It’s been 67 years and counting for the prestigious Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island. Executive Producer Jay Sweet and host Devon Gilfillian have been responsible for the latest twist in the fest’s long-standing cultural DNA, “Sea to Shining Sea,” an interview segment. They interviewed Bruce Springsteen recently and you can watch the entire spot here.

A documentary film about the scandalous Sunset Marquis Hotel, If These Walls Could Rock, opens August 14. For a time, it was Rock Star Central, filled with drugs, sex and rock’n’roll by the biggest names in the business:  Bruce, Little Steven, Sheryl Crow, Morrissey, Ringo, Billy Bob Thornton, Slash, Dave Grohl, Cyndi Lauper, Roger Daltrey, Julian Lennon, John Oates, Nile Rodgers, Darius Rucker, Gene Simmons, Nancy Wilson and many more.

Bruce Springsteen: Finding America In Song

It’s complete. It’s beautiful. The long-talked about brand new home of the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music on the campus of Monmouth University in West Long Branch has finally opened to the public. The immersive exhibits are just the start.

Monmouth University’s Pollak Theatre in West Long Branch will be the site when the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music presents “America 250: A Jersey Shore Celebration of the Nation’s Music Heritage” with Williams Honor, original E Streeter Vini Lopez, Pat Roddy, Jackson Pines, Pat Guadagno, Richie Blackwell and others on May 29. It is the first of a series of events leading up to the June 7 Grand Opening of the Center’s new building.

“We are bringing hope over fear, democracy over authoritarianism, the rule of law over lawlessness, ethics over unbridled corruption, unity over division, and peace over war.” – Bruce Springsteen

The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music opens its new digs June 7 on the campus of Monmouth University in Long Branch. The massive 32,000 square foot structure includes exhibition galleries, research archives, immersive interactive experiences and a performance theater.

Singer-Songwriter Shane MacGowan [1957-2023] was the lead singer of Great Britain’s Celtic Punk Pogues. He wrote lyrics on the Irish immigrant experience and pulled no punches. Decades of booze and drugs killed him at 65. On November 13, 20^th Century Paddy: The Songs of Shane MacGowan will be released with Pogues interpretations from Tom Waits, Steve Earle, The High Kings, Hozier & Jessie Buckley, Johnny Depp & Imelda May, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Dropkick Murphys, Glen Hansard, The Libertines, David Gray, Primal Scream, Kate Moss, Damien Dempsey, Moya Brennan, Amble, Camille O’Sullivan, Cronin, Garron Noone, Johnny Mac & the Faithful, Liam Ó Maonlaí, Lisa Moorish & Another Day, Lisa O’Neill, LYRA, Madra Salach, Mundy, Picture This, Pinch of Snuff, The Murder Capital, Bruce Springsteen and The Pogues themselves. Half of its royalties will benefit the Dublin Simon Community, an Irish homelessness organization.

 "We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times, but do not despair — the cavalry is coming! Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be taking the stage this spring from Minneapolis to California to Texas to Washington, D.C. for the Land of Hope And Dreams American Tour. We will be rocking your town in celebration and in defense of America — American democracy, American freedom, our American Constitution and our sacred American dream — all of which are under attack by our wannabe king and his rogue government in Washington, D.C. Everyone, regardless of where you stand or what you believe in, is welcome — so come on out and join the United Free Republic of E Street Nation for an American spring of Rock 'n' Rebellion! I’ll see you there!"—Bruce Springsteen

No need for any of my words here.

In October of 1975, Bruce Springsteen became the first rock star in history to simultaneously land on the covers of Time and Newsweek magazines. Fifty years later, he’s back on the cover of the current Time.

He’s usually so humorous. His “People Against The Abuse Of Acronyms” graced our “Visual Sound” section last April, followed by “Underwater Basket Weaving” in October. But his latest work takes a deeper turn: a new song called “Deliver Me From Nowhere,” inspired by Springsteen’s 1982 depression and the friendship with Jon Landau that helped him through. (Scott Cooper’s film of the same name comes out this month.)

The new Bruce film, Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White, is almost here and its protagonist has been duly promoting it. At a recent advance screening of the film at the prestigious Telluride Film Festival in Colorado, Bruce sat and answered questions. As the credits rolled at film’s end, the audience gave it a standing ovation.

On October 17, one week before the Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere feature film hits theaters Oct. 24, Sony Music will release Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition with previously unreleased material, including a full-length Blu-Ray concert, and a raw stripped-down “Born In The USA” from the Electric Nebraska sessions.

A special concert this Wednesday, Sept. 3, has been added to the various celebrations put on by the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music (BSACAM) to honor the 50^th Anniversary of Born To Run, the album that made Bruce a star.

The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center For American Music (BSACAM) on the campus of Monmouth University in West Long Branch will hold a four-day symposium in celebration of the album that made Bruce a star. The events will be held September 4, 5, 6 and 7 with a conference, an art exhibit, and a screening of previously-unreleased footage shot during the making of the album in 1975.

The highly-anticipated Bruce movie—Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere—is set to open in theaters October 24. The trailer has just been released (see it here).

One of the seven never-before-heard Bruce albums coming in that big beautiful box we’ve been telling you about—Tracks II: The Lost Albums (Sony Music)—due June 27 is Twilight Hours, his homage to the Great American Songbook.

June 27 can’t come fast enough. That’s the date seven complete never-before-heard Springsteen albums will be released in one big beautiful box, Tracks II. One of the albums, Inyo, is particularly fascinating as it contains his 1990s collaborations with a host of Mariachi Musicians.

Now everyone can hear what went down on the first night of the Euro Springsteen tour May 14 in Manchester England as a new EP has been released digitally as Land Of Hope & Dreams. Besides the dramatic title tune, The E Street Band revs up “Long Walk Home,” “My City Of Ruins” and, most profoundly, a unique and lump-in-your-throat cover of “Chimes Of Freedom,” a song just as applicable now as when Dylan wrote it 61 years ago in 1964.