A murderer’s row of musicians will take the stage in New York’s Central Park on Saturday (August 21st): Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Polo G, Patti Smith, Babyface, LL Cool J, and Jennifer Hudson are among those slated to perform at the city-sanctioned reopening bash, which caps off a week of …
Read More »Guitarist Shane Fontayne on His Years With Bruce Springsteen, CSN, Sting, and Rod Stewart
Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …
Read More »Watch Bruce Springsteen's Return to Live Rock with Dropkick Murphys
With eight musicians in their current touring incarnation — bagpiper very much included — Boston roots-punk gods the Dropkick Murphys are one of the only bands who practically qualify as a mass gathering in their own right. But with their Streaming Outta Fenway show Friday night, they managed to put …
Read More »Bruce Springsteen Crashes a Stone Pony Soundcheck to Dance With Wife Patti Scialfa
Quincy Mumford and the Reason Why were preparing for their show at the Stone Pony on Friday when a husband and wife entered the Asbury Park establishment and began slow dancing to their music. Eventually, Quincy Mumford realized that the couple who had crashed his soundcheck were Bruce Springsteen and …
Read More »Bruce Springsteen Releases Legendary 1978 Passaic, New Jersey Concert
There’s no shortage of beloved Bruce Springsteen bootlegs out there in the fan community, but one of the most cherished ones was taped at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey on September 19th, 1978. It was a smoking hot night midway through the Darkness on the Edge of Town …
Read More »Bruce Springsteen Releases 1986 Bridge School Live Album
Bruce Springsteen surprise-released a new live album chronicling his October 13th, 1986 acoustic set at Neil Young’s inaugural Bridge School Benefit Concert at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. The concert marked Springsteen’s first major appearance since the end of his massive Born In the U.S.A. tour, during which …
Read More »Watch Bruce Springsteen's Surprise Appearance With Little Steven in Asbury Park
“I’ve got an old friend around here somewhere,” Steve Van Zandt told the crowd near at the end of his set at Asbury Park’s Paramount Theater on Wednesday night. “I don’t know where.” That seemed like a safe bet that Bruce Springsteen was somewhere in the house, but it wasn’t …
Read More »Bruce Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt Set for New Asbury Park Scene Documentary
Bruce Springsteen, Steve Van Zandt and more recount their Jersey Shore roots in a new documentary, Asbury Park: Riot, Redemption, Rock ‘n’ Roll. The film will premiere April 28th at the Paramount Theatre in Asbury Park as part of the 2019 Asbury Park Music and Film Festival. It will then …
Read More »Trailers of the Week: 'Springsteen on Broadway,' 'I Am the Night,' 'Artemis Fowl'
This week in trailer-osity: A quick first looks at a new Disney YA franchise; one last look at Hulu‘s YA du jour series, right before the new season drops; a tease for Springsteen on Broadway coming to a living room near you; and extended looks at a slasher-flick sequel, the …
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