Bruce Springsteen

The 10 Best Things I Heard in 2012

10 Best Things I Heard in 2012

So long, 2012. You were a weird, uncomfortable, and scary year. You were also wonderful, at times so unbearably wonderful that I thought my brain was going to explode as I struggled to wrap my head around your pure, blindingly bright joy. You had all the things a monumental year should: elections, ... More >>

Top Five Phoenix Music Stories of the Week

The news waits for no one -- at least that's what we read somewhere -- so it's perfectly understandable that you, the reader, might have missed out on a musical tidbit, breaking news about your favorite venue, or one of our rants. So enjoy this digest-style sampling of some of our biggest stories f ... More >>

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Jobing.com Arena, 12/6/12

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band @ Jobing.com Arena|12/6/12Who is Bruce Springsteen anyway? The street rat poet singing about characters straight out of West Side Story? The balladeer casting American youth in B movie glory, Roy Orbison grandeur, and fleets of fast cars? The protest singer, ... More >>

Seven Collaborations Mick Jagger, Arcade Fire, and Foo Fighters Could Take a Hint From

Saturday Night Live is ending its 37th season with a bang. Last week, classic alum Will Ferrell hosted the show, reprising his parody of George W. Bush, and the 100th SNL Digital Short was aired. Things look to get even bang-ier with this Saturday's season finale, featuring Mick Jagger taking the ... More >>

SXSW: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Rock ACL Live

Editor's note: We're happy to bring you a special guest post by Houston Press/Rocks Off blogger Craig Hlavaty, who's hanging tough at SXSW. Bruce Springsteen's Thursday started with a keynote speech in one of the big ballrooms at the Austin Convention Center, and ended with a mythic three-hour set ... More >>

New Bruce Springsteen Album Due March 6; Listen to New Single Now

Bruce Springsteen, "We Take Care of Our Own"​Years and years of rock 'n' roll writers repeating it doesn't make it untrue: Bruce Springsteen's 1984 song "Born in the U.S.A." might be one of the most misunderstood tunes in pop history. Though lyrically elegiac, the song's pumping synths and t ... More >>

Ben Folds at Marquee Theatre, 7/18/11

Kholood Eid​ Ben Folds Marquee Theatre Monday, July 18, 2011 Ben Folds has been writing piano rock oscillating between sardonic humor and commentary on the human condition since his beginnings with Ben Folds Five. Along the way, he's been cast as many things -- a father, a joker, a pis ... More >>

Slam Dunk @ Trunk Space

Dropkick Murpheys

How Bazaar

Ethnic food in the house

Creed Saves a Boy From a Wolf Pack

​A boy saved himself from a pack of wolves with a little help from Creed on Thursday, according to NME.Thirteen-year-old Norwegian student Walter Eikrem came across a pack of wolves on his way home from school. He knew not to run away from the wolves, so he quickly became resourceful and attempted ... More >>

New Album From the Strokes on Its Way to Being Complete

​The Strokes have finally finished a long awaited album, according to SPIN.While the mixing and mastering still has yet to be done, the recording process itself has been completed.After working out their differences and deciding to go forth with making a new album, they worked with Beck and White ... More >>

With The Monitor, Titus Andronicus Become Masters of Their Own Domain

The Gaslight Anthem at Marquee Theatre on 7/20/2010

​You should be proud, New Jersey. Your garden state is more than reality TV show guidos and guidettes, big hair, fist-pumping and GTL (gym, tan, laundry). You guys know how to rock. New Jersey has spawned legendary rock bands like Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen.Oh, and the Gaslight Anthem Heavily ... More >>

World Cup Theme by Shakira Plagiarized?

