Guardian Music — Weighing up true love against the cold truth of mortality – the amorous and the anatomical – is a surprisingly effective wooing techniqueA friend of mine recently lent me a copy of some collected short stories written by the American wr... more info

Live Daily — This week's "In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement," was held one day early, Feb. 10, due to a new snowstorm moving in on the country's capital, according to a New York Times report. The concert, ... more info

Pop Crunch — In his first performance ever at the White House, folk legend Bob Dylan performed his classic “The Times, They are a Changin” during The Obamas’ White House concert, which airs on PBS stations nationwide tonight, Feb. 11 @ 8 PM ET. more info

Undercover, Australia — Bob Dylan performed for the first time ever at the White House on Tuesday night along with John Mellencamp, Smokey Robinson and a few other famous friends. more info

Perez Hilton — Branching out, we see. Bob Dylan's first ever art show will open this Saturday at the Halycon Gallery in London. The paintings on canvas were based on drawings and sketches Bob made while on the road between 1989 and 1992. He says of his art, "I jus... more info

Guardian Music — The concert, to mark black history month, featured songs and readings by Bob Dylan, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Jennifer Hudson, Smokey Robinson, and Morgan Freeman more info

Guardian Music — Barack Obama joins musicians on stage at end of White House bash celebrating music of civil rights eraBarack Obama last night hosted a celebration of the music of the civil rights era, describing it as "a movement with a soundtrack".The president ack... more info

Guardian Music — Uncompromising Scots singer-songwriter and founder of the folk-punk band Roaring JackAlistair Hulett, who has died of cancer aged 58, was an outspoken, staunchly leftwing singer and songwriter who built up a dedicated following in his native Scotland... more info

Rolling Stone — Joan Baez has been added to “In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement,” a PBS special airing this Thursday, February 11th. Baez joins a lineup that includes her partner at the 1963 March on Washingt... more info

Chicago Sun-Times, IL — A prolific home-studio musician in the tradition of the Magnetic Fields -- he claims to have written and recorded 300 songs to date -- Osvaldo Paese is an earnest young singer and songwriter with seemingly boundless ambition and a wildly diverse set ... more info