Bruce Springsteen announced that his five homeland shows at New Jersey’s Giants Stadium over the next two weeks—the final concerts to take place at the Meadowlands’ football stadium, which will be torn down at the end of the 2009-10 football season—would each be devoted to classic albums from his back catalog: Two shows each will be devoted to Born To Run and Born In The USA, while one will be given over to the Boss’ 1978 album Darkness On The Edge Of Town. MORE »
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Bruce Springsteen Is Now Born To Run Through His Albums
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Why The Misfits Are The Most Mythic Of All New Jersey Artists
Creation Records founder/Guardian music scribe Alan McGee thinks that Bon Jovi should be among New Jersey’s musical/cultural ambassadors to the world. Well, Bon Jovi is better than The Sopranos, by which I mean Bon Jovi has given us more emotional/historical signposts to cling to than Tony et al. But Bon Jovi is hardly the emblematic New Jersey band of the ’80s, let alone the one that should continue to represent the state into the new millennium. Because the greatest New Jersey bands of the last few decades have worked in an idiom laid down by the quartet that made art from the Garden State’s late 20th-century ability to turn anything into junk food: the Misfits. MORE »
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Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame To Give Itself The Reach-Around In New York This Fall
It’s been 25 years since The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame began enshrining rock stars, and inspiring many arguments from people who are just as conflicted about their favorite bands being snubbed by the museum’s higher-ups as they are about the idea of a museum honoring an allegedly still-vital artform. So clearly it’s time for a party! The party won’t take place in Cleveland, where the actual physical museum is located, but at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. And because the Rock Hall is devoted to embodying the idea of rock at its fullest, the American Express-sponsored shows will even have “once-in-a-lifetime VIP Benefit Packages priced from $25,000 to $100,000″! (Those funds are going toward creating a permanent endowment for the museum—or at least the cash for a move out of Cleveland.) Who could be on a bill that’s worthy of a six-figure ticket price? The full lineups after the jump. MORE »
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Bruce Springsteen May Have To Apologize To Ticketmaster
A few months ago, Bruce Springsteen and his fans were in a tizzy when the best seats for a slew of hometown shows at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, N.J., showed up on ticket brokers’ sites before they were even available to the public. “Scandal!” cried the fans. “Say you’re sorry!” blogged The Boss. But months later, after the hue and cry died down, the Newark Star-Ledger got to the bottom of just how tickets for the show were disbursed… and as it turned out, most of the asses in the Izod Center’s cushiest seats had been put there by the promoters, Springsteen’s record company, and Bruce and his band. Are you shocked? (I’m not, honestly. But all those years of going to journalist/blogger/flack/employee-packed shows in the greater NYC area have probably jaded me.) The Star-Ledger breaks down the numbers after the jump. MORE »
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Virginia’s Democratic Gubernatorial Nominee Was Born To Run
A brief list of musical artists who Creigh Deeds, the surprising victor in yesterday’s Democratic primary for the Virginia governor’s race, rode to victory according to his Twitter account: MORE »
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Ticketmaster’s Legal-Scalping Site Continues To Give Bruce Springsteen Fans Headaches
Thanks to a glitch, Ticketmaster’s “secondary ticketing” site TicketsNow–which allows those people who have bought tickets to events to resell them at a premium–oversold certain seating sections for this coming Monday’s Bruce Springsteen show in Washington, D.C. As it turned out, the tickets that were oversold were in the good areas of the Verizon Center, and not the nosebleed seats. So basically, a bunch of E Street fans who paid as much as three times face value for a seat close to the stage at the city’s Verizon Center were actually buying the illusion of getting to see the Boss up close. Nice work, guys! MORE »
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Bruce Springsteen To Get Wrestled To The Ground By “Twilight” Fans
In an effort to perhaps show the world that it is Really For Real Serious About Bringing Music Back To Its Programming This Time Around, MTV has revived the Movie Awards category that honors the Best Song From A Movie. The category–last seen in 1999, and perhaps retired because Aerosmith’s wretched foray into Diane Warren territory “I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing” was the winner–has four nominees this year, including one who’s way out of MTV’s target demo. The envelope before the envelope, please: MORE »
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Working On A Dream Springsteen Playlist
Bruce Springsteen and Co. just completed two hometown rehearsal shows, and some superfans are grumbling about setlist selection. It’s not that the shows are bad; it’s that the setlists are rather stale. The Boss has a huge catalog with tons of deep cuts, and he’s been sticking to the same jams for a while now. As Bruce aficionado Ben Lazar tells Bruce via blog post: “You’ve just added some new songs to a pre-existing framework.” Lazar has come up with his dream setlist, including notes about what key in which Springsteen should sing certain songs. I thought I was a pretty serious fan, but it turns out I have a lot to learn. Lazar’s dream playlist and detailed set notes after the jump. MORE »
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Is Bruce Springsteen The Jack Johnson Of 2009?
The Glastonbury Festival, Britain’s annual mud-covered extravaganza, has announced its first headliner for its already-sold-out 2009 edition, and it is… Bruce Springsteen. The Boss, who headlined the Super Bowl and is also going to be atop the bill at Bonnaroo, is going to headline the second day of the three-day festival, with fellow elder statesmen Blur and Neil Young rumored to headline the other two days. Glasto organizer Emily Eavis said that the Springsteen booking was “the icing on the cake of this year’s bill, which I’m sure will take everyone’s breath away when we announce the full details.” Hey, don’t put the icing before the cake, OK? MORE »
Bruce Springsteen, Blogger
Bruce Springsteen published a journal (oh, c’mon, Bruce, just call it a blog) about his Super Bowl experience on his official Web site, and it wasn’t just a “thanks to all the fans we love you!!1one” post (although there was certainly some fan appreciation within)—it was a pretty great you-are-in-Bruce’s-mind tale, one full of digressions and backstory even a little bit of doubt. A few choice bits after the jump. MORE »
