L.A. Times - Entertainment — The legend is fascinating, the person even more so. Her future boyfriend and sometime musical partner Bob Dylan was still in high school in Minnesota when Joan Baez first played Club 4... more info

Rolling Stone — After spending the last decade posting the symphonic Soft Bulletin, fighting Pink Robots and waving “The W.A.N.D.,” the Flaming Lips return their acid-soaked roots with their 12th album Embryonic, out today. A double-disc affair of Miles Davis-in... more info

Stereogum — Robert Zimmerman's Christmas In The Heart is out today and features a ton of covers of Xmas classics. Also, this is one time the Jack Frost production alias makes great sense. Hear "Must Be Santa" at dylanchristmas.skyroo.com. more info

Allmusic Blog — Bob Dylan - Christmas in the Heart After the initial shock fades, the existence of Christmas in the Heart seems perhaps inevitable. After all, the thing Bob Dylan loves most of all are songs that are handed down from generation to generation, songs t... more info

411 Mania — Plus new stuff from John Mellencamp, Joss Stone, Sick Puppies and Special Agent DiNozzo... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — While recuperating I've been listening to a lot of Atlas Sound (maybe too much), but have also been spinning another "A" artist with Alec Ounsworth's new solo LP Mo Beauty. The frontman of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah has had an interesting career thus ... more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: Hill/FilmMagic An unreleased Bob Dylan song called “California” is set to debut on the NCIS: The Official TV Soundtrack – Vol. 2 compilation on November 3rd. According to a press release, “California” was recorded in 1965 during... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — In the third excerpt from his new book, rock critic Robert Hilburn sits down with a couple of today's titans to gauge the future. After John Lennon's death in ... more info

USA Today Music — Twenty years after singing the somber Ring Them Bells, he has attached them to a sleigh, painted them silver and given them a ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — It's beginning to look a lot like Chritmas, especially among this week's music releases. Bob Dylan's Christmas In the Heart is in stores tomorrow, along with Aretha Franklin's This Christmas, the Jackson 5's Ultimate Christmas Collection, and Neil Di... more info