L.A. Times - Entertainment — Daniel Kottke knew Steve Jobs before he was Steve Jobs. It was 1972 when Kottke met the future tech icon at Reed College in Portland, Ore. Both young men shared enthusiasm for Eastern philosophy, Bob Dylan, vegetarianism and LSD. Five years later, Ko... more info

Stereogum — Bob Dylan’s catalog is an eternal font of rarities and alternate takes, and the newest installment of Dylan’s Bootleg Series, The Cutting Edge 1965-1966, collects previously unreleased material from the era of Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 6... more info

Stereogum — Bob Dylan showed up in a couple of Super Bowl ad spots last year, and now he’s appearing in a new commercial for IBM, as Pitchfork points out. The clip features Dylan chatting with IBM’s AI computer system Watson — Watson tells Dylan that it’... more info

Reuters — LONDON (Reuters) - "I need a dump truck mama to unload my head," Bob Dylan sang on his raucous 1965 B-side "From A Buick 6". more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Rumors were flying all summer about a massive Bootleg Series covering Bob Dylan’s unbelievable, earth-shaking 1965-66 period. And hey, the rumors were true. The Cutting Edge (available in 2-, 6- and 18-(!!!) disc versions) draws back the curtain on... more info

Stereogum — I hope Bob Dylan never stops putting out box sets. As long as there are diehard Dylan fans who will buy each and every anthology, I think they might as well be served with all the rarities, outtakes, and odds-and-ends that Columbia and Dylan can scra... more info

Stereogum — “Big Pink,” the West Saugerties house where Bob Dylan and the Band holed up and recorded most of the music that would eventually become the legendary Basement Tapes, can now be rented, as JamBase points out. The going rate for living amongst musi... more info

Reuters — (Reuters) - A draft of the lyrics for Bob Dylan's protest song "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" is going up for auction in London next month and is expected to fetch up to 200,000 pounds ($314,000 dollars), Sotheby's auction house said on Tuesday. more info

The Independent — The original type-written manuscript for one of Bob Dylan's best songs is going up for auction at Sotheby's in London. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Atlantic examined the unlikely resurgence in popularity of the works of H.P. Lovecraft. The A.V. Club reconsidered Bob Dylan's classic Blood on the Tracks album. Longreads features an excerpt from Summer Brennan's book The Oyster War. Iron and Wi... more info