Bruce Springsteen's memoirs announced, sample chapters include: Blood on the Turnpike, Human Town, Lucky Touch, Hear Those Tires SQUEAL, Chuck Berry Stole All My Riffs (So I Stole Some Song Titles), Prince Almost Stole My Mojo, Hitchhiking to We Are the World, Leftover Songs for Breakfast, Car Parts … [Read more...]
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FROM SPRINGSTEEN’S EUGAGOLIE
Image by AWKWORDrap via Flickr...SO LADIES AND GENTLEMAN... ALWAYS LAST, BUT NEVER LEAST. LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE MASTER OF DISASTER, the BIG KAHUNA, the MAN WITH A PHD IN SAXUAL HEALING, the DUKE OF PADUCAH, the KING OF THE WORLD, LOOK OUT OBAMA! THE NEXT BLACK PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES EVEN … [Read more...]
Top Ten Springsteen Super Bowl Requests
Sarah Darling (Tina Fey remix) Murder Incorporated (all hail: subprime credit crisis) Born in the USA (update the quagmire) 'Dad's Gonna Kill Me (Richard Thompson cover) Detroit medley (for "Devil With the Blue Dress") Farmer John (Premiers, Neil Young cover) Double Shot of My Baby's Love (Swingin' … [Read more...]
Springsteen in Hartford
Notes on opening night of Bruce Springsteen's MAGIC TOUR with the E Street Band Hartford Civic Center, Connecticut October 2, 2007 (Listen today, Thursday 10/4, for the WBUR story, podcast archived this afternoon.) LEAD: Bruce Springsteen, a spry 58 years young, proved once again that rock'n'roll … [Read more...]
THE JOHN KERRY OF ROCK: Bruce Springsteen
S F/J says it better than I'm inspired to. Ghost of Tom Joad Part DEUX (with a bullet). NEBRASKA works better as metaphorical Bush critique than the title song. Although, word from California is that star-studded shows are stunning, including solo piano "Incident on 57th Street"… 2005 LIST (IN … [Read more...]
Bruce Springsteen on VH1’s Storytellers
Bruce Springsteen on VH1's Storytellers … [Read more...]
Jumpin’ January Jehovahs: Stuff Like This
River, Season 1 (BBC1/Netflix) As Detective John River, Stellan Skarsgård, agony in a trenchcoat, investigates his partner Stevie's murder. Bookended by the Tina Charles's 1976 No. 1 (UK) "I Love to Love (But My Baby Just Loves to Dance)," a pure a jolt of disco joy, the song seems to leak straight … [Read more...]
Fever: How Rock Transforms Gender
Now a feature-length ebook available from fine digital outlets everywhere… (Apple iTunes Store, Amazon) Read a sample chapter here: Chapter Six - Bruce Springsteen's "Walk Like a Man" Customized Spotify playlist … [Read more...]
The Counselor, Cormac McCarthy
I got sucked into by the cast too, enjoying Cameron Diaz's wicked villain and marveling at the word "goner" stenciled on Penelope Cruz's forehead from the opening pillow talk with Fassbender. But trashy seems too kind for this somber meditation on decapitation, with all the slow dipping mechanisms … [Read more...]
PARLOR GAME: FIVE FAVORITE CONCERTS
Off My Rocker, by Kenny Weissberg [Weissberg wrote a Friday column called "Hot Licks & Rhetoric" for the Boulder Daily Camera that I devoured while growing up in Colorado. He also hosted Bill Murray on a Sunday night KCRW radio show one night just a Murray started to break on SNL. We recently … [Read more...]
GROWIN’ UP
Shame about David Brooks's out-of-touch Op-Ed column, but double-shame on David Remnick for his unctuous, interminable New Yorker profile. Together they spawned a cottage industry of dissent: Robert Christgau hailed the Scandinavian show he caught as "transcendent": "One problem with that Madison … [Read more...]
Our Mr. Brooks Born to Run — Esquire
David Brooks Bruce Springsteen Column - Our Mr. Brooks Was Born to Run - Esquire. Related articles We get it, grandpa, you're hip to Springsteen David Brooks Flies to Europe to Bash Cosmopolitanism Bruce Springsteen, The Exhibit: Born To Run Live Batch of … [Read more...]
REMEMBERING CLARENCE CLEMONS
Image via WikipediaNational Public Radio's On Point show with Tom Ashbrook, devoted to Springsteen's Big Man, Clarence Clemons. Thursday, June 23, 2011. Related articlesPhoto Profile: Clarence Clemons (wzlx.radio.com)New Jersey Will Fly Flags At Half-Mast For Clarence Clemons … [Read more...]
BOOKS
FEVER (Picador, 2005) surveys rock's gender styles through key figures like Elvis Presley, Tina Turner, Girl Groups, Smokey Robinson, Pete Townshend, Rosanne Cash, Joni Mitchell, Chrissie Hynde, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, and rock couples from Sonny and Cher through Kurt Cobain and Courtney … [Read more...]
This Machine Kills Fascists
or, Guthrie Wrote a Column for the Daily Worker Blacks far outclassed whites aesthetically yesterday, typically. At least MOST whites on that stage realized it as it was happening (perhaps not Bono, or Bon Jovi). My kids made two piercing requests: "Long Walk Home" by Bruce, and "We Shall Overcome" … [Read more...]