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  • Achtung, Springsteen vinyl & magazine collectors! Win something special from ROLLING STONE Germany!

    s fortieth anniversary, with Bruce Springsteen's all-time-best-selling album having been released officially In The Dark" b/w the album-outtake "Pink Cadillac," which of course also will soon turn the big 4-0, having Thanks to our friends at Rolling Stone Germany, we have three copies to raffle off randomly to three entry by correctly answering this trivia question: According to Springsteen biographer and music-writer Dave Marsh, after Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band played their first Germany concert on April 7, 1981

  • EXCLUSIVE: Message from a Miracle

    and moving 2015 keynote lecture by retired music writer (and Springsteen biographer) par excellence Dave Marsh, delivered at Case Western Reserve University for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's Music Masters second is an excerpt from Robinson's 2010 SXSW Keynote, presented as an onstage conversation between Marsh

  • Just around the corner to the Light of Day onsale... and Kristen Ann Carr Fund's Night To Remember!

    November 13, 2024 This week will close with some important dates for two charitable organizations long Over the past quarter-century, Light of Day will have raised more than $6.5 million to combat Parkinson daughter of former longtime Springsteen co-manager Barbara Carr and music-writer/Springsteen-biographer Dave Marsh. first diagnosis and have jumped in with an attitude of 'how can we help?'

  • Where Shakin' Street and E Street Meet: Exploring the MC5's Springsteen-related connections

    Springsteen biographer and music writer Dave Marsh grew up in the Detroit area, and was among the most Marsh's 1971 piece for Creem , "The MC5: Back on Shakin' Street," as collected and heavily re-written for his 1985 anthology Fortunate Son: The Best of Dave Marsh , remains an illuminating and insightful In his 1985 introduction to the piece, Marsh, who already had invented the term "punk rock" in 1970 while Kick Out The Jams with Dave Marsh , after the MC5's most famous song .

  • Soul Man Speaking: Lisa Iannucci's "lost" Sam Moore interviews

    I’ve known Dave Marsh for some time, and I know he’s good friends with you and your wife. SM: Oh yeah, Dave Marsh. What did he say this time? LI: Um, I don’t know. Well yes, he and Barbara [Carr, Dave Marsh's wife and Bruce Springsteen's former co-manager] are among Dave Marsh who did it with me. And I told Jon [Landau,] and Barbara [Carr,] and even Dave [Marsh.]

  • E Street Radio to salute Mojo Nixon, the late, great, Springsteen-dubbed "King of DJs"

    Outlaw Country - the country-music satellite-radio channel initially launched by Stevie Van Zandt - have Music writer, radio personality, and Springsteen biographer Dave Marsh - now retired from E Street Radio Bruce Springsteen himself also contacted Marsh to request a recorded copy of the show. Tuesday, February 27 at 4pm ET Wednesday, February 28 at 9am ET Thursday, February 29 at 6pm ET Friday, March 1 at 10am ET Saturday, March 2 at 5pm ET Sunday, March 3 at 8am ET SiriusXM subscribers also will be

  • "Sit and listen to..." NEBRASKA '82: EXPANDED EDITION - the Letters To You review

    Bruce at 76 now looks and sounds more than ever like "that cranky old preacher Ecclesiastes," to whom Dave Marsh aptly compared Springsteen's songwriting perspective in Marsh's essential Nebraska -focused "Reason following is equally true about "My Father's House," thanks very much yet again to the insights of Dave Marsh, this time writing in his equally essential 1982 Record Magazine review of Nebraska , reprinted in 1985's Fortunate Son: The Best of Dave Marsh : "its dream of reconciliation between father and son

  • Stewart Francke, 1958-2025 - singer/songwriter, journalist, author, longtime "protagonist for life"

    Music-writer and Springsteen-biographer Dave Marsh called Stewart's 2000 album What We Talk Of... Francke's 2013 album Love Implied : That album featured a track entitled "Drive North," which might have I also can't help but wonder if "Drive North" in turn might have been at least partly inspired by a story drums sounded boxy and shitty, but now if you were to alter one decibel or Hz on the floor tom I’d have

  • The Ghost of James Baldwin

    Marsh . (And speaking of President Obama and his tenure at the White House, during that period Marsh's email In Marsh's excellent 2006 book Bruce Springsteen On Tour: 1968-2005 , he turned to Baldwin's writing The portions of the essay that Marsh quoted, however, were two different ones that directly connected "[B]ut Springsteen," wrote Marsh of the Born to Run Tour that launched fifty years ago this summer,

  • Springsteen sings of what this hard land was, is, and... might one day be - Danny Alexander on INYO

    see one of the early shows on the Joad  tour in the Rosemont Theater outside Chicago, and I could not have guitar, that high head voice blending with shimmering keys as if the father’s and daughter’s ghosts have “Inyo” itself may have pretty-much-unsingable verses, but the “ain’t you feeling dry” chorus invites of Kick Out the Jams: Jibes, Barbs, Tributes, and Rallying Cries from 35 Years of Music Writing by Dave Marsh .

  • Cleo Kennedy: From Birmingham to Bruce...and Beyond

    Thanks to my friend Dave Marsh, I already knew of Cleo's historical ties to the Civil Rights Movement "We are still alive, after all that we have been through and all of the stuff that happened during that don't feel like we’re totally where we should be anyway, but we're much further than where we would have Since that time, happily, my friendship with Cleo has grown, and I have gotten to learn so much more I was honored to join with Bob Marovich, Dave Marsh, Chris Phillips, and many others in supporting a

  • Cover me... twice! Columbia promotion vet Paul Rappaport on the (in)famous TIME/NEWSWEEK covers @50

    The news-magazines, issues of which consistently got dated a week ahead of the date they first hit newsstands , were each dated October 27, 1975 for their respective Springsteen-cover-story issues. For example, in his Born to Run: The Bruce Springsteen Story biography , Dave Marsh wrote, "One way What Marsh didn't note in print was that it very well might have been Marsh himself who informed and encouraged Cocks - with whom Marsh was friends and shared great enthusiasm for Springsteen's music -

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