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"It’s absurd that I have Bruce Springsteen's number. It's like me as a seven year-old having Batman's phone number": How a pizza date with The Boss played a part in The Gaslight Anthem's triumphant return

The Gaslight Anthem are back after a long hiatus, and Brian Fallon reveals that Bruce Springsteen played a pivotal role in inspiring the New Jersey quartet's second coming

Louder

“Here’s my record. And if you ever want to write a song together…”: Bob Dylan said he loved Duff McKagan’s last album. So Duff McKagan asked him to collaborate

Duff McKagan reacted to Bob Dylan’s praise by suggesting they write a song together, plus he reveals he wants to make an album with Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell

Louder

Are ‘my shame’ music docs such as ‘Robbie Williams’ the final act of celebrity narcissism?

This week sees Netflix release its intimate tell-all portrait of the former Take That star, while ‘Peter Doherty: Stranger in My Own Skin’ is out in cinemas. Are we witnessing a whole new art form? It’s certainly tempting to view it that way, writes Chris Harvey

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“His solos and fills always captured the mood, emotions and significance of the songs. They were never just good licks”: Robbie Robertson’s 10 greatest guitar tracks

With a little help from Warren Haynes, GW sifts through the late Band legend’s discography for the ultimate Robertson guitar playlist

Guitar World

“People have said, ‘Oh, man, you gotta play the Gibson, that’s the real deal.’ But there’s something about the Ibanez… I prefer the evenness of it”: John Scofield on working with Miles Davis, covering Bob Dylan and the agony of writing music

The jazz improv virtuoso returns with Uncle John's Band, an album that finds him covering Bob Dylan, Neil Young and, of course, the Grateful Dead

Guitar World

“I was expecting to toss it into the pile of unsuccessful builds from the 1960s guitar boom. Boy howdy, was I wrong!”: Meet the Martin GT‑75 Moth – the iconic acoustic company’s 1967 semi-hollow electric experiment

An electric guitar from the venerable acoustic brand is a rare thing indeed, but then this was the ‘60s, Bob Dylan had just taken up a Stratocaster, and the times they were a-changing

Guitar World

Days of The Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business

The long read: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now coming to an end?

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‘She never pandered to fashion’: why Kirsty MacColl’s vivid pop career was no fairytale

Deemed ‘difficult’ in the 80s music industry, the Pogues’ vocal foil never quite found the audience she deserved. As a box set is released, collaborators gather to recall her wistful, witty songwriting

The Guardian - UK

Ranking the greatest Beatles songs, from No. 1 to No. 189 (updated with Now and Then)

We ranked every song the Beatles wrote, including their last one.

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"I jammed with Hendrix and Clapton in a loft in New York": Roger McGuinn's stories of John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison and more

The Byrds' Roger McGuinn played with Jim Morrison, was part of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder revue, gave John Lennon granny glasses and Brian Wilson speed, and he's got some tales to tell

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"So bad that it makes you forget how good the songs are": the story of the incomprehensible Bob Dylan musical that was killed by Bob Dylan fans

The Times They Are A-Changin' hit Broadway in 2006: one critic called it "utterly wrongheaded", another "a stoned nightmare", and it closed within a month

Louder

Joan Baez: I Am a Noise review – intimate doc about the folk legend and activist

Recovered memories of abuse are alluded to but not explored in this often painful look back at the sensational life and career of a true icon of counterculture

The Guardian - UK

Holding the Note by David Remnick review – erudite portraits of musical greats

A collection of the New Yorker editor’s pieces on the likes of Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and Aretha Franklin displays enviable knowledge and scope

The Guardian - UK

Len Chandler obituary

American folk singer and civil rights activist who performed with Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Pete Seeger

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The Chemical Brothers: ‘We played on top of a toilet block with sequencers on the loo’

As they head out on tour and publish a visual memoir, the dance duo answer your questions on their greatest gig, courting Kate Bush and Bob Dylan, and dismaying Björk with slap bass

Salon

Joan Baez on leaving "an honest legacy"

On "Everything Fab Four," the folk legend recalls her roles in history-making events

Chicago Sun-Times

Bob Dylan delivers the unexpected in adventurous musical journey at Cadillac Palace show

At 82, Dylan remains willing to defy expectations and take risks with even his newest material. The impression made while playing his music is that Bob Dylan remains playful.

The Independent UK

The Who’s Pete Townshend: How Keir Starmer confronted me about ‘child pornography’ on my computer

The guitarist talks to Kevin E G Perry about his 2003 arrest, his Seventies eco-meltdown rock opera, and how he feels about Rishi Sunak’s Tories

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Joan Baez: ‘I talk to trees to get answers. They give it to you cold turkey’

As a documentary of her life is released, the folk singer answers your questions on spirituality, competing with Joni Mitchell and running around naked at Burning Man

The Independent UK

Movie Review: Her voice is lower, but Joan Baez has songs to sing and secrets to tell in new doc

Joan Baez was once a teenager with a guitar around her neck singing “We Shall Overcome.”

The Guardian - UK

Post your questions for Carol and Velvet Underground director Todd Haynes

The influential director’s latest film, May December, is coming to cinemas soon. Here’s your chance to ask him about this and other provocative work, from Carol to I’m Not There

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America’s new print-only newspaper reinvents the art of reading slowly

The retro-look County Highway costs $8.50, is published six times a year – and will never be available online

The Guardian - UK

PJ Harvey review – Dorset ghosts come alive

The uncanny world of the singer-songwriter’s first album in six years acquires a more corporeal form on stage, alongside a satisfying deep dive into her back catalogue

Evening Standard

Sir Mick Jagger suggests he’ll give $500m fortune from back catalogue to charity and not his kids

Sir Mick Jagger has suggested that his share of the Rolling Stones’ back catalogue will be donated to charity rather than left to his eight children.

The Guardian - UK

The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2: 1966-2021 by Clinton Heylin review – a fierce kind of love

The Dylan scholar won’t accept any criticism of his idol unless he himself is wielding the sword in his latest exhaustive attempt to understand the ultimate unreliable narrator

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