photo by Mark Krajnak for LettersToYou.net September 4, 2026 Forty-one years ago, Steven Van Zandt wanted to do something... He had stepped away from the E Street Band, and was looking for what was next. "I needed an identity, so I thought, 'I’ll be the political guy,'" Van Zandt told Founding Executive Director Bob Santelli on Tuesday night during The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music’s inaugural installment of its Music + Film Series. Their conversation followed a

September 2, 2026 Bruce Springsteen, in conversation with Brian Fallon, can be seen throughout guitar-manufacturer Fender's newly released film The Fender Telecaster: The One That Started It All. The film, appropriately running just over 75 minutes, celebrates the 75th anniversary of Leo Fender's introduction of the Telecaster guitar model. (The model, originally dubbed the "Broadcaster," was first introduced at The National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM)'s annual show

September 1, 2026 While we've been diving deep recently on the subject of significant anniversaries this year, there is yet another major 2026 anniversary that should be remembered and celebrated appropriately within Springsteen fandom: the 45th anniversary of Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's 1981 European tour. Europe '81 was their first major European tour (having played only four European gigs on the '75 Born to Run Tour and no European shows at all on the '78 Darkn