In juggling more styles than the group has ever attempted on a single album, the through line is a refreshing live feel that grounds Down on Earth in reality. Longtime front-of-house engineer Zac ...

If Weird Revolution – an interesting sideways step rather than a debacle – was erased from existence and memory, After the Astronaut would feel like a rousing and often powerful end to a career of ...

Relatively early in A Prayer for the Dying, a man whose son is afflicted with a particular kind of plague compares his current situation to the Biblical character of Abraham—or, more specifically, the ...

It’s rare to finish reading a book of moral philosophy and immediately want to pass it on to your friends, but Call It Evil is that book. Urgent, sharply written, fascinating and extremely readable, ...

As enormously successful and highly praised as The Kick Inside was, it may be surprising that several of its tracks have ended up at the low end of our ratings. Perhaps less remarkable is the ...

None of the songs on the new album are particularly unconventional, so it is puzzling to learn that the original objection from the film producers was that James and Reitzell were straying too far ...

Bob Dylan isn’t Homer – or even a Joyce, Woolf or Baldwin – but he’s a particular kind of pop genius with no counterpart. We often lump him with the Beatles and the Stones. But those two bands peaked ...

It was less than a year ago that Juice WRLD (aka Jarad Higgins) released his debut album, Goodbye and Good Riddance. Since then, Higgins has had a hit single, “Lucid Dreams,” reach number two on the ...

“If Not for You” After essentially changing the face of popular music in the 1960s, Dylan’s 1970s was typified by a desire to return to some sort of simplicity, as evidenced by New Morning, the ...

Although Live from Glastonbury doesn’t offer much that Olivia Rodrigo fans haven’t heard before, the recording caps off another successful album cycle for the 22-year-old in enthusiastic fashion.

Part of what these lists have been doing is telling a story about Dylan’s career. From the constant reinvention of the ’60s, to the musical prime of the ’70s and up to the revelatory wilderness of the ...