Bruce Springsteen

By Josh Hathaway Bruce Springsteen, man of the people. In what should be a surprise to no one, fan demand to see Bruce Springsteen’s final run with his E Street Band at Giants Stadium in his home state of New Jersey was so intense that two additional shows have been added to what was already a three-night run. Th...

By Josh Hathaway The Lengths | The Black Keys | Rubber Factory | 36Cedars Of Lebanon | U2 | No Line On The Horizon | 34Cherries | Benson, Brendan | One Mississippi/Wellfed EP | 28Cemeteries Of London | Coldplay | Viva La Vida | 27A Grainy Taste | Tuatara | The Here And The Gone | 25Life In Technicolor II | Co...

By Josh Hathaway 2. Darkness On The Edge Of Town 3. Outlaw Pete 4. Out In The Street 5. Working On A Dream 6. Seeds 7. Johnny 99 8. The Ghost Of Tom Joad (With Tom Morello) 9. I’m Goin’ Down 10. Raise Your Hand 13. The Promised Land 14. The Wrestler 16. Kingdom Of Days 17. Lonesome Day 18. The Rising 19. Born To Run

By Josh Hathaway To all of you fair Springsteen fans and readers, I urge you to dust off your list.  The rules are simple.  Jot down 20 Bruce Springsteen songs you’ve never heard in concert before and sequence them such that #1 is the song you most want to hear.  We’ll compare notes.  We’ll update the list after At...

By Josh Hathaway The Ghost of Tom Joad Working on the Highway Cadillac Ranch Waitin’ on a Sunny Day The Promised Land The Wrestler Kingdom of Days Radio Nowhere Lonesome Day The Rising Born to Run Hard Times Tenth Avenue Freeze-out Rosalita Land of Hope and Dreams American Land Dancing in the Dark

By Josh Hathaway There is no logic to this set.  As I said yesterday, I love “Youngstown” but when you’ve dusted off a full-band version of “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” how do you not play it in Tulsa, Oklahoma?  Play ‘em both!  You’ve obviously got time.  How does “My Lucky Day” get dumped but “Waitin’ On A Sunny Day...

By Josh Hathaway The title track was made available free from iTunes, followed by “My Lucky Day” through Amazon.  “Life Itself” is the third track to be made available in advance of the new record which will be released January 27.  The album is being released as a standard CD as well as a CD/DVD deluxe edition....

By Josh Hathaway I was getting a little surly when it looked like there would be nothing from Bruce Springsteen under my Christmas tree this year. There were rumors of a 30th anniversary re-issue of Darkness On The Edge of Town and a live CD/DVD of the Magic world tour. As weeks went by, these seemed less and les...

By Josh Hathaway Once again teamed with his E Street Band, Working on a Dream is a 12-song set once again produced by Brendan O’Brien, who has produced previous Springsteen records The Rising, Devils & Dust, and Magic.  According to Springsteen, the seeds of the record were mostly sewn during the Magi...

By Josh Hathaway According to the NME, Bruce Springsteen has written the title track for an upcoming film called The Wrestler. Describing the piece on his blog, the film’s director Darren Aronofsky said: “Bruce Springsteen wrote a beautiful original song for the closing the film. “Called ‘The Wrestler,...

By Josh Hathaway You know things have gone seriously off the tracks when you have to ask for songs from the current album, but that’s where we sit at this point in the Magic World Tour.  For reasons that surpass all understanding, Bruce has swapped his tour bus for a DeLorean and taken us back to fucking [...]