Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo sat down this week with WFNX’s Ryan Stewart to talk about the band’s recent split with Geffen Records, his favorite Sonic Youth album of the aughts (The Eternal), and his picks for the top three albums of the decade.

Ensuring that his list spans the entire ten years, Ranaldo chose, as he says, “[o]ne from early, one from the middle, and one from recently.” Here are his top three:

As with most Bob Dylan interviews, you could spin any minor exchange into an essay, sensationalized headline, or treatise on the socio-political transformation of the modern state, but screw all that because now Bob’s here to talk about Christmas, he claims to be “a true believer,” and I’ll never pass up a chance to hear the reigning poet laureate of rock respond to critics.

In an interview (via SNS) with the man behind the Together Through Life pre-release hype interviews, Bill Flanagan, Dylan spoke about the genuine motivations behind his new holiday LP Christmas in the Heart, how he doesn’t really listen to rap music, and what he thinks of a few critics’ takes on his first foray into Christmas music.

You may have missed Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour: Halloween episode, which originally aired three years ago, but Sirius XM are planning to rebroadcast the show early next week and there are plenty of deets on the Internet for us to enjoy in the meantime.

Here’s Bob Dylan’s Halloween playlist (via Not Dark Yet) with links to stream every song, save for two that are not online:

Only a few weeks after Bob Dylan announced the release of his holiday album, Christmas in the Heart, former American Idol runner-up David Archuleta announced the upcoming release of his Christmas record, coincidentally (or was it?) titled Christmas From the Heart. What’s more, the two records were both due out on the same day (Oct. 18).

Surely you know of guitarist, drummer, singer Jack White and perhaps you’ve heard of actor, upholsterer, philanthropist, or Luddite Jack White, but we’ve got a new one for you today: lecturer Jack White.

“I don’t know if Bob Dylan or Tom Waits are as authentic as I think they are. Perhaps they’re not,” White told Dublin’s Trinity College last night, according to NME, where he spoke and received an honory patron medal from the University Philosophical Society. “Sometimes you start thinking that maybe Britney Spears or someone like that who’s doing exactly what they want to do in the way that they best know how, is more authentic than any of those people you could mention.”

Okay, I take back any unintentional snark in our “Listen: Bob Dylan Christmas Album Samples” post, as the epic possibilities of the first music video from his upcoming charitable holiday record have made it all worth the trip. According to Dylan fansite RightWingBob, Dylan’s cover of “Must Be Santa” is getting the music video treatment, and Dylan himself will be making an appearance. Dare I ask, dressed as Santa?

Probably not, but the site does tease that the vid “will likely contain a fight scene,” so it’s sure to be entertaining, if not batsh*t crazy.

We’ll post it here as soon as it hits the Web, but in the meantime, here are a few other unusual Dylan cameos:

Dharma, of Dharma & Greg, jams with the poet laureate of rock: Part 1Part 2 and

A Cadillac Escalade, the desert, and Bob Dylan make for quite the TV commercial.

Dylan must’ve only agreed to let Victoria’s Secret use “Love Sick” if they let him leer at their lingerie models.

For only a brief time yesterday, Bob Dylan’s upcoming album Christmas in the Heart popped up on Amazon with 30-second streaming audio samples. And let’s just say, even die-hard fans weren’t too happy. “Utterly embarrassing. Please God no, make it stop,” wrote one commenter on Dylan fan-site Expecting Rain. “I like it… I’m problably a masochist,” wrote another.

Well, I’m not going to review an album I’ve only heard 30-second samples from, but if you want to get a taste of Dylan’s take on Christmas classics, listen here or embedded below.

The good news is, however, he’s probably just messing with us.

Bob Dylan’s rumored holiday LP has turned out to be true, as Rolling Stone reports that Christmas in the Heart, a collection which includes classic songs “Must Be Santa,” “Little Drummer Boy,” “Winter Wonderland,” “Here Comes Santa Claus,” and more will be released by Dylan on October 13^th. Check out the album’s official cover to the left.

In case you were wondering if Dylan was attempting a holiday album cash grab, the U.S. royalties for Christmas in the Heart will be donated to domestic hunger charity Feeding America and non-domestic royalties will benefit hunger charities from other parts of the world.

Normally, a Dylan Christmas album would sound a bit strange to me, but yesterday’s story about him narrating car GPS systems pretty much threw all those expectations out the window.

Okay, this is even stranger than a cameo on Dharma and Greg, though maybe not as weird as being picked up by New Jersey cops: Bob Dylan is in talks with various car companies to be the voice of their GPS navigational systems. You know those somewhat robotic, occasionally creepy, people that tell you to “take the next left turn” or “do a u-turn if possible?” Imagine Bob freakin’ Dylan saying that. Here’s what Dylan told listeners of his Theme Time Radio Hour show (via Telegraph):

I am talking to a couple of car companies about being the voice of their GPS system. I think it would be good if you are looking for directions and hear my voice saying something like: “Left at the next street, no a right - you know what? Just go straight.” I probably shouldn’t do it because whichever way I go I always end up at one place: Lonely Avenue.

I’m thinking this idea might be a road hazard, but bring it on! To have Dylan interrupt his own music while I’m driving should be a bit more distracting, but a lot less annoying.