In "Boy from the North Country," Sam Sussman fashions a mother-son love story with a side helping of Bob Dylan. My review for @jdforward #BobDylan
Sam Sussman fashions a mother-son love story with a side helping of Bob Dylan
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In "Boy from the North Country," Sam Sussman fashions a mother-son love story with a side helping of Bob Dylan. My review for @jdforward #BobDylan
What the hell is wrong with Lindor this season as a fielder?
August 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
What the hell is wrong with Lindor this season as a fielder?
Jonathan Gould and I will be reading from our new books (his, the excellent new Talking Heads bio, "Burning Down the House"; mine, "Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison"), discussing them, and signing copies at Kinderhook Books in Kinderhook, N.Y., on Saturday, August 2, at 1pm.
Seth Rogovoy and Jonathan Gould in Conversation at Kinderhook Books — Seth Rogovoy
Seth Rogovoy , author of Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison , and Jonathan Gould , author of Burning Down The House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed ...
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July 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Jonathan Gould and I will be reading from our new books (his, the excellent new Talking Heads bio, "Burning Down the House"; mine, "Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison"), discussing them, and signing copies at Kinderhook Books in Kinderhook, N.Y., on Saturday, August 2, at 1pm.
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BOTD Robbie Robertson!!!
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@anniezaleski.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/music/2023/a...
w/Scorsese, via @benlindbergh.bsky.social: www.theringer.com/2019/11/27/m...
@cwillman.bsky.social on OWB doc: variety.com/2019/film/re...
@rogovoy.bsky.social: sethrogovoy.substack.com/p/on-robbie-...
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w/Scorsese, via @benlindbergh.bsky.social: www.theringer.com/2019/11/27/m...
@cwillman.bsky.social on OWB doc: variety.com/2019/film/re...
@rogovoy.bsky.social: sethrogovoy.substack.com/p/on-robbie-...
On Robbie Robertson and the Legacy of The Band
Robbie Robertson, 1943-2023
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July 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
BOTD Robbie Robertson!!!
More:
@anniezaleski.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/music/2023/a...
w/Scorsese, via @benlindbergh.bsky.social: www.theringer.com/2019/11/27/m...
@cwillman.bsky.social on OWB doc: variety.com/2019/film/re...
@rogovoy.bsky.social: sethrogovoy.substack.com/p/on-robbie-...
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@anniezaleski.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/music/2023/a...
w/Scorsese, via @benlindbergh.bsky.social: www.theringer.com/2019/11/27/m...
@cwillman.bsky.social on OWB doc: variety.com/2019/film/re...
@rogovoy.bsky.social: sethrogovoy.substack.com/p/on-robbie-...
Hard to believe that Yidstock begins in less than two weeks! This year's festival includes The Klezmatics, Eleanor Reissa, Joanne Borts, Michael Winograd, Hankus Netsky, R. Deborah Sacks Mintz, Yoshie Fruchter, Jake Shulman-Ment, Abigale Reisman, Sarah Gordon, and so many other greats.
Klezmatics, Eleanor Reissa, Joanne Borts, and Michael Winograd Headline Yidstock 2025 | The Rogovoy Report
(AMHERST, Mass.) – The Klezmatics, Eleanor Reissa, Joanne Borts, and Michael Winograd are among the internationally acclaimed performers taking the stage at Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music...
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June 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Hard to believe that Yidstock begins in less than two weeks! This year's festival includes The Klezmatics, Eleanor Reissa, Joanne Borts, Michael Winograd, Hankus Netsky, R. Deborah Sacks Mintz, Yoshie Fruchter, Jake Shulman-Ment, Abigale Reisman, Sarah Gordon, and so many other greats.
Turns out Bob Dylan and Barbra Streisand make beautiful music together. My review of their new duet for @jdforward
Barbra Streisand's brand-new duet with Bob Dylan is a whole lot different than you might think
Though Dylan and Streisand's voices may seem ill-suited to each other, the two complement each other gorgeously on 'The Very Thought of You.'
