Happy Friday! Here’s your look at some of the latest music videos to surface in the Minnesota music scene, starting with the first release from UMAMI in over two years… UMAMI After performing off and on for a few years and taking a lengthy hiatus to record new music, UMAMI are back—and they have a mind-bending,…

Elvis earned his first Gold album, James Taylor appeared on television, AC/DC released their first album, Franz Ferdinand swept a bunch of awards, and Johnny Cash re-recorded "Girl From The North Country" with Bob Dylan Today in Music History.

Bob Dylan accepted the annual MusiCares Person of the Year award on Friday night with a long speech that started with an acknowledgement of John Hammond—the legendary A&R man who signed Dylan to Columbia Records—and went on to thank many of the artists who helped popularize Dylan’s work, including Peter, Paul & Mary, Jimi Hendrix, and Joan Baez. Dylan also…

Bob Dylan: Shadows in the Night One of the most acclaimed and prolific artists of all time, Bob Dylan, released his new studio album Shadows in the Night today. The album marks studio album number 36 for Dylan. The songs were recorded live in the studio with Dylan’s five-piece band, in the order they appear on the album. Shadows in…

As he prepares to release his new album Shadows in the Night, Bob Dylan gave a long interview to AARP’s magazine—ironic, given that the septuagenarian is anything but retired. In the interview, he talks about the process of recording the new album (he says all the songs were recorded in the order they appear on the album),…

B.B. King made a donation, The Coasters made Rock and Roll Hall of Fame history, and The Byrds covered Dylan Today in Music History.

Dylan Days, the annual Hibbing celebration of the Iron Range city’s most famous former resident, has been put on “indefinite hiatus,” with the event’s organizing committee disbanding. According to a statement from the committee, they are stepping aside and encouraging fans to focus on the annual Duluth Dylan Fest instead, with some associated events to be…

On Sunday at Philadelphia’s Academy of Music, Bob Dylan played a four-song show for an audience of just one person: Fredrik Wikingsson, a 41-year-old Swedish man described as a Dylan “superfan.” Wikingsson will just have a couple of weeks to savor his solo experience, though: the show, which apparently consisted entirely of covers, was filmed for…

Another day, another revelation of something surpassingly strange that Bob Dylan almost did once. Yesterday it was the album he tried to make with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in 1969, and today it’s the surrealist slapstick comedy series he pitched to HBO in the 90s. Larry Charles, a writer and director best known for his work…

Glyn Johns, a producer and sound engineer who’s worked with everyone from the Who to the Clash to the Eagles, is about to release a memoir titled Sound Man. Among the stories he recounts is an episode from 1969 when Bob Dylan asked Johns if the Beatles and the Rolling Stones might be interested in making album with him. Johns excitedly approached the two…