A new 37-track boxed set released alongside a biopic tracking the making of his 1982 album underscores how sometimes a musician’s first recording is the right one. By Jon Pareles Demo-itis. That’s the ...
Fresh on the heels of Monmouth University’s week-long extravaganza celebrating the 50th anniversary of “Born to Run,” Bruce Springsteen is making headlines yet again with the authorized biopic ...
What you hear first is the hiss, the high frequency “sshhh” produced by analog magnetic tape recordings. It is less sound than the ghost of sound, an unpitched hum at the top of the audio spectrum.
To tie in with his biopic, Deliver Me from Nowhere, a new box set from Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition, is out. On the surface, it looks like another cheap cash grab from a legacy ...
There are good albums and great albums, and then there are holy records — worlds you enter as if into a dream and emerge with spirit and neurochemistry changed. Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 classic ...
Nebraska holds its own unique, almost mystical place in Bruce Springsteen lore. The three albums that preceded it as Springsteen established himself as a mature, arena-size artist all had arduous ...
In a risky career move, Springsteen turns introspective, digesting the short stories of Flannery O’Connor and Howard Zinn’s “People’s History of the United States.” The result is 1982’s “Nebraska,” ...