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June 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Turns out Bob Dylan and Barbra Streisand make beautiful music together. My review of their new duet for @jdforward
Paying tribute to the late Brian Wilson with my appreciation of the genius behind "Pet Sounds" #BrianWilson #BeachBoys #PetSounds
Revisiting the Sad Genius of Brian Wilson
'Pet Sounds’ was a symphonic rock rendering of a nervous breakdown
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June 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Paying tribute to the late Brian Wilson with my appreciation of the genius behind "Pet Sounds" #BrianWilson #BeachBoys #PetSounds
I explore why Bruce Springsteen's tirade against Trump is best understood in the biblical prophetic context as outlined by Abraham Joshua Heschel in my latest for @jdforward #Springsteen #BruceSpringsteen #TheBoss #Heschel
Why Bruce Springsteen should stop listening to Trump and start listening to Rabbi Heschel
Calling Trump 'incompetent' and 'treasonous,' Springsteen with a clarity Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel would have recognized.
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May 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I explore why Bruce Springsteen's tirade against Trump is best understood in the biblical prophetic context as outlined by Abraham Joshua Heschel in my latest for @jdforward #Springsteen #BruceSpringsteen #TheBoss #Heschel
I write about the enduring resonance of plays by Sam Shepard, David Mamet, and Eric Bogosian in my latest "Everything Is Broken" Substack column
Mamet, Shepard, Bogosian
A month of play-going in New York City affirms the enduring power of this trio of late-20th century American playwrights
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May 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I write about the enduring resonance of plays by Sam Shepard, David Mamet, and Eric Bogosian in my latest "Everything Is Broken" Substack column
What do "Let It Be," "Bridge Over Troubled Water," the Jackson 5's "ABC" and “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" have in common? They all were in the Top 10 fifty-five years ago this week. Read all about it in my latest Substack, "Top 10: April 11, 1970" sethrogovoy.substack.com/p/top-10-apr...
Top 10: April 11, 1970
At the turn of the decade, just as they were breaking up, the Beatles still ruled the pop charts, with the Jackson 5, Badfinger, and Simon & Garfunkel filling out a mostly stellar week in music.
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April 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
What do "Let It Be," "Bridge Over Troubled Water," the Jackson 5's "ABC" and “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" have in common? They all were in the Top 10 fifty-five years ago this week. Read all about it in my latest Substack, "Top 10: April 11, 1970" sethrogovoy.substack.com/p/top-10-apr...
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I've been immersed in the '74 #Dylan tour and noting the same as @rogovoy.bsky.social explores in this spot-on look at “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” as an anthem of our new dark days: “even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.” forward.com/culture/musi...
In 1964, when he was just 23, Bob Dylan wrote the prophetic anthem that encapsulates Trump's America
Decrying a world characterized by materialism, violence and blind conformity, Dylan echoed the warnings of King Solomon.
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March 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I've been immersed in the '74 #Dylan tour and noting the same as @rogovoy.bsky.social explores in this spot-on look at “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” as an anthem of our new dark days: “even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.” forward.com/culture/musi...
Bob Dylan's 61-year-old song "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" could well be the anthem for our time. I explain in my latest for The Forward #bobdylan forward.com/culture/musi...
In 1964, when he was just 23, Bob Dylan wrote the prophetic anthem that encapsulates Trump's America
Decrying a world characterized by materialism, violence and blind conformity, Dylan echoed the warnings of King Solomon.
forward.com
March 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Bob Dylan's 61-year-old song "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" could well be the anthem for our time. I explain in my latest for The Forward #bobdylan forward.com/culture/musi...
Weekend highlights in Berkshires and Hudson Valley include Michelle Dorrance and Ephrat Asherie at MASS MoCA; Owls string quartet in Albany; Bach’s organ works in Housatonic, Mass.; and yours truly reading from and signing copies of my new George Harrison book in Chatham, N.Y., on Sun Feb 9 at 1pm
The Rogovoy Report: Berkshire & Hudson Valley Cultural Preview
Feb 7-9, 2025
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February 6, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Weekend highlights in Berkshires and Hudson Valley include Michelle Dorrance and Ephrat Asherie at MASS MoCA; Owls string quartet in Albany; Bach’s organ works in Housatonic, Mass.; and yours truly reading from and signing copies of my new George Harrison book in Chatham, N.Y., on Sun Feb 9 at 1pm
In my latest Everything Is Broken Substack column, I discuss how to remain responsibly informed without allowing the "news" emanating from the White House to drive you to derangement. #news #survivingTrump
A News Junkie’s Survival Guide to the Trump Era
How to remain responsibly informed without becoming deranged
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January 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM
In my latest Everything Is Broken Substack column, I discuss how to remain responsibly informed without allowing the "news" emanating from the White House to drive you to derangement. #news #survivingTrump
I take another listen to Bob Dylan's 'Blood on the Tracks' on its 50th anniversary for the Forward forward.com/culture/musi... #BobDylan #Dylan #BloodOnTheTracks
50 years later, Bob Dylan's 'Blood on the Tracks' remains the standard by which all albums are measured
50 years ago, in 1975, Bob Dylan's classic album 'Blood on the Tracks' introduced a whole new approach to songwriting.
