The story goes that Bruce didn’t even want to include “No Surrender” on 1984’s Born In The USA but did so at the insistence of Stevie Van Zandt. It’s since become a concert staple, one of the most beloved songs in the Bruce catalog. It’s been covered 19 times by artists from all around the world but not like the one-named singer-songwriter Rowe from Hopewell in Mercer County.

Written and Directed by Scott Cooper from last year’s book—Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making Of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska—by Warren Zanes, principal shooting for the much-anticipated 2025 Bruce bio-pic started last month in New York and three sites in The Garden State:  Bayonne, Rockaway (Morris County) and next month from the ninth to the 13^th in Asbury Park.

The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music (BSACAM) plus Stevie Van Zandt’s TeachRock have announced a collaboration with Canada’s National Music Centre (NMC; see video here), based in Calgary (the first such NMC partnership outside Canada). Housed within the 160,000 square-foot Studio Bell, the NMC will partner with the two American entities for what is being called “a cross-border cultural exchange.”

A Bruce Springsteen interview special will air in prime-time on ABC-TV Sunday, October 20. “Backstage and Backstreets” will be seen at 10:00 p.m. EST with Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos. The show is part of a promotional push for Bruce’s upcoming Hulu and Disney+ “Road Diary” documentary to debut October 25.

Bruce Springsteen has joined Eminem, Streisand, John Legend, Cardi B, Kesha and Taylor Swift in  endorsing Harris/Walz in the 2024 presidential election. Watch as he delineated his reasons why in this video.

The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music (BSACAM) has announced September 28 as the date for a special evening with Grammy Award-winning film editor/director Thom Zimny in celebration of Bruce’s 75^th birthday. The 7:30 p.m. event will be held in Pollak Theatre on the campus of Monmouth University in West Long Branch.

The Bear playing The Boss? It certainly looks that way. Deliver Me From Nowhere will be a cinematic adaptation of last year’s Warren Zanes book of the same name, sub-titled The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska.

It’s already sold-out. The sixth annual Sea. Hear. Now. festival lineup for all three stages has been announced for September 14 and 15 on the beach in Asbury Park and in that town’s Bradley Park venue.

Mark Knopfler’s charity single “Going Home (Theme From Local Hero)” features 60 rock stars in support of Teen Cancer America and England’s Teenage Cancer Trust. It is one of the most overpowering lineups of major stars ever assembled for one cause with members of The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Dire Straits, The Who, Pink Floyd, Queen, Black Sabbath, Rush, Guns N’Roses, Eagles and many more.

On the precipice of another international tour, Bruce Springsteen went on SiriusXM’s E Street Radio and had the following to say with host Jim Rotolo…

The Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band tour started up again at the Footprint Center in Phoenix Arizona on March 19. It was the first show since last September when the announcement came of his ulcer. The band will be in San Francisco tonight and Sunday before Inglewood California April 4 & 7, Connecticut April 12, Albany April 15, Syracuse April 18 and Columbus Ohio April 21 before heading abroad.

Sea Hear Now, New Jersey’s largest homegrown rock festival, is set for September 14 and 15 with shows in Asbury Park and Bradley Beach. Over 25 bands will strut their stuff like last year when Foo Fighters, The Killers, Weezer, The Beach Boys and Sheryl Crow performed. This year Noah Kahan headlines Saturday and some rock group called Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band headlines Sunday.

They came out in full force to honor Jon Bon Jovi at the Los Angeles Convention Center on February 2 as the 2024 Music Cares Person of the Year: Paul McCartney, Desmond Child, Rita Wilson, Nile Rodgers, Nancy Pelosi, Larkin Poe, Wolfgang Van Halen, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen and others.

On Bruce Springsteen’s Instagram account, he wrote the following upon the passing of his 98-year old mom.

Jessica Springsteen took home the Silver Medal in Team Jumping for the United States Equestrian Team (USET) in the last Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo. This year’s events will take place in Paris at the Gardens of the Palace of Versailles. The United States Equestrian Team hosted a sold-out benefit at Five Rings Farm in Wellington Florida last Friday, January 19, to “raise critical funds to support the U.S. equestrian teams that are headed for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, France,” according to a USET press release.

The subtle and haunting groove of Bruce Springsteen’s “Addicted to Romance” was one of the six songs nominated for a 2024 Golden Globe award in the category of “Best Original Song Motion Picture.”

The latest in Springsteen’s series of shows being packaged for CD consumption continues with the release of ‘Continental Airlines Arena East Rutherford N.J. July 15 1999.’ It was a joyous night. A reunion of America’s greatest band.

Los Angeles Singer-Songwriter Cole Gallagher has recorded a cover version of perhaps Springsteen’s least known song. It’s on his new ‘The Confluence’ EP. The song, “Sugarland,” was recorded by the E Street Band in ’83. It had a shot to be included on ‘84’s ‘Born In The USA’ but didn’t make the cut.

It happened November 30 when Darlene Love performed her annual “Love For The Holidays” show at Town Hall in New York City. Out came Bruce with a special mission: to present the legendary singer with a platinum album for sales in excess of one million copies for the 1963 pioneering ‘A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector’ which introduced her “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).”

Bruce Springsteen has been nominated for a Grammy Award for the 51st time. (He’s won 20.) His album ‘Only The Strong Survive’ will compete as “Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album” against ‘Sondheim Unplugged (The NYC Sessions)’ by Various Artists, ‘Holidays Around The World’ by Pentatonix, ‘Bewitched’ by Lauley, ‘Pieces Of Treasure’ by Rickie Lee Jones and ‘To Steve With Love: Liz Calloway Celebrates Sondheim.’