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Bob Dylan‘s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” has been covered by everyone from Avril Lavigne to the Grateful Dead — and, most famously, by Guns N’ Roses, who made it a hit in the early Nineties. Now, actress-singer Sophie Thatcher is tackling the classic for her upcoming horror film Heretic. The …

Saturday Night Live episode promos are often about 20 seconds in length and feature little more than the host, the musical guest, a cast member or two, and a very lame joke that fades from memory about 12 seconds after you hear it, at best. But leave it to John …

Timothée Chalamet recreates one of Bob Dylan’s most famous songs and visuals with a version of“Subterranean Homesick Blues”for theupcoming biopic,A Complete Unknown. Chalamet’s new recording of the 1965 classic is the fullest offering yet of the actor’s take on Dylan’s singular singing voice. The previously released trailer for a Complete …

When Sinéad O’Connor tore up a photo of the pope on Saturday Night Live in 1992 to draw attention to child sexual abuse in the Catholic church, just about everyone turned their back on her. She was banned for life by NBC, belittled by late-night comedians, often in painfully misogynistic …

Let’s say that, in January of 1972, you had never heard a note of Kris Kristofferson‘s music. You didn’t know the former helicopter pilot and Rhodes scholar had written “Me and Bobby McGee,” which Janis Joplin had turned into her signature song. Or “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down,” which he gave …

This week Neil Young did two amazing club shows at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York, with his new band the Chrome Hearts. He began both nights with “I’m the Ocean,” one of his fiercest songs, from the 1995 Pearl Jam collaboration Mirror Ball. “People my age, they …

Bob Dylan has a Twitter account with over 422,000 followers, but he doesn’t actually tweet himself. It’s merely a means for his team to promote upcoming releases and tour dates, with occasional statements from Dylan himself when someone like Robbie Robertson dies. Throughout all of 2024, it’s been used a …

Call them the concert illuminati. You’re at a show in an arena or stadium, watching Bruce Springsteen, Chris Stapleton, Coldplay, Madonna, or Weezer, when suddenly the darkness is dotted with dozens, hundreds, then thousands points of light — all from cellphones. The origin story of this concert ritual is a …

Bob Dylan‘s time on the Outlaw Music Festival tour came to an end Tuesday night following a show at Darien Lake Ampitheater in Buffalo, New York. The three-month tour was packed with moments that stunned longtime Dylan fans, including the return of gospel band-era drummer Jim Keltner, the defection of …

Despite stiff competition on that year’s rock-legend road-show circuit—the Grateful Dead touring the massive Wall of Sound speaker system, CSNY reunited, hitting the sheds, and de-uniting in record time—there was only one outing anybody meant when they said Tour ’74. That January and February, Bob Dylan and The Band reunited …