Monthly Archives: December 2014

Details for Bob Dylan’s ‘Shadows In The Night’ Covers Album Revealed- Dylan Says He’s ‘ bringing [these songs] into the light of day’

This from Bob Dylan’s official website:

Columbia Records announced today that Bob Dylan’s new studio album, Shadows In The Night, will be released on February 3, 2015. Featuring ten tracks, the Jack Frost-produced album is the 36th studio set from Bob Dylan and marks the first new music from the artist since 2012’s worldwide hit Tempest.

Upon Columbia’s announcement of the album’s forthcoming release, Bob Dylan commented, “It was a real privilege to make this album. I’ve wanted to do something like this for a long time but was never brave enough to approach 30-piece complicated arrangements and refine them down for a 5-piece band. That’s the key to all these performances. We knew these songs extremely well. It was all done live. Maybe one or two takes. No overdubbing. No vocal booths. No headphones. No separate tracking, and, for the most part, mixed as it was recorded. I don’t see myself as covering these songs in any way. They’ve been covered enough. Buried, as a matter a fact. What me and my band are basically doing is uncovering them. Lifting them out of the grave and bringing them into the light of day.”

As Columbia Records Chairman Rob Stringer explains, “There are no strings, obvious horns, background vocals or other such devices often found on albums that feature standard ballads. Instead, Bob has managed to find a way to infuse these songs with new life and contemporary relevance. It is a brilliant record and we are extremely excited to be presenting it to the world very soon.”

SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT TRACK LISTING:

1. I’m A Fool To Want You
2. The Night We Called It A Day
3. Stay With Me
4. Autumn Leaves
5. Why Try to Change Me Now
6. Some Enchanted Evening
7. Full Moon And Empty Arms
8. Where Are You?
9. What’ll I Do
10. That Lucky Old Sun

Shadows In The Night is available now for pre-order on iTunes and Amazon.
New album “Shadows In The Night” Out Feb. 3

[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” Rolling Stone has a great review of my book in a recent issue. Read it here. There’s info about True Love Scars here.]

Audio/Video: Bob Dylan at the Beacon – ‘Pay In Blood,’ ‘Early Roman Kings’ & 6 More

Murky, but it is Dylan.

Bob Dylan performed in New York at the Beacon Theater over the course of the last week or so.

Here are audio/video files from a few shows. The audio is quite good.

Enjoy.

“Beyond Here Lies Nothing,” Nov. 29, 2014 show:

Another fan video.

“Beyond Here Lies Nothing,” Nov. 29, 2014 show:

“Early Roman Kings,” Nov. 29, 2014 show (note that the video itself is mislabeled):

“Waiting For You” (excerpt), Nov. 29, 2014 show:

“Pay In Blood,” Dec. 2014 show:

“Tangled Up In Blue,” Nov. 29, 2014 show:

“Love Sick,” Dec. 2014 show:

“Simple Twist Of Fate,” Nov. 29, 2014 show:

Another fan video:

“Simple Twist Of Fate,” Nov. 29, 2014 show:

“Forgetful Heart,” Nov. 29, 2014 show:

“Long And Wasted Years”:

“Blowin’ In The Wind,” Nov. 29, 2014 show:

“Blowin’ In The Wind,” Dec. 2, 2013 show:

“Stay With Me,” Nov. 29, 2014 show:

“Stay With Me,” December 3, 2014 show:

Audio: PJ Harvey’s Version of Bob Dylan’s ‘Highway 61 Revisited’

Cool version of “Highway 61 Revisited” off PJ Harvey’s second album, Rid Of Me.

[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” Rolling Stone has a great review of my book in a recent issue. Read it here. There’s info about True Love Scars here.]

Audio: Hear American Music Club Cover Bob Dylan’s ‘Queen Jane Approximately’

In 2005 Uncut magazine included a CD, Highway 61 Revisited Revisited, of Bob Dylan covers with one of their issues, and one of those covers, “Queen Jane Approximately,” was by the great San Francisco band, American Music Club.

Check it out:

[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” Rolling Stone has a great review of my book in a recent issue. Read it here. There’s info about True Love Scars here.]

Video: Jeff Bridges Narrates ‘Basement Tapes’ Promo – ‘From The Village to The Basement’

Big Pink

To the soundtrack of “This Wheels On Fire,” Jeff Bridges tells a version of the ‘Basement Tapes’ story in three and a half minutes as time lapse footage takes us from Manhattan to Big Pink.

Check it out.

[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” Rolling Stone has a great review of my book in a recent issue. Read it here. There’s info about True Love Scars here.]

Video: Watch Bob Dylan’s Classic Dec. 3, 1965 San Francisco Press Conference

Forty-nine years ago, on Friday, December 3, 1965, this Bob Dylan press conference was recorded at KQED’s studios in San Francisco.

