Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band appear on the season finale of Saturday Night Live this week, to promote the release of the 35th anniversary box set of The River, and Springsteen will also be joining Jimmy Fallon on the couch later this evening on The Tonight Show, Mainstream network television appearances were not something Bruce…


“The Ties That Bind: The River Collection”: Springsteen Opens The Vaults
It took Bruce Springsteen 14 months to make Born To Run. It took him 10 months to make Darkness On The Edge of Town, and that was without the year-long break in the middle where he was trapped in a lawsuit and wasn’t allowed to record a new record. This is why Springsteen deliberately tried…

Springsteen’s Legendary 1980 Tempe Arizona Show Finally Surfaces On Video
When I was in high school, there used to be these things called “rock and roll conventions.” They were mostly glorified swap meets, with ballrooms filled with card tables supporting crates and boxes of records and bootlegs and posters and record company promotional items. But the conventions went further because they had video rooms – smaller conference…