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Springsteen at “Stand Up for Heroes”
Last night the Boss played acoustic versions of “Addicted to Love” (live debut); “Dancing in the Dark”‘; “Power of Prayer”; “Working on a Highway.” Here is Chris Jordan at the Asbury Park Press: The Boss is back. Bruce Springsteen surprised...
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Monmouth University (NJ) will build a new building for The Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music
Here is Chris Jordan at The Asbury Park Press: This building is born to educate. The Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music announced on Wednesday, Oct. 18, that a new center on the campus of Monmouth University will...
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Springsteen is done for the year
The Boss has canceled all of his remaining 2023 shows. (He originally just canceled September shows). He continues to battle peptic ulcer disease. Here is Melina Newman at Billboard: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band have pulled their remaining 2023...
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Remembering our fallen heroes:...
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Springsteen postpones all his September shows
He is dealing with peptic ulcer disease:...
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“…this was a show with a theme, and that theme was mortality”
I wish I got the chance to see Springsteen last week at MetLife Stadium, but it just wasn’t in the cards this time around. Though it’s not the same as a concert, this reflection from an English Springsteen fan who...
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Springsteen rocks Met Life Stadium
He’s back in Jersey! Blogness on the Edge of Town has the set list and the rest of the videos....
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Springsteen opens Gillette Stadium show with “Lonesome Day”
This is the first time “Lonesome Day” has ever opened a Springsteen show. Did he have Jacksonville in mind?...
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Springsteen reads a fan’s research paper during a concert in Edinburgh
Nathan Collet‘s University of Nottingham 12,000 word research paper (it looks like a master’s thesis) was titled, “Brilliant Disguises: An Analysis of Masculinity Through the Works and Life of Bruce Springsteen.” I’ll let the Daily Record take it from here:...
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Sometimes the “robber barons” and “greedy thieves” bring “death” to our hometown. Backstreets magazine closes shop.
In July, 2022, the editors of the Bruce Springsteen fan magazine Backstreets responded to outrageously high ticket prices for Springsteen’s current tour. If you aren’t familiar with this story, get up to speed here and here. For the first time...
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Jim Cullen on Bruce Springsteen’s first album
Columbia Records released Greetings from Asbury Park on January 5, 1973. Jim Cullen, the dean of Springsteen scholars, reflects at The Washington Post: Fifty years ago this week, a scruffy young artist from New Jersey released his first album. In...
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Episode 106: “Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Long Walk Home'”
In this episode we chat with historian Jonathan D. Cohen about his edited collection Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen and the current state of “Springsteen Studies.” We also ask Cohen if there is any connection between his current book, For a Dollar...
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Is it “Mary’s dress sways” or “Mary’s dress waves”?
A lot of Springsteen news here, including the Boss responding to rumors that he will be part of the Taylor Swift tour. Watch:...
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Bruce Springsteen’s St. Louis fan
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