Back in 2020, shortly after the release of Bruce Springsteen’s album Letter to You, I offered an interpretation of the song “House of 1000 Guitars.” It was a fairly popular post and I got some nice feedback from Springsteen fans....
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A nice Springsteen cover from the Man in Black:...
Springsteen: The E Street Band will return “pretty soon”
Great news for Springsteen fans. Here is Eric Hillis at Nova: Bruce Springsteen has told fans they will see the return of the E Street Band “pretty soon.” On Wednesday Springsteen phoned the E Street Radio show and spoke about...
Borough of Freehold creates a permanent Springsteen exhibit space.
Learn more here. Here is Bruce’s speech:...
Nils Lofgren is the latest to pull his music from Spotify
The E Street Band guitar player joins Neil Young and Joni Mitchell. Here is The Washington Post: A controversy over coronavirus misinformation on Spotify is heating up, with a handful of musicians this weekend joining Neil Young insaying they want their music...
Hey Bruce Springsteen, I know a little online magazine that you can help fund!
We love Bruce Springsteen at Current (or at least the Executive Editor and the Instagram coordinator do!). Here is Spin: In a year where many legendary artists sold their publishing rights, Bruce Springsteen may have topped them all. Billboard is reporting that the Boss...
Springsteen plays some classics at NYC benefit concert
Bruce played “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” “Promised Land,” “Glory Days,” and “Pink Cadillac” in a short set at the John Henry Friends Benefit. Watch: Here is a better video of “Darkness”:...
What if Bruce Springsteen did a song about public transportation?
“Baby We Can Take the 1” Learn more about this video here....
WBCN (Boston) and “The American Revolution”
Coming to a PBS station near you:...
Springsteen: “Do you want Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Ron DeSantis, and our ex-‘fearless leader’ deciding the fate of the American experiment?”
Good question. Watch: And “The River”:...
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Story-telling at its best:...
Why were Springsteen and Mellencamp wandering around Bay Head?
Last Sunday Joy and I took a day trip to Island Beach State Park, a state beach located on the southern tip of Jersey Shore’s Barnegat Peninsula. We decided to take the scenic route to our destination, driving down Route...
Belgians play for Bruce
What is “Waiting for sunny days”? It is the collaboration of 3 Belgian music schools: 1234asbl, Music Factory & the “Rock’s cool”. For the first time these schools came together around the same project: that of gathering more than 200...
Is Springsteen hitting the road in 2022?
The rumors are circulating. Here is Pete Chianca at Blogness on the Edge of Town: Well, Springsteen on Broadway has ended (again) and the world is timidly opening back up (at least in parts of the world that have managed...
“I’ll See You In My Dreams”
Today at the 9-11 commemoration:...
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What are you reading this summer?
Check out Jennifer Harlan’s New York Times piece on the history of summer reading. Here is a taste: Something about these dog days, more than any other time of year, invites readers to bury themselves in a book — and...
There will be no Bruce Springsteen rest stop on the Garden State Parkway
The Garden State Parkway intersects with NJ Highway 9 around Tom’s River New Jersey, roughly thirty miles South of Bruce Springsteen’s home town of Freehold. But the guy who was sprung from cages out on Highway 9 does not want...
Did Mary’s dress “wave,” or did it “sway”?
Apparently it swayed....
Meet me in the city!
Not really. Here’s Bruce:...