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No more Library of Congress road-trips needed! - TRACKS II's "Blind Spot" gets an advance release
April 17, 2025 I first got to hear a version of "Blind Spot," which today joins alongside "Rain In The River" as another advance single...


Where the dreams all hide: The Killers' complete "Encore At The Garden" film (feat. Bruce & Jake)
April 16, 2025 While collectors and vinyl fetishists may continue scouring the globe for the limited number of LP versions that still...


Happy Birthday, Mighty (and always hard-working) Max Weinberg! (See his upcoming Jukebox gigs, too.)
official concert-tour photo by Rob DeMartin (Vancouver soundcheck, Nov. 22, 2024) - used w/ permission April 13, 2025 Happy birthday, and...


"...something in remembrance of Danny" - Nugs/Live Archives drops the 2nd 2008 Federici-focused show
April 11, 2025 This month's "First Friday" archival Nugs live-recording release actually has ended up being a "Second Friday" release,...


EXCLUSIVE: Message from a Miracle
photo by Wilhelm Rosenthal - used with permission April 11, 2025 Standing onstage in Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater just over thirteen...


Wow; Bruce ain't foolin' this week! TRACKS II announced, "Rain In The River" drops, & today... MORE!
April 4, 2025 Whew, what a week! And it's not quite over yet, Springsteen fans... Although the initial teaser-announcement dropped on...


A Letters To You exclusive... The Previously Untold Story of Springsteen’s Disney/Pixar "Pushiness"
April 1, 2025 These days, with principal photography now completed for the first-ever Springsteen biopic (presumably hitting theaters...


"I had a friend, was a big baseball player back in high school..." - Remembering Joe DePugh
March 31, 2025 May, 2005 photo by Don Norkus Click here to read the archived Waterbury Record article "On my way out … Joe DePugh’s...


"Thank you, darlin'..." - Springsteen appears and performs in tribute to Patti Smith
March 27, 2025 photo by Bill Hanrahan for Music Planet Radio Archive - www.musicplanetradio.com - used w/ permission Well, despite the...


This month's archival set: an odd 2012 NEBRASKA-heavy show, recorded live in "The Cornhusker State"
March 8, 2025 The recently resumed Springsteen/Nugs "First Friday" series continues with yesterday's release of Omaha, NE Nov 15, 2012 ....


Wishing Jake Clemons a "Killer" 45th birthday...
photo courtesy of BigShotte Management Group - used with permission February 27, 2025 Happy 45th Birthday, and many, many more Happy...


The James Lee Burke/Nils Lofgren Mutual Admiration Society
photo courtesy of Nils Lofgren February 14, 2025 EDITOR'S NOTE: Our friend and Letters To You contributor Joe Amodei of Virgil Films -...


The Springsteen Archives continues the conversations...
February 12, 2025 The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University (BSACAM) now has its monthly online...


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...
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