Bruce Springsteen

A few months ago, Bruce Springsteen and his fans were in a tizzy when the best seats for a slew of hometown shows at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, NJ, showed up on ticket brokers' sites before they were even available to the public. “Scandal! ...

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By Lucas Jensen I agree about "Cover Me", and I like the topicality of the choices here. Plus, any setlist with "Candy's Room" on it is okay in my book. But if you've gotta play "Born To Run" then I think you have to play "Thunder Road," right? Maybe take it back to the just-Bruce version of the '70s. If it were up to...

By Maura Johnston Bruce Springsteen published a journal (oh, c'mon, Bruce, just call it a blog) about his Super Bowl experience on his official Web site, and it wasn't just a "thanks to all the fans we love you!!1one" post (although there was certainly some fan appreciation within)—it was a pretty great yo...

By Maura Johnston At any rate, these artists were asked by the Superbowl to "Perform," for something they're probably support (what were the Nielsen ratings for the Superbowl? Yeah there's a good chance they're football fans) and they wanted to give a good performance. Having heard the horror stories in t...

By Maura Johnston Nothing will ever compete for sheer tone-deafness with Paul McCartney playing a zealous Super Bowl rendition of "Live and Let Die" at the height of the Iraq war. But Springsteen would have put America on its ass—its mind shortly to follow—had he strolled out with a Martin and played "The Wr...

By Mike Barthel What else would you want from Bruce Springsteen, right? Sanctifying American iconography is what he does, and what people love him for. Roads, radios, bars, Saturday night—they pass through his pen and they seem immortal. But the almost universally negative reaction it's receiving rev...

By Lucas Jensen Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Prince, The Rolling Stones, Sir Paul McCartney: After this Sunday, this list will be the answer to the question "Who were the last five Super Bowl halftime show performers?" Boomer-friendly and safe-for-TV in the wake of Nipplegate, these big five have co...

By Maura Johnston • "As the album winds down, two small gems arrive. On the elegiac 'The Last Carnival,' for late E Street member Danny Federici, and 'The Wrestler,' written for the acclaimed Mickey Rourke movie, the sparse arrangements let the emotions breathe. These two songs represent Springsteen at cl...

By Lucas Jensen I'm on some kind of Springsteen kick today, so I figured I'd keep the train rolling and talk about Jason Anderson. In a world where The Hold Steady are pretty huge and The Gaslight Anthem are up-and-comers, it seems unfair to me that the former Wolf Colonel/Mount Eerie/Yume Bitsu member is o...

By Lucas Jensen Playlist A: Glory Days, My Lucky Day, Badlands, Born to Run Playlist C: The Rising, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Working on a Dream, Hungry Heart Playlist E: Born to Run, Dancing in the Dark, Radio Nowhere, The Rising Playlist G: Glory Days, Born to Run, The Rising, Working on a Dream

By Maura Johnston The Bruce Springsteen fansite Backstreets.com is claiming that the Boss, who debuted a new song at a Barack Obama rally in Cleveland over the weekend, has been working on a new album all this time. The expected release date? "Around the time of the Presidential Inauguration in January 2009....

By Maura Johnston Judging by the search queries we've received over the past five minutes, a lot of people are curious about the song that played right after President-elect Barack Obama exited the stage after his acceptance speech at Grant Park in Chicago. Well, it was Bruce Springsteen's "The Rising," f...

By Anono-Critic KK supposes that, even in 1988, the editors of Relix, a publication founded in 1974 and made by and for Deadheads, felt like they couldn’t put the Grateful Dead on the cover every single month. So they went with a bunch of veteran San Francisco musicians who doubtless learned to depend on the...

By Maura Johnston Well, sort of. The hip-hop mogul and the rock poet laureate of New Jersey are both playing free shows this weekend to encourage voter registration, as well as volunteerism for the Democratic Presidential nominee. Springsteen will perform an acoustic set on Philadelphia's Ben Franklin P...

