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

photo by Mark Krajnak (Philadelphia, PA - May 30, 2026) June 21, 2026 How fitting that this year, on his 75th birthday, Nils Lofgren's special day also falls on Father's Day. After all, Bruce Springsteen himself famously dubbed Lofgren onstage to be the E Street Band's "Godfather Of The Guitar, The Minister Of Heart And Spirit, the great, great Nils Lofgren!" More than a quarter-century has passed since Springsteen first used that "Godfather" line to describe Lofgren's musica

June 17, 2026 Bruce Springsteen certainly has come a long way from his days of playing supermarket grand openings with his early band The Castiles to the public opening of a new building named after himself - The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music, of course - just last weekend. But tomorrow, Thursday, June 18, he'll help to open a building quite unlike any he's ever helped to open before: his first-ever gig at a U.S. Presidential Center's opening. Springsteen will b

photo by Mark Krajnak June 14, 2026 Below is our transcription of the narration provided by Bruce Springsteen for Thom Zimny's short introductory film The Ties That Bind: Bruce Springsteen’s American Music Journey, now playing exclusively in The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music's Powell Soundstage theater: Welcome to New Jersey, the place where I was born, raised, loved, loathed, left, and returned to, and where I'll probably spend the rest of my life. Now I've bee