to the historic clip in the …

The Outlaw Music Festival tour’s June 29th stop in Ridgedale, Missouri, was cut short on Sunday after extreme weather brought heavy rains and winds to the Thunder Ridge Nature Arena. Now, the fallout from the sudden storm has caused the tour to cancel a July 1 date in El Reno, …

Steven Keene, a New York singer-songwriter, challenges fans of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen to identify as many of the creative giants’ lyrics as they can in his rollicking new song “Thesaurus.” Just shy of four minutes, there’s nonetheless a lot to digest in Keene’s word-packed song, which he sells …

Just two songs into his Outlaw Music Festival set Wednesday night at the FirstBank Amphitheater in Franklin, Tennessee, Bob Dylan broke out his 1964 protest anthem “The Times They Are a-Changin’” for the first time since 2010. It was a slow, moving rendition where Dylan played piano and harmonica, and …

Bob Dylan‘s next release won’t be new music — it’ll be a book of drawings. On Tuesday, Simon & Schuster announced that it will publish Dylan’s book Point Blank (Quick Studies), a collection of black-and-white artwork made by the musician between 2021 and 2022, on Nov. 18. The collection, comprising …