Bruce Springsteen
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Pop Goes the Flood November 04, 2024
Who is not enthralled by the story of Noah and his floating menagerie, the few survivors of a global flood? This awesome spectacle has been reimagined in countless illustrations, while versions of a toy ark with colorful pairs of complementary animal...
Bruce Springsteen Is the Last American Liberal October 29, 2024
Memories of 11 September, and the dark days that followed, are universal among geriatric American millennials. As a member of the generation that came of age in the Nineties and early 2000s, I can easily return to those early hours of fear and war, s...
What Hillary Left Out About The Garden October 27, 2024
Donald Trump is planning to hold one of his legendary rallies at Madison Square Garden this Sunday. Taking place only 9 days before Election Day, this event will be one of the last in the former president’s career as a candidate.Even if you have neve...
"The Boss" at 75 September 30, 2024
Bruce Springsteen is a force of nature.You may not like his music, his politics may annoy you, but there is no denying the charisma, exuberance, and raw power Bruce Springsteen brings to the studio and the stage. That music consists of 21 studio albu...
Born to Boss September 13, 2024
In the department of non-news, the recent revelation that Bruce Springsteen has moved from E Street to Easy Street and joined the billionaire ranks of Taylor Swift, Rihanna, and Paul McCartney deserves a tick. Yes, the working-class hero from New Jer...
Bruce Springsteen’s Tour de Force August 12, 2024
LONDON—I have seen rock ‘n’ roll’s past, and its name is still Bruce Springsteen. I have seen Springsteen half a dozen times over five decades, indoors and outdoors, with and without the E Street Band, from the rafters and from the side of the stage....
The Rock ‘N’ Roll Humanism of Bruce Springsteen June 05, 2024
People forget how bad it was. They forget that day after day, week after week, month after month in the 1980s, the same small group of pop stars dominated radio, magazines, and TV. It was the big four: Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince, and Bruce Spri...
The Road Out of Nowhere February 15, 2024
When I was a budding young music nerd, yellowing back-issues of Rolling Stone and Creem introduced me to a number of records I’ve loved ever since. Yet one satirical essay almost ruined Bruce Springsteen for me. Its author imagined a visit to the sin...
