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Exclusive Interview: Stevie Van Zandt’s TeachRock Milestone
Stevie Van Zandt called to personally tell us about October 17 at the Count Basie Center for Performing Arts in Red Bank. For it is on that day that the inaugural TeachRock Teachers Hall of Fame Celebration will be hosted by actor-writer Pete Davidson in honor of educators nationwide. Earlier that day, Van Zandt will be inducted into the Count Basie Center Walk Of Fame. The phone rings. It’s Stevie.
Little Steven & Bruce Add Their Voices To New Doc
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.
Stevie Van Zandt Puts On A September 15 Sea. Hear. Now. After-Party
Leave it to Little Steven to put on one of the most anticipated after-parties of the decade. After the two-day Sea. Hear. Now. music festival starring Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, “Asbury Park A Go-Go” at Asbury Lanes as presented by “Little Steven’s Underground Garage: Maximum Rock and Soul!” will rage on for four hours starting at 10:00 p.m.