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Bob Dylan recently wrapped up a stretch of North American tour dates that centered heavily on southern states like Texas, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. Now, he’s heading to the west coast for another set of shows on the extensive Rough and Rowdy Ways world tour expected to last through 2024, with more dates to be announced along the way.

The tour picks back up on May 28 with a show at Spokane, Washington’s First Interstate Center for the Arts. The 14-date set spreads across multiple cities in Washington, Oregon,...

There were great reggae bassists before him, and after, but more than any other instrumentalist, Robbie Shakespeare, in tandem with his drum partner and co-producer Sly Dunbar, defined the bass-centric approach of the genre’s modern era, from the roots-rocker sound of the Seventies to the digi-dub dancehall of the Eighties, Nineties, and beyond. His playing was so deeply grounded, its pulse felt biological, and so irresistible he became not just the go-to man for reggae musicians, but for anyone interested in seismic grooves, from Dylan and Mick Jagger to No Doubt and Simply Red.

Robbie Shakespeare, the renowned reggae bassist who helped move the genre into new sonic territory and whose playing was heard on classics by Black Uhuru and Peter Tosh as well as albums by rock icons such as Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger, has died at age 68. His death was announced on Twitter by Olivia Grange, Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment & Sport. A cause of death was not immediately disclosed, but The Jamaica Gleaner noted that the musician had recently been hospitalized for kidney damage.

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The Eighties are widely regarded as the low point of Bob Dylan’s entire career, a time when he struggled to find relevance in the MTV era and released a series of tacky, rudderless albums that were savaged by fans and critics. Even Dylan himself refuses to defend his output from the time. “[I was] pretty whitewashed and wasted out professionally,” he recalled in his 2004 memoir Chronicles: Volume One. “I’m in the bottomless pit of cultural oblivion. You name it. I can’t shake it.”

But the newest chapter of the bootleg series,...

Bob Dylan is prepping a new seven-inch vinyl single featuring two previously unreleased recordings of “Blind Willie McTell.” The single will arrive on August 20th via Third Man Records and is available to preorder now.

“Blind Willie McTell” came out of the sessions for Dylan’s 1983 album, Infidels, although it didn’t make the final album cut and a version of the song wasn’t officially released until The Bootleg Series Volumes 1 – 3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991 arrived in 1991. The Bootleg Series version is a simple acoustic piano-guitar version that Dylan recorded with...

Earlier this week, Bob Dylan fans learned that the next chapter of his Bootleg Series will focus on his early-Eighties work. The focal point of Springtime in New York: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 16 (1980–1985) is studio outtakes from 1983’s Infidels, but there’s also 1980 tour rehearsals and material recorded for 1981’s Shot of Love and 1985’s Empire Burlesque.

“It’s quite often said that Bob lost his way in the Eighties,” said a source close to the Dylan camp. “But he was searching for his way in the Eighties. This set shows that search.

The next chapter of Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series will center around the music recorded in the aftermath of his Christian period in the early Eighties. The package includes studio outtakes from 1981’s Shot of Love, 1983’s Infidels, and 1985’s Empire Burlesque along with songs recorded during live rehearsals in 1980, his 1984 European stadium tour, and his 1984 appearance on Late Night With David Letterman.

Springtime In New York: The Bootleg Series Vol. 16 (1980-1985), set for release September 17th, will be available as a two-disc set and a deluxe package containing a...

“You’re No Good” (Bob Dylan, 1962)

From his oft-overlooked folkie debut, a prophetic blast of rockabilly. Even in this early stage, hustling to make his name in the folk scene, Dylan’s got rock & roll in his bones.

“Going, Going, Gone” (Planet Waves, 1974)

One of his last great studio performances with the Band — and also one of his catchiest songs about death.

“Black Diamond Bay” (Desire, 1976)

A tale of forbidden love, violence, treachery — plus a final-verse twist where it turns out Dylan’s at home watching the news on TV,...

Chrissie Hynde proved the bona fides of her Bob Dylan fandom decades ago. She sang “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” with him onstage at Wembley Stadium in ’84 and serenaded him with her own jaw-dropping, gospel-tinged rendition of “I Shall Be Released” at his 30th anniversary concert in ’91. She’s vouched for his born-again years, belting “Property of Jesus” on her solo tours, and she slipped his lilting secular favorite “Forever Young” into the Pretenders’ set list only a few years ago. So an album like Standing in the Doorway,...

New Delhi, March 10 (Ians) India's Anirban Lahiri returns to The Players Championship for a fifth time this week but is still looking at making a meaningful mark at the event.

"It's nice to be back. I didn't realise it's my fifth time back. I really like this golf course, I love the way it is set up and I feel like it's one of those tracks where I can do really well. My record doesn't show that though. The game has been a little patchy, up and down, but I think it's trending back in the right direction. I have a couple of things that I've been working on and they seem to be falling into place, so it's all about putting it together now," said Lahiri.

Lahiri got into the elite field at the Usd 15 million showpiece following the withdrawal of former world No. 1 Brooks Koepka, who pulled out due to an injury.

A Warner Bros. and Picomedia production, the latest film by the Italian director is based upon Edoardo Albinati’s eponymous novel which won the 2016 Strega Prize. After closing the 77th Venice Film Festival last month with Lasciami andare - having landed on Netflix just before with his remake of the French film The Players - Stefano Mordini is already back on set with his new feature film La scuola cattolica, a work based upon Edoardo Albinati’s best-selling novel of the same name (published by Rizzoli) which scooped the prestigious Premio Strega in 2016. Produced by Warner Bros. Entertainment Italia and Picomedia (Roberto Sessa), the film boasts several big names from the world of Italian cinema, as well as a new, promising generation of young actors: Valeria Golino, Riccardo Scamarcio and Jasmine Trinca will share the stage with Benedetta Porcaroli (star of the TV series Baby) and Ludovico Tersigni (Skam Italia...

Unless something very big changes in the next couple of months, 2020 will go down in history as the first year since 1977 that Bob Dylan didn’t perform live even a single time. This obviously isn’t by choice. He was supposed to play Japan in April and then travel across America in the summer on a bill with Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats and Hot Club of Cowtown. The pandemic had other plans and he hasn’t been seen in public since December 8th, 2019 when he played the Anthem in Washington D.

Director Michel Hazanavicius and actress Bérénice Bejo, Oscar winner and Oscar nominee respectively for “The Artist,” will present individual Masterclasses at the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival this year. Also delivering Masterclasses are directors Michel Franco and Rithy Panh.

The Masterclasses, which like the rest of the festival are running online via ondemand.sff.ban, are organized in cooperation with Variety, and will be available worldwide via the Variety Streaming Room.

Hazanavicius shot his first feature-length film, “Mes Amis,” in 1999. In 2006, he directed his second feature, “Oss 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies,” and then, three years later, “Oss 17: Lost in Rio.”

In 2011, he made “The Artist,” the silent, black-and-white film starring Bejo and Jean Dujardin, which won five Academy Awards in 2012, including best film, director and actor for Dujardin, while Bejo was an Oscar nominee for supporting actress.

The film premiered at Cannes, as did Hazanavicius’ “The Players” and “Redoubtable.