JamBase — Elvis Perkins in Dearland Debut Album and Tour Dates Elvis Perkins in Dearland XL Recordings is pleased to announce the forthcoming release from Elvis Perkins in Dearland. The album, self-titled, will be released on March 10, 2009. This albu... more info

Paste Magazine — Andrew Bird 's new disc, Noble Beast , won't be released until Jan. 20 (on Fat Possum Records ) but that isn't stopping NPR from streaming the CD early on its site (with permission, of course). The preview is NPR's fourth installment of its Exc... more info

The Good, The Bad and The Unknown — 1969 might be the best year for music...ever. The albums that didn't make the list are better than most albums that top the list for other years. Debuts from Crosby Stills Nash, Blood Sweat & Tears, Mott The Hoople, Santana, and Moby Grape all didn'... more info

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Spinner.com — Filed under: News Today, Oh Boy!Spinner.com: Beck, TV on the Radio, and Lily Allen will cover rock classics from artists such as Bob Dylan and David Bowie for the War Child International charity produced album, 'Heroes,' out Febraury 24 via Astralw... more info

Spinner.com — Filed under: News, R.I.P.Spinner.com: William Zantzinger, whose notorious killing of a black woman in 1963 inspired Bob Dylan's 'The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,' died January 3 at the age of 69. The song was inspired by an incident that occurr... more info

NME — The real life killer who was the subject of Bob Dylan's song 'The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll', has died. more info

ABC NewsMan whose conviction Dylan sang about diesHouston Chronicle - 11 hours agoBy DOUGLAS MARTIN William Devereux Zantzinger, whose six-month sentence in the fatal caning of a black barmaid named Hattie Carroll at a Baltimore charity ball moved Bo... more info

Associated Press — CHARLOTTE HALL, Md. (AP) -- William Zantzinger, a wealthy Maryland landowner whose fatal beating of a black barmaid was recounted in a Bob Dylan protest song of the 1960s, was buried Friday. He was 69.... more info

Los Angeles TimesWilliam Zantzinger; Infamous After Dylan Song 'Hattie Carroll'Washington Post - 4 hours agoBy Adam Bernstein On Feb. 8, 1963, a young, socially prominent tobacco farmer from Southern Maryland named William Devereux Zantzinger got un... more info