While Americans don't take to football ("soccer" in our land) the way the rest of the world does, there's something special about the World Cup. Something so special, that even musicians can't help put take part in all the excitement. While R. Kelly wrote an official theme for the global quadrennial ... More >>

Year in Music: The Most Unintentionally Hilarious Lyrics of 2009

GZA Heads to Gammage Auditorium for “Civil Disobedience WU”

The Gaslight Anthem

The Gaslight Anthem

Rihanna and Chris Brown's Hotel Tryst, Jarvis Cocker and Russel Brand Collaborate, Jackson's Mother Gets Custody

State Press: YACHT Not A Standout Idolator: "Weird Al" Yankovic Makes An Icky Thump In Honor Of Charles Nelson Reilly NME: Bruce Springsteen To Perform 'Born To Run' Album In Its Entirety NME: P Diddy Moshes His Way Through Arctic Monkeys' Intimate New York Gig NME: Rihanna and Chris Brown Reunite f ... More >>

Michael Jackson Samples In Hip-Hop, Spin Misnames Velvet Underground Song, Reznor Disses Cornell Again

So Much Silence: A few hip-hop tracks that sampled Michael Jackson Spin: Watch: Beck Covers Velvet Underground's "Waiting For My Man" [sic] Seriously, Spin, you don't know the name of that song? Idolator: The Mets Are Asking Everyone To Clear Their Throats Again Pitchfork: Reznor Reveals Rejec ... More >>

M. Ward

Tempe Music Festival, Country Thunder, Bruce Springsteen and (Way) More Over the Weekend

Wait! Before you check out all the content from our weekend coverage, grab a big cup of coffee and relax. It was a big weekend and as such, there's a lot here. Take it in and enjoy it.  Tempe Music Fest 2009 This weekend Tempe Music Fest 2009 united us once again from scattered Valley citizenry t ... More >>

Bruce Springsteen Makes Everyone a Little Nostalgic at Jobing

Victor PalaganoSee more shots from the show in our Bruce Springsteen slide show. Maybe it was the bouncing beach balls that reminded me of my first concert experiences (seeing the Kokomo-era Beach Boys) or maybe it was the inclusion of a relatively obscure song by glam- ... More >>

The Big Boss Man

Bruce Springsteen

The Perfect Record for Cactus League's Opening Day

Happy opening day, Phoenix!Yes, today is the start of the baseball season. The real start, not the start they'll be celebrating in the upper Midwest next month, the one that requires parkas. It'll be 80 degrees and sunny across the Valley as the first pitch of the year will be tossed at seven ballpa ... More >>

Off The Chain: Unsexy Songs About Sex

Bruce Springsteen: killing sexiness, with or without a soul patch.My good friend Albert Ching at our sister paper in Orange County penned a real gem this week: "Seven Unsexy Songs About Sex." From Bruce Springsteen talking about anal sex with a hooker to the Liz Phair song that's more lewd than "Flo ... More >>

Just Announced: David Archuleta, Authority Zero, Modest Mouse, Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen as a young, and somewhat relevant singer-songwriter.Most of this week's big announcements were already up here earlier this week when they broke -- Modest Mouse, Bruce Springsteen -- but we do have a few surprises on the next page. Like David Archuleta, the American Idol cont ... More >>

Bruce Springsteen Coming to Jobing.com Arena on April 3

Mr. "Born to Run" himself, Bruce Springsteen. Next week is shaping up to be pretty "boss" for fans of Bruce Springsteen (awkward pun very much intended). The Grammy/Oscar/Golden Globe-winning rock 'n' roll legend will be performing during halftime of Super Bowl XLIII on Sunday, and tickets for his ... More >>

Springsteen at the Super Bowl? Ugh. Why Not Kanye?

It Came From YouTube: Classic concerts at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Wensday

Torch Rock
(Desert Dreams Records)

The Killers

Unusual suspects

Bruce Springsteen

The earnestness of being important

The Hold Steady

Bossy format

The Rules

Musical taste reveals more than you think

The Arcade Fire

Vote for Change Tour

Activism, schmactivism: where's the real rock?

Beastie Boys

To the 5 Boroughs
(Capitol)

Bruce Springsteen

The Rising (Columbia)

Various Artists

Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska (Sub Pop)

Instrumental Asylum

Swingin' Sting? Bluegrass Bruce? Rhapsodic R.E.M.? You'll do a double take now that CMH Records has given your '80s favorites a second look.

Boss Hogs

Soul Crusaders

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's reunion tour proves that there's still magic in the night

Thunder Roadwork

Despite some glaring omissions, Tracks cuts an intriguing parallel path through Springsteen's career

Recordings

Steinboss

Bruce Springsteen takes up where The Grapes of Wrath left off

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