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

June 17, 2026 Bruce Springsteen certainly has come a long way from his days of playing supermarket grand openings with his early band The Castiles to the public opening of a new building named after himself - The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music, of course - just last weekend. But tomorrow, Thursday, June 18, he'll help to open a building quite unlike any he's ever helped to open before: his first-ever gig at a U.S. Presidential Center's opening. Springsteen will b

photo by Mark Krajnak June 14, 2026 Below is our transcription of the narration provided by Bruce Springsteen for Thom Zimny's short introductory film The Ties That Bind: Bruce Springsteen’s American Music Journey, now playing exclusively in The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music's Powell Soundstage theater: Welcome to New Jersey, the place where I was born, raised, loved, loathed, left, and returned to, and where I'll probably spend the rest of my life. Now I've bee

photo by Mark Krajnak June 13, 2026 Letters To You contributing photographer Mark Krajnak and I were fortunate to be granted a special advance tour of The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music's new building, almost two weeks before its official public opening today. On June 3, the Center's Director of Curatorial Affairs, Melissa Kozlowski, and its Museum Educator, Aidan Vogel, were kind enough to give Mark and me a guided, private tour, even as they and the rest of the

June 12, 2026 As The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music's official public opening occurs this weekend, Letters To You is presenting a three-part series of reports on the recent events that have led up to the big day. Here in Part 1, we cover the series of special concerts that the Center has held in anticipation of its public opening... ---------- photo by Melissa Lawlor - courtesy of The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music May 29, 2026 - America 250: A Jerse

Washington, D.C., May 27, 2026 - photo by Pam Springsteen - used w/ permission June 10, 2026 To paraphrase what was the tour's nightly closing song - Bob Dylan's "Chimes of Freedom" delivered in its Byrds-inspired arrangement - as we listen one more time and watch with one more look, here are additional observations and insights from some of Letters To You's contributing writers and friends on Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's 2026 Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour, a

June 6, 2026 On January 10, 2017, 35,000 items from the personal collections of Bruce Springsteen fans were gifted to Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. In the years since, the University has built a 30,000-square foot archival center and museum upon this foundational donation. Now known as The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music, it officially opens to the public on June 13, and the building gets officially dedicated later this morning. Between 2001

photo by the Springsteen Center's Museum Educator Aidan Vogel June 4, 2026 The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music doesn't officially open its doors to the public until June 13, but yesterday Letters To You's editor/publisher Shawn Poole and contributing photographer Mark Krajnak got a sneak-peek of what's behind its doors. Director of Curatorial Affairs Melissa Kozlowski and Museum Educator Aidan Vogel were gracious enough to show them around the place, in the midst