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Featured Artist: Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan's influence on popular music is incalculable. As a songwriter, he pioneered several different schools of pop songwriting, from confessional singer/songwriter to winding, hallucinatory, stream of conscious narratives. As a vocalist, he broke down the notion that a singer must have a conventionally good voice in order to perform, thereby redefining the vocalist's role in popular music. As a musician, he sparked several genres of pop music, including electrified folk-rock and...
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Billboard Bits: Dylan, 'Gabba Gabba,' Shelton/Lambert
Amazon.com today (Sept. 8) premiered the video for a new Bob Dylan song, "Dreamin' of You," starring veteran character actor Harry Dean Stanton as a Dylan bootlegger traveling the country to peddle...
September 08, 2008
Billboard Bits: Bob Dylan, 'Gossip Girl,' Kinky
Bob Dylan is for the first time endorsing a line of harmonicas. Made by Richmond, Va.-based Hohner USA, the harmonicas are called the Bob Dylan Signature Series and feature a machine stamp of Dylan's...
August 28, 2008
Bob Dylan / Aug. 12, 2008 / Brooklyn, N.Y. (Prospect Park Bandshell)
A sold-out crowd gathered at Brooklyn's Prospect Park Bandshell to hear the man romp and growl through 17 cuts from his storied catalog, from iconic acoustic staples like "Highway 61 Revisited" to...
August 13, 2008
Tall Tales
Bob Dylan fans are in for a treat with "Tell Tale Signs," a triple-disc rarities collection that will be the eighth volume in the artist's "Bootleg Series" via Columbia.
October 05, 2008
New Guns N' Roses Song Heads To 'Rock Band'
A new Guns N' Roses song, "Shackler's Revenge," from the decade-in-the-works album "Chinese Democracy," will be included in the video game "Rock Band 2" in September. Also included will be a...
July 14, 2008
Billboard Bits: Nine Inch Nails, Van Morrison, Diamond/Death Cab
Nine Inch Nails is planning to release a branded version of the popular iPhone music game "TapTap Revenge."
October 01, 2008
Industry Legend Jerry Wexler Dies At 91
Music industry legend Jerry Wexler, who kick-started his career as a Billboard journalist in the late 1940s and went on to cultivate the careers of Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Led Zeppelin while...
August 15, 2008
Susan Tedeschi Ready To Rock On New Album
Singer/songwriter Susan Tedeschi is planning a fall release for her fifth studio album, which is being produced by George Drakoulias (Black Crowes, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers).
August 04, 2008
Lucinda Williams Plots Protest Songs EP
Alongside her ninth studio record, "Little Honey" (Oct. 14, Lost Highway) and a hefty fall tour, Lucinda Williams will on Oct. 28 release a digital-only EP of protest songs, Billboard.com can reveal.
September 16, 2008
Rockers Band Together For Obama Events
The National, the Breeders and My Morning Jacket's Jim James have joined the roster of musicians pledging their support for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
September 24, 2008
Billboard Underground: Deer Tick
Some think Deer Tick is a stage name, but it's actually the work of a band fronted by John McCauley. The act's 2007 debut, "War Elephant" (Feow Records), a mostly McCauley recording, showcased such...
August 16, 2008
'Something' For Everyone
Hoping to repeat the success of 2006's "The Evolution of Robin Thicke," the R&B singer/songwriter will release his third album, "Something Else," this week via Star Trak/Interscope.
September 28, 2008
Conor Goes Country
Like many young, hip kids nearing the end of their 20s, Conor Oberst is slightly torn, a little jaded and mighty contemplative.
August 03, 2008
Bob Dylan Unveils Triple-Disc Rarities Set
Bob Dylan fans are in for a treat this fall, in the form of "Tell Tale Signs," a triple-disc rarities collection that will be the eighth volume in the artist's "Bootleg Series." The project arrives...
July 29, 2008
Robin Thicke: White Like Me
It's an unusually hot and humid summer night in Hollywood. A murmuring line of fans -- mostly women --snakes around the Sunset Boulevard perimeter of the House of Blues. They're waiting for one thing...
September 19, 2008
The Billboard Q&A: Loudon Wainwright III
Since the late 1960s when he emerged on the New York and Boston folk scenes as a sharp and promising young songwriter, Loudon Wainwright III hasn't paused for a second.
September 04, 2008
Chart Beat Chat: Elton John, 'The Twist,' AC/DC
Fred and his readers discuss Elton John, "The Twist," AC/DC and more!
October 31, 2008
Chart Beat: Carrie Underwood, Labelle, AC/DC
Fred discusses chart action from AC/DC, Carrie Underwood, Labelle and more.
October 30, 2008
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Dream Theater Debuts Atop Euro Chart
Europe welcomes a new bestseller on the composite European Top 100 Albums chart, as New York rock outfit Dream Theater's "Black Clouds and Silver Linings" (Roadrunner) opens its account at No. 1.
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