NME.COM - Reviews Blog — One of the most cutting Little Britain sketches has to be their send up of actor Dennis Waterman. For those of you unfamiliar with the 80s heartthrob's work, he was a UK television star who had the habit of recording the theme music for the series he... more info

Guardian Music — The Borderline, LondonEd Sheeran is one of a new breed of singer-songwriters who have accrued a large following from aggressive social networking and relentless gigging. The atmosphere tonight isn't what you might expect from a sensitive troubadour s... more info

Scotsman.com — SEVENTY years ago this month in small-town Minnesota, Robert Allen Zimmerman was born into a family of Jewish immigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe. more info

Guardian Music — My older sister, who will be 70 on 22 May and in London for her birthday, is almost exactly the same age as Bob Dylan (Report, 14 May). When she was a student at the University of Minnesota she became friends with a wannabe folk singer from Hibbing, ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — A Nod to Bob 2: An Artists Tribute to Bob Dylan on his 70th Birthday collects cover songs by Lucy Kaplansky, Pieta Brown, Eliza Gilkyson, and others. Girls in Trouble's Half You Half Me is one of the year's... more info

Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonMartin Carthy may have influenced Bob Dylan and Paul Simon and become a British folk legend, but he has always been an easy-going, modest performer, and that wasn't going to change just because he is about to turn 70. He s... more info

The Independent — The voice of a generation isn’t easily silenced. Not according to Bob Dylan, who has issued a rare public statement denying speculation that he gave in to government censors by agreeing not to perform 60s-era protest songs during his recent tour o... more info

Guardian Music — Greil Marcus's collection of pieces on Dylan is both poetic and testy"What is this shit?" opened Greil Marcus's Rolling Stone review of Bob Dylan's 1970 double album Self Portrait. According to Dylan, the depths of whose perversity can seem, on occ... more info

Guardian Music — Randy Newman might be one of the pre-eminent songwriters of his generation, but that hasn't stopped many of his best-known songs from being misunderstoodRandy Newman sits at the piano in the London showroom of Steinway & Sons and absent-mindedly tink... more info

ContactMusic — Bob Dylan has blasted accusations that he gave in to censorship during a recent series of concerts in China. According to BBC News, Bob Dylan had agreed to give authorities set lists before performances in Shanghai and Beijing. The 69-year-old.... more info