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Letters To You
Jul 4, 20242 min read
JUST ANNOUNCED: 8/22 TeachRock STORIES FROM THE ROAD benefit w/ "never before seen archival footage"
July 4, 2024 Now here's some MUCH more positive and uplifting Stevie Van Zandt-/Independence Day-related news! As per the official...
Letters To You
Jul 4, 20242 min read
Where's the justice for Leonard Peltier... and "justice for all?" Say goodbye; it's Independence Day
July 4, 2024 Here in the U.S., if nothing else this Independence Day week has made one thing crystal-clear to even the most...
Letters To You
Jul 2, 20241 min read
Happy 75th, Professor!
July 2, 2024 Best wishes for a Happy 75th Birthday and many more Happy Birthdays ahead to Rock...Rock...Rockaway Beach's Piano-Pounder,...
Letters To You
Jun 29, 20241 min read
Our "BornInTheUSA@40 Roundtable" podcast drops today, on the big 4-0 of the BITUSA Tour's launch
June 29, 2024 We're wrapping up this month of celebrating, revisiting, and rethinking Bruce Springsteen's all-time best-selling album,...
Lisa Iannucci
Jun 27, 202417 min read
Soul Man Speaking: Lisa Iannucci's "lost" Sam Moore interviews
June 27, 2024 In 2022, Bruce Springsteen described Sam Moore to Rolling Stone 's Andy Greene as follows: "He’s the greatest high...
Letters To You
Jun 24, 20241 min read
From The Shive Archive: a picture of Stevie Van Zandt that you can pray to every night...
...as featured in the new HBO documentary Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple June 24, 2024 "Got a picture of Brian Wilson that I pray to every...
Shawn Poole with Greg Drew
Jun 22, 20243 min read
"Silvio"'s long-awaited return to HBO - Filmmaker Bill Teck talks STEVIE VAN ZANDT: DISCIPLE with us
June 22, 2024 Tonight at 8pm ET, "Silvio" finally returns to HBO, along with "Miami," "Sugar," "The Kid," the "RockNRoll Rebel," and of...
Letters To You
Jun 21, 20242 min read
Happy Birthday, Nils! (...featuring a special message from the "birthday boy" himself!)
June 21, 2024 From his first E Street Band gigs with the launch of the Born in the U.S.A. Tour (and the filming of the "Dancing in the...
Letters To You
Jun 19, 20243 min read
WATCH HERE-On Juneteenth, Jake Clemons releases a new music-video for his 2022 "Born Like Me" single
June 19, 2024 In commemoration of Juneteenth, Jake Clemons has released a new music-video for his 2022 single, "Born Like Me." The single...
Mark Krajnak
Jun 12, 20243 min read
A unique kind of "booked gig" - The Stone Pony celebrates the publication of I DON’T WANT TO GO HOME
June 12, 2024 When you think about a party celebrating the publication of a book, what comes to mind? Folks sipping an oaky chardonnay in...
Letters To You
Jun 12, 20242 min read
Let the speculation begin - Springsteen & the ESB back onstage, with postponed dates reset for 2025
June 12, 2024 As we post this, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band are back onstage, performing the first of three scheduled concerts...
Letters To You
Jun 10, 20241 min read
Springsteen Archives' CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR CURATOR's online "summer sessions" launch tomorrow
June 10, 2024 Summer 2024 in the U.S. doesn't begin officially until June 20, but The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American...
Letters To You
Jun 8, 20243 min read
ICYMI: more reading, chatting, re-thinking, and even a bit of re-mixing, for commemorating BITUSA@40
June 8, 2024 Not surprisingly, this week has yielded some interesting online reporting related to the 40th anniversary of Born in the...
Doug Bradley
Jun 4, 20244 min read
LTY Exclusive: Doug Bradley, Vietnam War veteran, author, and scholar, on BORN IN THE U.S.A. @40
June 4, 2024 I just re-listened to Born in the U.S.A., released forty years ago today back in 1984. Yeah, that year, the one we all grew...
Lisa Iannucci
Jun 3, 20245 min read
"On the outside looking in:" Connecting with BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN @75 author Gillian Gaar
June 3, 2024 Seattle-based Gillian Gaar is one of the premier rock journalists of the rock’n’roll era. She’s been doing the work for...
Shawn Poole
May 28, 20247 min read
"Take a good look around..." - Steven Hyden makes us think...and RE-think... BORN IN THE U.S.A. @40
May 28, 2024 "Born in the U.S.A. changed my life and gave me my largest audience. It forced me to question the way I presented my music...
Letters To You
May 26, 20241 min read
Three more shows postponed for "vocal issues," but Bruce "recuperating comfortably" & due back June 12
May 26, 2024 As per the official announcement made earlier today: Again, here's hoping that you're feeling better as soon as possible,...
Letters To You
May 25, 20241 min read
Tonight's Marseille show is postponed due to "vocal issues and under doctor's direction"
May 25, 2024 As per the official announcement, via Bruce Springsteen's Facebook page: Here's hoping that you're feeling better as soon as...
Letters To You
May 25, 20246 min read
"These are my people..." - a roundup of all official Ivors Academy audio/video/imagery to date
May 25, 2024 Updated on May 26, 2024: Complete transcripts of Paul McCartney's and Bruce Springsteen's remarks have been added below....
Letters To You
May 23, 20241 min read
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