Bruce Springsteen

By The Stu Reid Experiment I can’t say I’ve never liked him. There was a time when I would have listed Born to Run near the top of my list of all-time favorite albums. I was nearing my high school graduation, the weather was getting warmer, and I fell under the spell of Bruce’s odes to summer evenings spent with barefoot gi...

By The World Forgot On this night the cover was three dollars, the beers were a dollar and a half each, and the music was more than worth the long trek back and forth on the frozen evening. Deer Tick lived up to their billing as they played through a set of a southern infused rock with a cover of Bruce Springsteen, an...

By Cover Me When Springsteen abruptly began closing his 2005 solo concerts with this obscure cover, fan reaction was understandably mixed. The song only has two lines, repeated over an over to an organ loop for as long as thirteen minutes. Hypnotic and haunting, Bruce probably just couldn’t get the m...

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By Music News Net MUSIC NEWS - The head of Ticketmaster, Irving Azoff, took time off from the heavilly rumored Live Nation / Ticketmaster merger negotiations and responded to the outcry over the problems of their sale of BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN tour tickets.  Not only did Ticketmaster upset comsumers an...

By tmogger Bruce Springsteen February 03, 2009 12:00 AM ET Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Phish, the Beastie Boys, Nine Inch Nails, David Byrne, Wilco, Al Green, Snoop Dogg and Elvis Costello lead the lineup for the 2009 Bonnaroo festival, to be held June 11-14 in Manchester, Tenn.

By It's Hard to Find A Friend Our favorite Chicago singer, songwriter, beat-maker, and general teddy bear, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone , has announced himself a new collection of songs for us to purchase on compact disc. The album will be available on March 10th, (my birthday! Send Amazon gift cards.) and is a co...

By Pop Tarts Suck Toasted I read a line on some blog (my apologies I don't recall which one at the moment) that stated something to the fact that Bruce Springsteen is the over-30 equivalent of Animal Collective. Basically they were trying to say that Bruce is everywhere these days, from rocking for Barack to headlin...

By Pop Tarts Suck Toasted Who: Bruce Springsteen More Dates Listen: Bruce Springsteen - "The Wrestler" More Dates Who: Neko Case When: April 13th 14th More Dates Thoughts: Still prefer Neko over AC! I'm just saying Dave.... More Dates More Dates When: April 30th May 2nd More Dates Who: Superdrag When: April 9th 10th

By Vintage Vinyl News It's been over twenty years since Bruce Springsteen has been part of a press conference, but that streak ended Thursday as he participated in Super Bowl Media Day. Springsteen and the E-Street Band took questions from a standing room only crowd, talking about his career, current activit...

By tonemarrowreviews One thing is for sure, the new, happy Springsteen is nowhere near as fun as the angry, fiery Springsteen that has been a prophet of rock’n'roll for more than three decades. The Boss’ ’70s work was a Van Morrison-inspired blend of rock, R&B, and a little funk in which he sang what were basi...

By herohill You see, back then not every punk band was adding Billy Bragg influenced, Springsteen/Mellencamp fused acoustic tracks to their discs so the stripped down, working class America vibe the song gave off fueled many drunken sing alongs in our old house. At the time, I doubt I would have said I...

By Pop Tarts Suck Toasted Jan. 27th: Andrew Bird Noble Beast Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Working On A Dream Loney, Dear Dear John February: Feb. 17th: Abe Vigoda Reviver Asobi Seksu Hush Beirut March of the Zapotec EP M. Ward Hold Time Malajube TBA Telepathe Dance Mother Vetiver Tight Knit

By engelcox I don't really care that much for Bruce Springsteen's music when Bruce is singing it. He's one of those cases where I find him an interesting song writer but there's something about his voice or delivery that just doesn't appeal to me (my other heretical view on this subject is that it goes ev...

By Charley Rogulewski Son of a bitch! Bruce Springsteen beat me to a Golden Globe nomination. Actually the Boss man had me beat already in '94 when he nabbed a shiny statue for "Streets of Philidelphia." He's up to bat again in this year's Best Original Song catagory. Cyrus has got this one in the bag. Sorry Bruce.

By Rock Town Hall Among the album's other inspired hairy-chested collaborators are Neil Young, whose jagged guitar runs embroider the title cut; Bob Dylan, whose howling harmonica is the ideal punctuation for the Springsteen-gone-psychotic "The Factory"; and George Clinton, who adds a bed of menac...

By A Deeper Shade Of Soul Back in the early 80’s, Bruce Springsteen began recording solo demos of his songs before trying them with the E Street Band. The reasoning? Well, besides it being too time consuming in the studio the way they were writing, recording and the deciding on which songs to use, Bruce saw a potenti...