By Maura Johnston 5. Spend all your waking moments obsessing over what music's "October surprise" will be this year. A year ago last night, Radiohead coined the phrase "the Radiohead model" by digitally releasing In Rainbows 10 days after it was done. A few weeks later, OiNK got turned into crispy bacon by the...

By Maura Johnston Yes, the one show that a good chunk of the Tri-State area would sell its children and/or plasma to see has finally been announced: Long Island poet laureate Billy Joel and New Jersey big boss Bruce Springsteen will share a stage next month, when they play a Barack Obama benefit (with ticket...

By Maura Johnston As rumored last month, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will provide the halftime entertainment for Super Bowl XLIII next February. Just think: If the Super Bowl producers can score U2 to get in there for Super Bowl XLIV, then they'll have a six-musical-act rotation—McCartney, th...

By Maura Johnston Page Six is helpfully passing along the rumor that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will headline the Super Bowl halftime show next February, a story that was supposedly confirmed by an all-tables reservation E Streeter Steven Van Zandt made at a Tampa-area Hard Rock Cafe. While th...

By Maura Johnston E Street Band keyboardist/accordionist Danny Federici passed away Thursday after a three-year battle with melanoma. Federici, a New Jersey native, had played with Bruce Springsteen since the late 1960s. In November, the band announced that he was taking leave from its tour to receive t...

By Maura Johnston Watching the beachy video for Bruce Springsteen's "Girls In Their Summer Clothes" on an 18-degree day might not be the best idea, given that it's full of young ladies in too-sleeveless-to-wear-right-now frocks running around a Jersey Shore beach, happy to be alive and outdoors in temp...

By mjohnston 10. Rascal Flatts ($41.5 million) 11. Dave Matthews Band ($41.1 million) 12. Billy Joel ($39.1 million) 13. Roger Waters ($38.3 million) 14. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band ($38.2 million) 15. Hannah Montana / Miley Cyrus ($36 million) 16. Elton John ($35.7 million)

By jharv 01. Bruce Springsteen - Magic 02. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black 03. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible 04. Radiohead - In Rainbows 05. Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 06. M.I.A. - Kala 07. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver 08. Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full 09. Betty Lavette - The Scene Of The Crime

By Maura Johnston 17. Bruce Springsteen, Magic 16. Jay-Z, American Gangster 15. Alison Krauss & Robert Plant, Raising Sand 13. Feist, The Reminder 12. Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 7. The Dream, Lovehate 6. Radiohead, In Rainbows 5. Against Me!, New Wave 4. Kanye West, Graduation 2. Arcade Fire, Neon Bible

By Jess Harvell Rolling Stone has named the most recent comeback from the (for the time being anyway) president of Def Jam the No. 1 single of 2007. And at No. 2... Randy Newman. (We give up.) At least Lil Wayne placed ahead of the Boss. (Bet that made for some fun editorial meetings.) The full 100 is after the jump, but fi...

By Maura Johnston 23. Peter Bjorn & John, Writer's Block 18. Feist, The Reminder 17. The National, Boxer 15. Justice, † 14. Bruce Springsteen, Magic 12. Prince, Planet Earth 9. Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 8. Jay-Z, American Gangster 6. Radiohead, In Rainbows 5. M.I.A., Kala 4. Kanye West, Graduation 2. Arcade Fire, Neon Bible

By mjohnston 3 The Hold Steady, Boys and Girls in America 4 MIA, Kala 7 Grinderman 8 Battles, Mirrored 9 PJ Harvey, White Chalk 10 Feist, The Reminder 12 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss 14 Arcade Fire, Neon Bible 15 Les Savy Fav, Let's Stay Friends 17 Britney Spears, Blackout 18 Bruce Springsteen, Magic

By Maura Johnston Nominations for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance go to: Our Country" -- John Mellencamp Radio Nowhere" -- Bruce Springsteen Revival -- John Fogerty Magic -- Bruce Springsteen Nods for Best Rock Song go to: Radio Nowhere" -- Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen)

By Jess Harvell Brit rock mag Q gives countrymen Radiohead the gas face (by daring to stick them at No. 4!), choosing 2007's first universe-altering rock release, the Arcade Fire's Neon Bible, as the best album of the year. Their picks for more or less every middle-of-the-road rock album released in 2007t...

