Uncut's Bob Dylan birthday special issue, their fifth, went onsale May 2. It's not a regular monthly issue, but a special supplementary issue commerating Dylan's birthday. Of course I bought it, but somehow lost it during my recent move. If I find it, I will scan it for this page, but meanwhile, read about the issue's "40 greatest Dylan songs" list at ananova.com: 'Dylan's greatest track' - magazine poll

Since the May news was posted so late, Hibbing's Dylan birthday celebration, "Dylan Days 2002," has come and gone, but check out the details for next year's Dylan Days.

More about the "Dylan Days" from the Daily Tribune: Don't close the curtain; Dylan Days are near

Unlike his earlier novel Tarantula, Bob Dylan's autobiography appears to be on schedule for October publication. Expecting Rain posted a Simon & Schuster promotional advertisement for Dylan's Chronicles: Volume 1.

From the Providence Journal, an anticipatory article about the Dylan's August appearance at the 2002 Newport Folk FestivalDylan to return to Newport folk fest

Another anticipatory article about Newport 2002, from the Hartford Courant: Dylan Returns To Newport

An interview with Bobby Vee reveals the amusing details behind Dylan's brief stint with Bobby Vee and the Shadows : Bobby Vee interview

It doesn't seem to be on par with other movies for which Dylan has written songs, but the new Dylan song "Waitin' for You" was written for The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Read the article at Billboard: Dylan, Hill, Gray, Krauss Get Their 'Ya-Yas' Out or listen to the sound clip at BarnesandNoble.com.

Lots of news about Penelope Cruz joining the Masked & Anonymous film project (Dylan's first starring role since Hearts of Fire). This is from Hello magazine: Penelope Cruz to collaborate with Sting and Dylan on upcoming projects

Fascinating tale of a bootlegger, ejected from the Brighton Centre show, who aims to videotape Dylan concerts for posterity. Dylan's views on bootleggers notwithstanding, in past tours, the pirates have been offered lifts on the coaches transporting Dylan's musicians and road crew.: Bringing it all back home

Not really a review, but this article is about Dylan playing Canadian cities where big-name musicians rarely tour. ("It takes a legend like Bob Dylan to show today's jerk-off asshole artists how it is really done."): Dylan Blows Into Canada With the Force of a Hurricane

Reviews of the UK shows:

From The Independent: The once and future Bob

Like many newspapers, The Telegraph is unable to resist alluding to LARS in the headline:Like a Rolling Stone, Dylan still gathers no moss

From The Guardian, which awards him four starts amidst the usual complaints of unintellible lyrics and ragged voice: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4407894,00.html Bob Dylan 4 stars

London Arena review of sorts from This Is London, musing upon Dylan's frequent touring. The article describes Dylan playing RDW # 12 & 35 "almost recognisably.": Dylan the legend keeps rolling on

London Arena review with more musing on Dylan's frequent touring. Like many articles on this topic, The Observer's writer maintains that "even he doesn't seem to know why he's doing it." This is nonsense; Dylan has said in interviews that live performances matter more to him that studio sessions, and that he enjoys touring. So he certainly does know why he's doing it: Bob just keeps on keeping on

Rolling Stone reports on Dylan's upcoming appearance at the Janus Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Weekend Festival, August 30th to September 2nd in Aspen, Colorado: Dylan, Lesh Join Colorado Fest

Other links of interest:

Get your daily Dylan updates at Expecting Rain. Oft-cited as the best Dylan site on the web, the news items are a great way to start the day.

Two excellent photo archives of magazines with Dylan on the cover from the collections of Michel Pomarede and Jeani Hoftijzer.

Several vintage articles about Dylan (mostly from the 70s) can be found at Rock's Back Pages Library Page.

A fascinating Tour Diary written by a roadie for Asleep At The Wheel, who opened for Dylan, is on the sonicnet site.

Curious about the European tours? Follow it with Dylanbase on the Road, or check out the Dylan bootleg database at the same site.

Another road diary offered up by Guster.com: check the August 1st diary for a description of the band meeting Dylan and the delicious food served up by the Dylan tour chef.

For descriptions and links to the reviews in local newspapers, see rec.music.dylan. Use the "Edit: Search Messages" function to look for specific articles. You can search rec.music.dylan at deja.com by typing in "rec.music.dylan" as the search term, then doing a subsearch when rec.music.dylan has loaded.

National Public Radio has an archive of Dylan radio program segments. These RealAudio files are about Dylan, rather than interviews with him.

For Dylan media appearances prior to June 1999, see 20 Lbs. of Headlines, a massive list of articles about Dylan. Not all of them are linked to the actual article, but there is still hours of reading to be found here.

The best source for interviews is News and Interviews at Boblinks. Magazine and newspaper articles can also be found here.

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