Bob Dylan's new single, "Murder Most Foul," is 17 minutes long and references more than 70 songs. We made a playlist of them all. Fred Tanneau/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Bob Dylan, seen here in 2015, surprised his fans with a new song called "Murder Most Foul." Frazer Harrison/Getty Images hide caption
Guru and DJ Premier of the hip-hop group Gang Starr, pictured together in 1991. The duo's first new album in 16 years is One of the Best Yet. Gie Knaeps/Getty Images hide caption
Bob Dylan, photographed in his Rolling Thunder Revue face paint. Netflix hide caption
Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue featured an ad-hoc accidental masterpiece of a band, which played rousing, irreverent versions of songs from his catalog. Ken Regan/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
A photo of the Ribaudo family tomb in the Staglieno Cimitero Monumentale in Genoa, Italy was used as the cover art for Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart." Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Izzy Young in Sept. 2007. Frank Beacham/Courtesy of Frank Beacham hide caption
In 2018, Prince's estate released a recording from the artist's fabled vault called Piano & A Microphone 1983. Allen Beaulieu/The Prince Estate hide caption
Spanish singer Roslaía's El Mal Querer is on our short list of the best albums out on Nov. 2. John Parra/WireImage hide caption
Bob Dylan with a mandolin during the Blood On the Tracks sessions. Ken Regan/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Cher's 3614 Jackson Highway album cover, featuring the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, a.k.a. The Swampers. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Jennifer Hudson performs during the the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C. on March 24, 2018. Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Bob Dylan, pictured in 1974, while working on what would become Blood on the Tracks. Barry Feinstein hide caption
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Bettye LaVette's Things Have Changed is out now on Verve Records. Mark Seliger/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Lord Huron's Vide Noir comes out April 20 via Whispering Pines/Republic Records. Pamela Littky/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Bob Dylan's Trouble No More is out Nov. 3. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Bob Dylan, recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Bob Marley, with his guitar in the yard at Tuff Gong (his home and headquarters). Kingston, Jamaica, March 1976. David Burnett/Contact Press Images hide caption
Bob Dylan, who announced he would accept in person the Nobel Prize for Literature, was silent after it was announced he would receive the prize. Boris Horvat/AFP/Getty Images hide caption