By Indiana they're from New Jersey (natch) and they have struck chords of urgency and passion inside of me something fierce. Lead singer Brian Fallon grew up in a home four blocks from E Street (yes, that one) and their music pays a nod to urgent elements of Springsteen, the Hold Steady and Lucero. Bring...

By Terry Staunton of MOG There was a period, stretching over the best part of two decades, where Roy was in the wilderness, condemned to poorly-staged nostalgia shows and low-rent supper clubs, but the essence of his music could still be heard in Bruce Springsteen (Born To Run), Elvis Costello (Alison) or Tom Wa...

By tmogger of MOG With Election Day technically underway with early voting going down in 25 states, musicians continue to throw some last-minute support to Barack Obama. In the battleground of Ohio,Bruce Springsteen appeared with Obama at a rally, saying "I don’t know about you, but I want my country b...

By LaserBurn He moved from there to the Ghost of Tom Joad, with its haunting images of John Steinbeck’s Depression-era dust bowl. And the place roared. When the cheering subsided, he eased straight into Thunder Road. So now is the time to stand with Barack Obama and Joe Biden, roll up our sleeves, and come o...

By ¡Viva La Mainstream! Bruce Springsteen on the Ben Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA 10/04/08 The Promised Land The Ghost of Tom Joad Thunder Road No Surrender Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) The Rising Yes We Can" Improv/This Land Is Your Land/"Yes We Can"

By linda jacqueline I’m not saying all other band in town suck…they’re just irrelevant. This song they claim is a cover version of Bruce Springsteen "Fire", haven’t heard the original, but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t share any resemblence at all, except for the lyrics…

By Anyone's Guess You compare us to a lot of really great bands (Arcade Fire, the National, Bright Eyes, Bruce Springsteen) and even if your intention was to cut us down, you end up describing us as: "lyrically moody, musically sumptuous and dramatic." One is left only to conclude that you m ust think those th...

By MusicDish Peter Bloom] I wrote and recorded a record over the last two years. Producer/keyboardist John Jamieson and I arranged it. John plays piano and sings backup for the live shows. Guitarist Justin Abedin, who laid down all the guitars and bass tracks for the CD, is my lead guitarist live. My buddy D...

By The MOG-GAZETTE Craig Finn talks about meeting Bruce Springsteen and The Clash’s Joe Strummer. Plus the music that changed his life: Husker Du, The Clash, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and more. Plus: http://mog.com/Michael_Goldberg/blog/180550 Gnarls Barkley: Hail, Hail, Rock ‘n’ Roll!

By emscee A few days ago, I heard "Loose Ends" on my iPod. It's one of those Bruce songs that almost got away, an outtake that finally emerged on "Tracks," and it's a real favorite of mine, a song that smacks musically of "The River" (from whence it almost came) and lyrically looks ahead to the tortured l...

By Sturgell Morello joined Bruce Springsteen onstage on both April 7 and April 8 for an electric version of the Boss's The Ghost of Tom Joad (RATM recorded their own version of "The Ghost of Tom Joad" for its 2000 covers album, Renegades.)  The Ghost Of Tom Joad" 

By emscee So I get back from Nashville and look at "Backstreets" to check in on Springsteen news, and it turns out that this is what was played at the 5/7 show. Set one: all of the "Darkness On The Edge Of Town" album. Set two: all of the "Born To Run" album. I won't even discuss the encore. OK, just shoot me, lik...

By Masoo When Danny Federici recorded solo albums, he took a smooth jazz approach that sounded nothing like his E Street Band work. I mention all of this mainly to note that Danny, like everyone else in the band, had skills that went unused when he supported Bruce. And with his passing, it is worth ment...

By Mike the Knife By now, most who care must have noted the news that Danny Federici, longtime keyboardist for Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, has passed away. If you ever heard his tender, wistful accordion on Springsteen's “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy),” he surely touched you. That was just...

By Lester Jonze NEW YORK (AP) -- Danny Federici, the longtime keyboard player for Bruce Springsteen whose stylish work helped define the E Street Band's sound on hits from "Hungry Heart" through "The Rising," died Thursday. He was 58. It was Federici, along with original E Street Band drummer Vini Lopez,...

By MrFrost of MOG “Senator Obama, in my view, is head and shoulders above the rest. He has the depth, the reflectiveness, and the resilience to be our next President. He speaks to the America I’ve envisioned in my music for the past 35 years, a generous nation with a citizenry willing to tackle nuanced and comp...