However, Springsteen concerts, at their best, transcend the very medium they operate within. They might start out as glorified bar-band throw-downs, recapitulations of folk music tropes, heart-driven ...
Bruce Springsteen is 32. A lonely, depressed soul for the few months that are the focus of director and writer Scott Cooper’s biopic of the rock superstar. Cooper, whose script is based on Warren ...
Jimmy Guterman begins his terrific new book, "Runaway American Dream," with a telling bit of self-deprecation. "Just what the world needs; another book about Bruce Springsteen," he writes. Guterman ...
In 1982, Todd Rundgren released an album called “The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect.” In 2024, Taylor Swift released an album — albums — called “The Tortured Poets Department.” Bruce Springsteen ...
“Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” based on Bruce Springsteen’s writing and recording of his 1982 album “Nebraska,” isn’t perfect — but like the raw and stripped-down songs on that record, ...