March 9, 2026 By this time next month, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour is expected to be in full swing, with three shows under its belt already. Therefore, last Friday's archival Nugs live-recording release is probably the last "First Friday" release we'll see in the series for at least a couple of months. It's fitting, then, that just as was the case with the last monthly release in the series before last year's European version o

photo by Stewart Cook - used with permission March 5, 2026 Tomorrow at least three living U.S. presidents, along with many other leaders, politicians, and dignitaries from around the world, will be in Chicago at the final public memorial service for veteran Civil Rights Movement-based leader, activist, and international negotiator Jesse Jackson, before his private funeral and burial services on Saturday. David Masciotra , the author of Working on a Dream: The Progressive Pol

photo by Rob DeMartin (Gelsenkirchen, Germany - June 27, 2025) - used w/ permission February 27, 2026 Happy 46th birthday to the one and only Jake Clemons . While we usually see and hear much of Jake playing his late uncle's saxophone whenever he performs in the E Street Band, the photo above - from last spring/summer's Land of Hope & Dreams European tour - reminds us that the sax isn't the only instrument he's been known to play at Springsteen/ESB shows. And of course in Ja

photo by Pam Springsteen February 25, 2026 Let the altered-setlist speculation begin... Yesterday it was announced officially on Bruce Springsteen's social media that Tom Morello "will be performing on stage with Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band on selected songs for every date of the Land Of Hope & Dreams American Tour. "Grammy-winning, Harvard-educated, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted artist, songwriter, and activist Tom Morello is living proof of the transformat