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Notes on opening night of Bruce Springsteen's MAGIC TOUR with the E Street Band Hartford Civic Center, Connecticut October 2, 2007 (Listen today, Thursday 10/4, for the WBUR story, podcast archived this afternoon.) LEAD: Bruce Springsteen, a spry 58 years young, proved once again that rock'n'roll … [Read more...]

from David Runciman in the London Review of Books: What has gone is the traditional magic of pop radio that came, as Dylan describes it in his memoirs, from the experience of tuning the dial and having to settle for the best you could find. There are no more dials to tune. Instead, on digital radio, … [Read more...]

Finally, a blues guitarist with the soul of a trombonist. Putting a junkheap like "Peculiar Hop" as the lead track takes a seriously loose screw, covering Dylan without the lyrics ups the ante ("Rainy Day #12 & 35"), but it's the rare guitar hero who literalizes the mood of the country ("Dig Myself … [Read more...]

STEALTH COVERS Blender's new list starts off with "Jersey Girl," popularized by Bruce Springsteen, originally performed by Tom Waits, as obvious as it is predictable. The lead track on this list is still "Tainted Love," which everybody STILL thinks it's fey 80s Britpop. We learned more from the … [Read more...]

On last Friday's Front Porch with Eric Lott talking about the Dartmouth Dylan conference. … [Read more...]

"Does this Leonard Cohen trib pic have too many Canadians? Yes. Does he come from Montreal? Of course. Do they give Rufus two songs when Teddy T. has the better voice? Absolutely. Should they have interviewed some critics to provide a larger context? You bet. And where's Bruce Cockburn? Rebecca … [Read more...]

CAN YOU UNDERSTAND MY PAIN?"* Despite some SHAMELESS name-dropping (never a good sign), Goldstein's "Satellite Dylan" piece in The Nation (nice cover!) steers things back to the bard's misogyny, which he usually skates on: I don't claim that Dylan is determined by machismo -- there's much more … [Read more...]

THE BOB DYLAN ENCYCLOPEDIA by Michael Gray (832 pp, Continuum) While not the David Thomson of rock, Gray aims pretty high, and hits enough marks to keep you going back for more (see Marcus, Greil, and Lee, CP). Without ever describing his tone or solo style, his incisive entry on Robbie Robertson … [Read more...]

When Tierney and Brooks replaced Safire, I made some crack about how that would be bad for the wordmeister's ego. Now it's not so funny: in today's column, Brooks misrepresents a half-century of cultural politics so lamely you'd think you were reading a Murdoch rag: But by the late 1960's, … [Read more...]

SCORSESE'S DYLAN No Direction Home DVD and CD sountrack (Apple/Sony Legacy) dunno if this will get posted as an mp3, they were in the middle of fundraising. Check this page. WAIT 35 YEARS FOR JUDAS And then three show up: CP Lee (QT) … [Read more...]

I've read a lot of commentary, And Editor and Publisher's Greg Mitchell called the NYTimes Sunday spread "the gift that keeps on giving..." But I still think this is the most vexing piece of the Judy Miller saga: Although she told friends that she was feeling isolated and frustrated, Ms. Miller said … [Read more...]

From WNYC's Soundcheck here. Honk if you're oriental. SCORSESE'S DYLAN This is from Monday; if you missed this, pick it up. I coulda been harder on it, the Tom Paine Award speech is pretty much fudged over, as are all the drugs. But this is inspired filmmaking, great use of source material, every … [Read more...]

My No Direction Home review will go live from this page at app. 12:50 pm today, watch this space for the link later this week. Don't miss Scorsese's Dylan tonight and tomorrow. TOMORROW Beatle roundup on WNYC's Soundcheck 2-3 pm. TOMORROW NIGHT TUESDAY, SEPT 27, 7:00pm (NOT 7:30!) with Rolling … [Read more...]