By Anono-Critic Yet there Bruce Springsteen is, smiling gamely for Ben Watts' lens while his covermate Win Butler merely offers the dead-eyed gaze common to his suspicious-of-the-mass-media ilk. Has it possibly occurred to Van Zandt that it is not for him to decide what constitutes "fun" for those seve...

By mjohnston It's not just Springsteen. There is no sign at major radio stations of new albums by John Fogerty or Annie Lennox, either. The same stations that should be playing Santana's new singles with Chad Kroeger or Tina Turner are avoiding them, too.

By Maura Johnston 1. Bruce Springsteen, Magic (77,000) 2. Kid Rock, Rock N' Roll Jesus (77,000) 4. Josh Groban, Noel (64,000) 9. Kanye West, Graduation (54,000) 10. Colbie Caillat, Coco (50,000) 15. Jill Scott, The Real Thing: Words And Sounds Vol. 3 (38,000) 19. Sara Evans, Greatest Hits (31,000)

By Maura Johnston Kid Rock's Rock N' Roll Jesus sold 172,000 copies last week, and that total was enough for the oh-so-classy guy to wrest the top spot from Bruce Springsteen, whose Magic suffered a 60% sales decline and sank to No. 2. Jesus is Kid Rock's first career No. 1, and its success probably ensures that h...

By Maura Johnston Bruce Springsteen's Magic sold 335,000 copies last week, a total that put the New Jersey singer at No. 1 on the just-released SoundScan charts. The album is Springsteen's eighth career chart-topper, although the first-week total is substantially less than the 525,000 mark set by The Ris...

By mjohnston • "Artists like Bruce Springsteen face weighty expectations from fans and critics. Every album must either be a stunning return to form or a groundbreaking departure to pass muster. But sometimes a good record is just a good record, not life-changing or seminal. Springsteen and his longti...

By jharv Blaine Schwingenschlegel, custom marketing manager for Sony BMG Canada, says the idea for the promotion came from Kadaner, a massive Springsteen fan. "Humphrey is so adamant about the quality of this record that not only will he offer a full refund, but he will also send a personal apolog...

By mjohnston Bruce Springsteen's Magic has an official release date of Oct. 2, but the vinyl version of the album is now in stores, which one can either see as a tribute to the format (a la Pearl Jam's week-early vinyl release of Vs. back in the day) or a sneaky way for the album to get Grammy consideration (be...

By Chris Molanphy Robert Christgau, the Dean of Rock Criticism, has made a career out of pithiness--in an era when Rolling Stone still published 1,000-word record reviews, "Xgau" would summarize an album in about 100 koan-like words. But the last sentence of his 1980 review of Prince's third album, Dirty...

By mjohnston The first Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band album in five years, due Oct. 2, will be produced by Brendan O'Brien, whose credits also include albums by Jackyl, Limp Bizkit, and Papa Roach. (OK, OK, he also produced Vs., some Matthew Sweet albums, and Bruce's 2005 album Devils and Dust. But...

By mjohnston Here's some shaky footage of the finale of last night's Bruce Springsteen tribute concert at Carnegie Hall, which featured Bruce, The Hold Steady's Craig Finn, and others pitching in on a huge "Rosalita" sing-along. While we can't speak for the clip's quality, we would like to point out t...

By Brian Raftery The best part of the story is a mention that Springsteen and Robert De Niro have been hanging out together, the very possibility of which must be every hacky impressionist comedian's wet dream. MP3: Bruce Springsteen, "It's Hard To Be A Saint In The City" [Link via The Smudge of Ashen Fluff]