notebook with "Thunder Road" handwritten lyrics displayed at The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music - photos by Shawn Poole June 29, 2026 Last Friday afternoon, I made my first return visit to The Bruce Springsteen Center For American Music. It was under very different circumstances than the very first time I got to visit the Center, which of course was for Letters To You's special advance tour. This time around, like any other regular visitor, I simply bought my own

Clockwise from top left: Felipe Rose, Spencer Battiest, Danielle “Redbird” Marrone, and Adrian Matthias Stevens and Sean Querino Snyder - photos courtesy of The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music June 25, 2026 On Tuesday June 30, the final day of Pride Month 2026, The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music will host a special - and free - panel-discussion event, entitled Voices of Pride: Identity, Representation, and the Power of Music, and co-sponsored by Hard

June 22, 2026 "Over here on E Street, we mourn the death of the great record man and close friend Clive Davis. At 22 years old, he changed my life when he signed me to Columbia Records. He treated me with the same respect and kindness as a 22-year-old nobody as he did after all my success. A great man. All our prayers and love." - Bruce Springsteen's social-media statement, issued on June 22, 2026

photo by Mark Krajnak (Philadelphia, PA - May 30, 2026) June 21, 2026 How fitting that this year, on his 75th birthday, Nils Lofgren's special day also falls on Father's Day. After all, Bruce Springsteen himself famously dubbed Lofgren onstage to be the E Street Band's "Godfather Of The Guitar, The Minister Of Heart And Spirit, the great, great Nils Lofgren!" More than a quarter-century has passed since Springsteen first used that "Godfather" line to describe Lofgren's musica