photo by Mark Krajnak July 29, 2026 Bruce Springsteen speaking at the official dedication/ribbon-cutting event for The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music on June 6, 2026: "On my personal note, I gotta thank my beautiful wife of thirty-five years... I love you, baby... Without her, so much of this simply would not exist. Her love, her talent, her patience, her support... are essential to everything I do and that I have done. She is my heart, my soul. She has struggled

July 28, 2026 Last Friday, Bruce Springsteen and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick were honored as the first recipients of The American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU's) new Ralph Ellison Award for Defenders of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in the Arts, Business, Science, and Sports. In officially announcing the award, which is presented biennially, ACLU executive director Anthony D. Romero (pictured below presenting Springsteen with his award) said, "Bruce Springstee

July 16, 2026 "Come on, rise up!" exhorts Bruce Springsteen in "My City of Ruins," originally written for his adopted and beloved hometown of Asbury Park, NJ. The seaside resort town has been strongly tied to Springsteen's music, persona, and recording career since even before an Asbury Park postcard served as the visual centerpiece of his first album-cover. When Springsteen played his famous 2024 show on the Asbury Park beach (documented for posterity here and here,) "My Cit

July 14, 2026 There's no better way to celebrate today's 114th anniversary of the birth of the late, great, and artistically immortal Woody Guthrie than to watch Greg Mitchell's recently released film Woody Guthrie and the Ghost of Tom Joad Today. Mitchell has crafted a beautiful, moving, enlightening, and timely one-hour film about how Guthrie's path came to cross that of writer John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath, and the enduring significance of their intersectio

imagery from the "Education of Bruce Springsteen" exhibit at The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music - (photo by Shawn Poole) July 4, 2026 Editor's note: Today is not only the U.S.A.'s 250th birthday. It is also Vietnam War veteran, author, speaker, activist, and organizer Ron Kovic's 80th birthday, and this year marks the 50th anniversary of his groundbreaking, moving, and inspiring memoir Born on the Fourth of July. display at the "Education of Bruce Springsteen" ex

photo by Rob DeMartin (Atlanta; May 2, 2026) - used with permission July 2, 2026 Happy Birthday to "Professor" Roy Bittan, who turns 77 today, and best wishes for many more Happy Birthdays to come. Y'know, you'd think that a guy known as the "Professor" would have gotten some extensive teaching and tutoring experience under his belt by now. But it actually was only a few weeks ago when Professor Bittan finally began his first steady teaching gig. He currently can be found giv

July 1, 2026 On the upcoming Independence Day holiday weekend, which also will mark the U.S. semiquincentennial, Bruce Springsteen and The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music at Monmouth University will be featured in a half-hour PBS News special entitled Bruce Springsteen: Finding America in Song. It's an expanded version of PBS NewsHour's recent report on the opening of the Springsteen Center. PBS NewsHour's Geoff Bennett interviewing Bruce Springsteen at the Spring