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Springsteen Tuesday Morning Link Roundup
• Point Blank, a UK Bruce Springsteen fanzine from the 1980s is now available as free downloadable PDFs. What would we do without the Internets? • Springsteen makes No. 6 in the Billboard poll of...
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Take the Blogness ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town’ box set poll
Judging from the response to my Twitter and Facebook posts about a Q&A with Stevie Van Zandt that touched on the Darkness on the Edge of Town box set in the works — it ranged from unabashed...
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Springsteen (and other stuff) Tuesday Night Link Roundup
OK, I don’t know about you, but I have this feeling that things are about to start happening in Springsteenville. (You know, that small New Jersey borough just north of Jovitown.) There hasn’t exactly...
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Springsteen covers 2010 Hall of Fame inductees
If you a) have a cable package that includes Fuse, and are b) reading this blog, chances are you watched the 25th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony last night. It was nice to see...
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Friday night on E Street: What’s up with the band?
Bruce may be holed up writing his memoirs (or whatever), but that doesn’t mean the boys in the band haven’t been keeping busy. The Big Man, for one, is planning his annual Clarence Clemons Classic on...
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Van Zandt’s latest proteges: The Contrast, ‘God of Malfunction’
Where does Stevie Van Zandt find these bands? It’s easy to imagine the Wicked Cool Records founder prowling around with his ear pressed up against strange garages, listening for the vague strains of...
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Like Gaslight Anthem? Get tickets now
Who says I never give you any notice? In nine minutes you can get presale tickets to U.S. dates for the Gaslight Anthem, Springsteen’s favorite band of up-and-coming Jersey punks. Check the link for...
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DVD Review: E Street Band is rough and ready on Springsteen’s ‘London Calling’
At the outset of “London Calling,” the new DVD capturing Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band live at the Hard Rock Calling festival in London’s Hyde Park last summer, The Boss and his longtime...
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Summer School with Stevie Van Zandt
As if Steve Van Zandt isn’t busy enough these days, last week he presented a one-hour discussion on the craft of rock and roll at eMusic’s Summer School at City Winery in New York. After an hour long...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Ringo!
Yes, the oldest Beatle turned seventy (!) the other day. Peace and love! Ringo has a long history of E Street Band association. If you read Clarence’s memoir Big Man you know he was hanging out with...
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Talking Springsteen with the B Street Band’s Bruce, Glenn Stuart
The world’s longest-running Bruce Springsteen tribute act, New Jersey’s own B Street Band, comes to Blogness’s backyard — Melrose, Mass. — this weekend to perform their second annual benefit for the...
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Springsteen ‘The Brokenhearted’ Promise Countdown Link Roundup
I’ve been taking some well-deserved (according to me) R&R the last few days, but Springsteen fever never takes a vacation! And yes, I just used the phrase “Springsteen fever.” I’m clearly not a...
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Springsteen Solo Album (?) Long Overdue Link Roundup
As Backstreets.com reports upon Steven Van Zandt’s radio declaration that he expected a solo album to be Springsteen’s next move — keeping in mind that Stevie tends to just blurt out whatever pops...
View ArticleBruce Goes Underground: Springsteen visits Little Steven’s Underground Garage
Consider this your official Blogness reminder that you definitely want to listen to Little Steven’s Underground Garage for the next three weekends. You probably want to listen to this great show most...
View ArticleEmbarrasingly Overdue Springsteen Link Roundup
Yes, I know there hasn’t exactly been a flurry of Springsteen-related activity lately (as deftly pointed out by our new blogger Sue, below), but that’s no excuse for not keeping up with what tidbits...
View ArticleLittle Steven Joins Southside Johnny on Stone Pony Stage (with video!)
Great show Saturday night in Asbury Park on the Stone Pony Summer stage. Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes were joined by Richie “LaBamba” Rosenberg, Mark Pender, Soozie Tyrell and Lisa Lowell to...
View Article3 Valentine’s Day presents from Steve Van Zandt
Prepare to get what may be the best Valentine ever. (Although if you’re at work, you may want to use some headphones.) But that’s not the only Valentine’s Day present from Bruce Springsteen’s...
View ArticleREVIEW: Springsteen delivers a moving, rollicking house party at Fenway
When Bruce Springsteen asked Boston’s Fenway Park crowd who was seeing him and the E Street Band for the first time, a surprising number of hands went up. “The pressure’s on!” he declared. He needn’t...
View ArticleREVIEW: Springsteen’s second Fenway show spotlights a loose Bruce
If Bruce Springsteen’s first show at Fenway Park this week was an example of the powerhouse tour-de-force the Boss is known for – complete with a theme and a meticulously planned flow of classic and...
View ArticleBruce Week in Boston: Random thoughts on Springsteen’s Beantown blast
Sure, you’ve read our “official” take on Bruce Springsteen’s Boston shows (Fenway 1, Fenway 2 and Gillette), but I know what you’re wondering: What was REALLY going through your mind during those...
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