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Someday, girl, I don't know when, we're gonna get to that place...
February 9, 2025 No matter who wins tonight's Super Bowl, H.E.R. will be heard during the game's fourth quarter interpreting Bruce...


"Living Proof" that the Springsteen/Nugs archival-concerts series' "First Fridays" are back, baby!
February 8, 2025 Yesterday saw the first "First Friday" release from the Springsteen/Nugs archival concert series since last March's...


For Record Store Day 2025...
February 6, 2025


Caroline Madden helps to bring us the newest BOSS ish and, coming in April, a BABY IT'S YOU Blu-ray!
February 1, 2025 We're not surprised at all, though of course very pleased, to learn that our own contributing writer/film-scholar...


Where Shakin' Street and E Street Meet: Exploring the MC5's Springsteen-related connections
January 29, 2025 This month has marked the 55th anniversary of the release of Back In The USA , the second album by the MC5 , released on...


Springsteen Archives announces its 2025 American Music Honorees
January 29, 2025 The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University has announced its 2025 American Music...


Something special to honor and remember our back-to-back birthday-boy prophets on E Street...
"The Phantom" (left, R.I.P.) and "Mad Dog" (right) flank their friend, bandmate, and boss - THE "Boss" - on the Jersey Shore back in the...


Out of the darkness, at last... Leonard Peltier is coming home!
January 22, 2025 On Monday, in one of his final acts as outgoing President of the United States, Joseph R. Biden, Jr. issued an Executive...


Bruce takes the cake (truly) and rejoins his friends fighting Parkinson's, etc. @ LoD WinterFest '25
photo by Mark Krajnak January 21, 2025 There was a lot going on during Light of Day 's WinterFest weekend this year, including a U.S....


For Light of Day 2025... Thundercrack! Bruce comes back!
photo by Mark Krajnak January 19, 2025 Last night, after a four-years absence and for the thirteenth time in the quarter-century history...


We're just around the corner now... Grushecky and Nile talk 25 years of Light of Day
January 15, 2025 Saturday night's Light of Day Winterfest "Main Event" - aka "Bob's Birthday Bash," saluting Light of Day founder Bob...


Straight outta the gate for 2025, the Springsteen Archives is steppin' out over the line...
January 15, 2025 With 2025 only two weeks old, The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University ...


Sam Moore, 1935-2025
January 11, 2025 NOTE: Click here for the version of Bruce Springsteen's memorial tribute to Sam Moore on Springsteen's official website,...


Big Man On Campus: On Clarence Clemons Day 2025, we explore C.'s college days, and his first band!
Clarence Clemons, Jr.; Maryland State College, Class of 1964; Major: Music Education (of COURSE!) - photo from the 1964 Maryland State...


For Elvis@90, I review the latest Presley doc featuring Springsteen, Netflix's RETURN OF THE KING
January 8, 2025 Merry Elvismas! Today marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of Elvis Presley . If you're looking for a...


Father Time Is Comin' To Town! - Set Lusting Bruce & Letters To You review the year 2024 on E Street
December 31, 2024 Just as we did last year , and now hope to continue doing as an annual year-end tradition, Letters To You...


Merry Christmas, babies! ...and Happy New Year, too, with "never-before-heard material" on its way!
photo by Dan Reiner (Toronto; November 6, 2024) - used with permission December 24, 2024 Well, it's not Easter, and it's not...


"Santa Big Man" returns to remind us of what WE can give, in our exclusive free music-streaming EP
December 24, 2024 Hands down, thanks especially to his crucial role in "Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town" over the years, the immortal...


The EXPANDED Adventures of "Santa Dave" and His "Head Elf" (featuring "that nice boy" from NJ)
"Santa Dave" Marsh and "Head Elf" Greg Drew doing what they did best at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for more than twenty years...


Raise a glass...
photo from The Stone Pony, Labor Day 2024 by Mark Krajnak - @jerseystyle_photography on Instagram December 20, 2024 "Southside Johnny......


"The wind's whippin' down the boardwalk" - Two ways to help NJ-Shore-based charities this "Xmastime"
December 16, 2024 Lookin' for last-minute Christmahanukwanzakah gift ideas for that Springsteen fan in your life, and/or maybe even...


On his birthday, David Sancious has musical gifts for US!
November 30, 2024 Happy 71st Birthday to the E Street Band's awesome former keyboardist - and just all-around amazing musician in his own...


For Native American Heritage Day 2024, tell President Biden to free Leonard Peltier; "Clemency Now!"
November 29, 2024 It's Native American Heritage Day 2024. Native American activist Leonard Peltier is now eighty years old, in poor...


Support WhyHunger's 2024 Hungerthon by purchasing exclusive Springsteen "The Promised Land" swag
November 27, 2024 It's that time of year when we're in the midst of WhyHunger 's annual Hungerthon drive to fight hunger. Bruce...

Across The Border: Joyce Millman's visit to Vancouver for the final 2024 Springsteen/ESB show
[Editor's note: You can click on any photo here to view a full, unobstructed presentation of all of this article's photos.] November 27,...


Hats ON to Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band! (Santa hats, that is.)
November 25, 2024 Last Friday night, November 22, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band performed their final concert of the year in...

Have a wicked-cool birthday, Stevie! Check out our birthday-salute podcast w/ author Robert Lawson
November 22, 2024 Best wishes for a wicked-cool happy birthday and many, many more to Steven Malafronte Lento Van Zandt, a.k.a. The Kid,...


Reminder: Today's Springsteen Archives "Conversations With Our Curator" guest is Caroline Madden
November 20, 2024 The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University 's monthly online "Conversations With...


Just around the corner to the Light of Day onsale... and Kristen Ann Carr Fund's Night To Remember!
November 13, 2024 This week will close with some important dates for two charitable organizations long supported by Bruce Springsteen. On...


Waitin' for YOUR shout from the crowd... Author of Springsteen-themed book seeks fans for new survey
November 12, 2024 Hey, Springsteen fans, Rhonda Bernadette wants to ask you a few questions... Bernadette, a longtime fan and founder of...
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