The press conference happened at a key point in Dylan’s career. He was now a rock star. “Like A Rolling Stone” was a hit and had been on the radio the past summer into fall. Highway 61 Revisited had been released three months earlier, in August.

Dylan was in the Bay Area to perform for two nights — Dec. 3 and Dec. 4 — at the Berkeley Community Theater.

The man who brings Dylan out is Ralph J. Gleason, who at the time was the jazz and pop critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, and a fan of Dylan. Gleason wrote this cover story for Ramparts magazine. It ran in the March 1966 issue.

There’s some great details about the press conference here, plus photos.

Bob Dylan press conference, part 1:

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[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” Rolling Stone has a great review of my book in a recent issue. Read it here. There’s info about True Love Scars here.]

Audio: Hear New Sleater-Kinney Track, ‘Surface Envy’

Today we get another track off the upcoming Sleater-Kinney album, No Cities To Love, out on Sub Pop January 20, 2015.

The song is “Surface Envy,” and if the previous song, “Bury Our Friends,” didn’t wake you up to the fact that Sleater-Kinney are back, this one should do the trick.

Dig it!

And if you missed it, here’s “Bury Our Friends”:


[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” Rolling Stone has a great review of my book in a recent issue. Read it here. There’s info about True Love Scars here.]

Santa Cruz Sentinel Digs ‘True Love Scars’ – ‘I was trying to take the rock & roll of that time and get it on the page’

This article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel about my novel, True Love Scars, was published recently.

I think the article does a great job of conveying some of what the book is about.

Writes journalist Wallace Baine:

The period of the early 1970s isn’t just a setting for Michael Goldberg’s new novel “True Love Scars.” It’s the orientation for everything in the book, the language, the tone, the references, the narrative.

“I was trying to get at the experience of being young in that time period,” said UC Santa Cruz grad Goldberg, a long-time writer for Rolling Stone. “Not just the drugs and the sex, but the deeper stuff, trying to figure out who you are in the world. I was trying to take the rock & roll of that time and get it on the page.”

The result is an unusual story, fueled by a prose designed to evoke the rambunctious, radical music of the era, with a rhythm and poetic sensibility much more like the rock records of the time than many other novels.

And at the end of the story:

[Goldberg] talks about one scene in the book taking place on the houseboats of Sausalito. “I was listening to the Stones’ (1971 album) ‘Sticky Fingers’ over and over again while I was writing that, really trying to get the mood of that album on the page. I wanted the chapter to feel like what it was like to listen to some of those songs in that period.

“Frankly, I think the ‘sound’ of the narration is quite original. The big idea that I kept in mind as I wrote was that anything goes, that this was as if a 24-year-old and his friend went to a bar in 1975, had a few drinks and then the 24-year-old turned to his friend and said, ‘Let me tell you how my heart was broken…’”

To read the rest of the story, head here.

I’ll be doing a very special reading in the Bay Area on Dec. 13 at 3 pm. As I read, Grammy-winning experimental guitarist Henry Kaiser will improvise on guitar.

The event, titled “a post-beat happening – words + guitar,” will take place at Down Home Music in El Cerrito, CA. Be there!

[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” Rolling Stone has a great review of my book in a recent issue. Read it here. There’s info about True Love Scars here.]

Video: Savages & Bo Ningen Perform ‘simultaneous sonic poem’ – Watch Now!

Here’s a 37 minute collaboration between Savages and Bo Ningen.

Clash Magazine reports:

Billed as a ‘simultaneous sonic poem’, the performance was a molten, volcanic flood of ideas. Taking control of London’s Oval Space venue, the collective spewed forth 37 minutes of inspiration, deeply improvisational music.

Released as ‘Words To The Blind’ via Stolen/Pop Noire, Boiler Room were on hand to film proceedings.


Savages & Bo Ningen Boiler Room London Live Set by brtvofficial

[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” Rolling Stone has a great review of my book in a recent issue. Read it here. There’s info about True Love Scars here.]

Dylan Expert Greil Marcus’ Column Has Moved Online Again – Read It Now!

Greil Marcus

Noted Dylan expert Greil Marcus has been writing his “Real Life Top 10” column since the ’70s, when it ran monthly in New West magazine.

The column has appeared in a variety of publications since then including Artforum, Salon, and most recently, The Believer.

Although I was able to reprint older columns at Addicted To Noise during the late ’90s and early 2000s, it wasn’t until Salon picked the column up in the mid-2000s that new columns appeared online each month.

And once Greil located it at The Believer, it was only available in print.

Well now that’s changed, and the column is currently available for all to read online each month at the Barnes & Noble Review.

A new column just went online here.

Marcus is the author many books including The Old, Weird America: Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes, Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads and Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968–2010. His most recent book is The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs.

[I just published my rock ‘n’ roll novel, True Love Scars.” Rolling Stone has a great review of my book in a recent issue. Read it here. There’s info about True Love Scars here.]