‘A Complete Unknown’ has Dylan-mania sweeping the country — is that a good thing?
Some longtime fans bristle as legions of new fans embrace a Hollywood version of rock 'n' roll's greatest poet
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Critics say Kendrick Lamar was too loud and hard to understand — they said the same thing about Bob Dylan in Newport
Lamar’s politically charged halftime show and Dylan’s 1965 Newport performance both upset precedent
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‘A Complete Unknown’ forgot about this legendary Jewish rocker, but history will remember Barry Goldberg
Goldberg overcame an abusive childhood in Chicago to jam with the greats
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Louisville Orchestra remembers its concertmaster with an opera he performed in a Nazi concentration camp
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Nova massacre survivor Yuval Raphael to represent Israel in 2025 Eurovision music contest
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50 years later, Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ remains the standard by which all albums are measured
In 1975, Dylan introduced a whole new way of songwriting
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Bob Dylan joins TikTok — just in time for TikTok to be banned
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In lawsuit, Drake accuses Kendrick Lamar of picking on ‘Jewish heritage’
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Peter Yarrow sang the soundtrack to my Jewish childhood
He never led with his Jewishness, but consistently invoked the mandate of 'tikkun olam'
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How Yo La Tengo’s Hanukkah shows became the most joyous bash of the holiday season
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For Bob Dylan’s biographer, ‘A Complete Unknown’ is a dream come true — even if it’s mostly fiction
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