L.A. Times - Entertainment — Want to test your vocal mettle against the Bard of Rock? A new microsite is being launched in conjunction with the recent release of “Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 — The Cutting Edge” album, allowing would-be spokesmen and women for the... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Marie Claire UK recommended graphic novels by women you need to read. Anna March recommended books about Bob Dylan at The Rumpus. 45 year-end "best books of 2015" lists were added to the Largehearted Boy master aggregation yesterday (bringing the... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Grimes' Art Angels, one of my favorite albums of the year, is the week's new music highlight. With winter coming several holiday collections have been reissued. Archival releases include the six-CD edition of Bob Dylan's The Cutting Edge 1965-1966:..... more info

Stereogum — The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12, the newest massive box set in Bob Dylan’s equally massive series of box sets, is coming out next week. It collects outtakes, rehearsal tracks, and alternate versions of songs from Bringing It ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Chicago Tribune profiled author Salman Rushdie. "I figure writing is not worth doing if you are not taking risks," he said. "Otherwise nothing interesting will happen. There is in the process a lot of trial and error. I take... more info

Time — Outtakes from his most fertile era are the ballads of a spin man more info

Stereogum — Lionel Richie is the latest legacy artist to be honored with the MusiCares Person Of The Year award — last year’s was Bob Dylan — and the organization has just announced who will be performing at the gala’s tribute concert. Stevie Wonder, Pha... more info

Reuters — LONDON (Reuters) - Had you seen Bob Dylan reinventing popular music on the stage of London's Royal Albert Hall in 1966, you would never have believed that nearly 50 years later he would be treading the same boards and crooning the songs of Frank Sina... more info

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