Asbury Park rocker Jake Thistle made it to 'American Idol's' Top 20, earning praise from Carrie Underwood.

Instead, though, I Googled Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’.” It seemed like a very Northland thing to do. Dylan’s music takes me to another imperfect, but simpler, time. I’ll just get lost ...

From Bruce Springsteen biopics to "Dylan Goes Electric," the Albany Film Festival explores the intersection of writing and film. View the March 28 schedule.

This year, two arena-filling artists returned to the older civic function of song. Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” and U2’s elegiac “American Obituary,” written in response to immigration ...