photo by Danny Clinch - used with permission March 10, 2026 Happy Women's History Month ! Tomorrow our friends Lorraine Mangione and Donna Luff , co-authors of the book Mary Climbs In: The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen's Women Fans , will present an online authors' talk about their research, focusing on the perspectives of Springsteen’s women fans from New Jersey, as well as perceptions of New Jersey and its place in Springsteen’s music among female fans from other states and

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