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January 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I take another listen to Bob Dylan's 'Blood on the Tracks' on its 50th anniversary for the Forward forward.com/culture/musi... #BobDylan #Dylan #BloodOnTheTracks
In which I write about this 10-year-old Richard Gere film; the 13-year-old German gem ‘A Coffee in Berlin’; last year’s ‘Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat,’’ and the remarkable new Booker Prize-shortlisted debut novel ‘The Safekeep’ by Yael van der Wouden
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In the Afternoon the Hope of the Morning Is Buried
Reviews of Time Out of Mind (film), A Coffee in Berlin, Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat, and the debut novel The Safekeep
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January 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
In which I write about this 10-year-old Richard Gere film; the 13-year-old German gem ‘A Coffee in Berlin’; last year’s ‘Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat,’’ and the remarkable new Booker Prize-shortlisted debut novel ‘The Safekeep’ by Yael van der Wouden
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"... in the afternoon the hope of the morning is buried." - Franz Kafka, Diaries
January 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"... in the afternoon the hope of the morning is buried." - Franz Kafka, Diaries
My review of Stephen Johnson and Vanessa Falabella's new album, "Nu~Bossa Elixir~s", for Chronogram.
Album Review: Nu~Bossa Elixir~s | Stephen Johnson and Vanessa Falabella
A review of Nu~Bossa Elixir~s, an album by Kingston’s Stephen Johnson and Vanessa Falabella, blending traditional bossa nova with contemporary sounds and global influences, exploring political and soc...
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January 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
My review of Stephen Johnson and Vanessa Falabella's new album, "Nu~Bossa Elixir~s", for Chronogram.
The question that never gets answered in "A Complete Unknown" -- the new Bob Dylan "biopic" starring Timothee Chalamet -- is "why?" Read more in my review of "A Complete Unknown" in The Forward.
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The crucial Bob Dylan question that 'A Complete Unknown' fails to answer
Sorry to say, the Timothée Chalamet-led Dylan film directed by James Mangold is the ballad of a thin biopic.
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December 25, 2024 at 9:33 PM
The question that never gets answered in "A Complete Unknown" -- the new Bob Dylan "biopic" starring Timothee Chalamet -- is "why?" Read more in my review of "A Complete Unknown" in The Forward.
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Classic Rock Magazine calls my new book, "Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison" (Oxford Univ. Press), "...meticulously researched, including two curious chapters on Harrison's links with Ronnie Spector and Peggy Lee."
December 13, 2024 at 11:36 PM
Classic Rock Magazine calls my new book, "Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison" (Oxford Univ. Press), "...meticulously researched, including two curious chapters on Harrison's links with Ronnie Spector and Peggy Lee."
Ralph Gardner Jr.'s take on "Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison" and its author #GeorgeHarrison #Beatles
Was George the equal of John and Paul?
A new book about the Beatles' guitarist argues that he was
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December 9, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Ralph Gardner Jr.'s take on "Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison" and its author #GeorgeHarrison #Beatles
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the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
December 3, 2024 at 1:41 PM
the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
Who remembers Zipper Wax?
November 29, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Who remembers Zipper Wax?
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Martin Scorsese’s Beatles ’64: how the band helped to heal America. A new documentary shows previously unseen footage of the British band’s first tour of the US — and the hysteria it provoked
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Martin Scorsese’s Beatles ’64: how the band helped to heal America
A new documentary shows previously unseen footage of the British band’s first tour of the US — and the hysteria it provoked
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November 23, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Martin Scorsese’s Beatles ’64: how the band helped to heal America. A new documentary shows previously unseen footage of the British band’s first tour of the US — and the hysteria it provoked
www.thetimes.com/culture/musi.... 🍏
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today was a good day @rogovoy.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 7:14 AM
today was a good day @rogovoy.bsky.social