Ring out the old, ring in the new: Bidding a fond farewell to 2025 and welcoming in 2026, Boss-style

December 31, 2025

Happy New Year to one and all, Dear Readers! In 2025, we Springsteen fans certainly ended up with quite a lot to experience, enjoy (at least most of the time,) and discuss. Once again, continuing what quickly has become a year-end tradition, Letters To You has joined forces with our friend Jesse Jackson at the Set Lusting Bruce podcast to discuss the "Springsteen 2025 Year in Review." Clocking in at almost three hours - and that's AFTER the editing! - Jesse hosted a conversation with Letters To You contributors Caroline Madden, Joyce Millman, and editor/publisher Shawn Poole that was recorded on December 22nd. We dove deep into the ups and downs of what ended up being another very significant year in Springsteen's career. You can click below to hear our edited conversation via YouTube:

You also can click here to access other streaming/listening options. Having marked its tenth anniversary this year and still going strong, Set Lusting Bruce is the internet's oldest continually-running Springsteen-themed podcast. You can click here to learn more about it and you can click here to become one of Set Lusting Bruce's Patreon supporters. We at Letters To You are honored to continue our partnership with Jesse Jackson and his Set Lusting Bruce podcast in our annual year-in-review discussion.

Again, Happy New Year to all. If you listen to the just-released-last-week 50th-anniversary edition of Tower Theater, Philadelphia 1975, recorded fifty years ago tonight down the road a bit from "Letters To You Central," during "Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)" you'll hear Bruce's first-ever onstage, jokey reference to those now-famous dual-Time-and-Newsweek-covers: "Wait a minute, Rosie!," exults Springsteen, "Tell him [your Papa] I ain't no freak, 'cause I got my picture on the cover of Time and Newsweek!" Of course, a lot has happened since that major-breakthrough year of 1975, and not all of it good, either. Nevertheless, Bruce and many of his key collaborators are still here making music, and we're still here listening to it, continuing to derive from it all that is good. Our dearly departed loved ones are still here with us in spirit, too. We look forward to moving towards whatever 2026 might have in store for us... together, like spirits in the night. See ya next year!