Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen’s new album, Wrecking Ball, comes out on March 6.

Last night Bruce Springsteen appeared on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” in the only scheduled media appearance he’ll be making to promote The Promise. And as part of it, he and “Neil Young” covered Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair.”

Bruce Springsteen’s The Promise: (The Lost Sessions: Darkness On The Edge of Town) came out today. My main thought about this album is the following: it is perfect. I do not like speaking in absolutes but seriously, have you heard it? Because listening to The Promise is exactly what it used to feel like before…Read More

Lucky Town is one of Springsteen’s few happy albums, and it should be said: he doesn’t do “happy” nearly as well as he does “depressed.” Or “angsty about the Vietnam war and also unions.” Lucky Town has exactly three truly good tracks, of which I only like two (“Better Days” and “Lucky Town”). The album…Read More

Confession: I got ridiculously sentimental while watching Bruce at half-time. Yeah, I know! I saw the crotch shot too! The crotch shot and the creepy soul patch and the weird vaudeville “delay of game” thing, I saw it all. Yet: sentiment is what Bruce is all about. Sentiment and bombast and whether or not the…Read More

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, along with Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine, preforming “The Ghost of Tom Joad” from the 1995 album by the same name. Rage Against the Machine also has the only cover of this song that I’ve ever liked, both because it maintains the general spirit of the…Read More

At the risk of posting every track from Bruce Springsteen’s Columbia Greatest Hits CD (which may or may not be my favorite, yes including Born to Run, because Columbia Greatest Hits is superior in two important aspects: it has “Glory Days” and “Dancing in the Dark” and has “Thunder Road,” “Born to Run” and “Born…Read More