Weekend reading: The Beatles, Quentin Tarantino, Bob Dylan and more

The Beatles are a bit more like cicadas: Every few years, they come crawling out of some deep dark hole, and their sound is unavoidable.

OK, OK, so maybe that’s overstating things. After all, the Beatles don’t ever really go away.

The group has a way of breathing life into its catalogue for a new generation every few years, however.

There was the group’s 1995 resurgence with “The Beatles Anthology,” the 2000 release of the compilation “1,” and now, the Sept. 9 release of its remastered albums and “The Beatles: Rock Band,” a meticulously crafted video game.

Read about the release of the game and more below.

The Beatles are now a super-famous video game too. (New York Times Magazine)

Quentin Tarantino: Is he mentally ill? Does he have great taste in music? Yes and yes. (Rolling Stone)

Bob Dylan’s a total bum. (ABC News)

Les Paul died last week. (The Guardian)

Pete Yorn texted Scarlett Johansson and was all like, “Want 2 rcrd 2gether?” And she was all like, “Yes!!!!! ; ) ;” Or something. (New York)

Critics enjoy this Leonard Cohen character. (Robert Christgau for Barnes and Noble Review, New Yorker)