July 1, 2026 On the upcoming Independence Day holiday weekend, which also will mark the U.S. semiquincentennial, Bruce Springsteen and The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music at Monmouth University will be featured in a half-hour PBS News special entitled Bruce Springsteen: Finding America in Song. It's an expanded version of PBS NewsHour's recent report on the opening of the Springsteen Center. PBS NewsHour's Geoff Bennett interviewing Bruce Springsteen at the Spring

notebook with "Thunder Road" handwritten lyrics displayed at The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music - photos by Shawn Poole June 29, 2026 Last Friday afternoon, I made my first return visit to The Bruce Springsteen Center For American Music. It was under very different circumstances than the very first time I got to visit the Center, which of course was for Letters To You's special advance tour. This time around, like many other regular visitors, I simply bought my o

Clockwise from top left: Felipe Rose, Spencer Battiest, Danielle “Redbird” Marrone, and Adrian Matthias Stevens and Sean Querino Snyder - photos courtesy of The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music June 25, 2026 On Tuesday June 30, the final day of Pride Month 2026, The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music will host a special - and free - panel-discussion event, entitled Voices of Pride: Identity, Representation, and the Power of Music, and co-sponsored by Hard

June 22, 2026 "Over here on E Street, we mourn the death of the great record man and close friend Clive Davis. At 22 years old, he changed my life when he signed me to Columbia Records. He treated me with the same respect and kindness as a 22-year-old nobody as he did after all my success. A great man. All our prayers and love." - Bruce Springsteen's social-media statement, issued on June 22, 2026