Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band announce 17 additional dates in Europe for the 2013 leg of the Wrecking Ball World Tour. In addition, Bruce & The E Street Band’s headlining performance at Rock In Rio 2013 has already been announced and other tour dates will be announced shortly. To date, the Wrecking Ball World Tour has stopped in 17 countries for over 80 shows including several of the longest performances of Springsteen’s career, earning him and the band universal acclaim, so don’t miss your chance to see Bruce & The E Street Band in 2013! We’ve also included the availability date and a ticket link. New 2013 Wrecking Ball World Tour Dates May 26 – Munich,...

  Today’s Cool Album of the Day (#772 in the Series) is King Cannons, The Brightest Light (Capitol) King Cannons are a hardworking band, and they want you to know it. They have fought poverty and hardship every day of their existence to be together. Their songs are full of cliché and nostalgia, being almost exclusively about being flat broke, escaping the oppressive factory dust, and the joys of finding solace in rock ‘n’ roll and the open road. They aren’t exactly original in style or substance, stealing from the slicked-back greaser ’50s style of American rock, to the angry punk-with-a-heart teachings of ’70s Joe Strummer, the anthemic bombast and big drums of ’80s Springsteen, with a sprinkling of...

  Today’s Cool Album of the Day (#745 in the Series) is Bruce Springsteen, Born in the USA At the start of 1984, with a new album imminent, Bruce Springsteen’s longtime fans must have been curious, maybe even anxious, about which direction he was going to take. His last effort, 1982′s superb “Nebraska” had been a bit of a departure, consisting as it did of a fairly sombre, and stark, suite of mainly downbeat songs. Bruce had been given artistic freedom to do his own thing on that release and he delivered a majestic masterpiece which has stood the test of time and remains, for many (myself included), his best album to date. This time around though both fans...

  I’ve read some reports that this very well could have been the longest show of Bruce’s career. I don’t have those facts in front of me so we’re not going to make that statement.  We’ll leave the statement making to The Boss himself as he did just that tonight in Helsinki, Finland as he and the E-Street band ended the European leg of the Wrecking Ball Tour. Was this a good bye to Europe? Was he saying this is it to his fans overseas? No, not a chance in my opinion. It was just a nice party before they take a two week vacation before the band takes the stage once again in Boston. 33 songs in all,...

        Like Frank Zappa once said “You Want Some More Well Here’s Some More!” Bruce Springsteen has added 15 more dates to his “Wrecking Ball” tour. We’re not sure if this is the end of the tour or not. I would not be surprised if he adds more. This does take us close to winter here in the Northern Hemisphere so maybe he’ll head south. Additional Springsteen Tour Dates 10/19 Ottawa, ON – Scotiabank Place 10/21 Hamilton, ON – Copps Coliseum 10/23 Charlottesville, VA – John Paul Jones Arena 10/25 Hartford, CT – XL Center 11/1 State College, PA – Bryce Jordan Center 11/3 Louisville, KY – KFC Yum! Center 11/11 St. Paul, MN – Xcel Energy Center...

  Today’s Cool Album of the Day (#651 in the Series) is Bruce Springsteen, Wrecking Ball The Boss is back and he’s an angry man! I’ll be honest, I never thought I’d fully enjoy a new Springsteen album again. Much as I love the man and his music, recent efforts have left me fairly underwhelmed. But come on, it’s Bruce! He’s never going to entirely let me down and both Magic and Working on a Dream certainly have their moments. Some fine songs between them but in terms of putting out an album that was a great listen all the way through, well, I thought it wasn’t going to happen anytime soon. Which just shows how much I know…………..this...

  Once of the most anticipated tours of 2012 opened tonight as Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band took the stage at the Apollo Theater in New York City.  This was the first tour without long time friend and sax player Clarence Clemons who passed away last year.  Sax duties for this tour are being handled by Clarence’s nephew Jake Clemons and also Eddie Manion. They are part of a five piece horn section. (see pic at left) He did acknowledge the passing of both Clarence and long time organist Danny Federici early in the evening.  Just before “Badlands” he asked the crowd. “Is there anybody missing?  Well if you’re here, and we’re here, then they’re here.” The tour to support his new...

      New Bruce Springsteen Album Coming Soon. European and American Tours planned. Bruce Springsteen has announced on his site that he indeed, will be releasing a new album with the E-Street Band in 2012. There will be a European tour from  May thru July with an American Tour to follow. This is from Bruce’s website  www.brucespringsteen.net In his own words: “Well, things are starting to heat up down on E Street. A lot of you have been hearing that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be on tour in 2012. That is absolutely correct. The European dates run from the middle of May until end of July and are being announced this week. Info on...

Today’s Cool Album Of The Day (#411 in the Series and #17 in the Whale Wednesday Series) is Bruce Springsteen, Born To Run I guess there’s really only one album that would be appropriate for this Wednesday’s Whale feature, and that would be Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Born to Run. We lost “The Big Man” this past weekend, and I think this album was the recording that showcased his talents the best.  We’re presenting it as a tribute to him. I remember when I first heard of this album. I was a teenager and my girlfriend at the time had a bunch of biker brothers.  (What the heck was I thinking?)  One of them lived at home...

Today’s Cool Album of the Day (#347 in the Series) is Ray Davies, See My Friends. The pantheon of rock’s elder statesmen for me includes Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart, and Ray Davies.  There are others, but these are the AARP members that when they put out a new album, I will make it a point to check out their new work.  Of this group, Billy Joel has not put out anything new since 1993.  That’s right folks, the “Piano Man”, has not put out an album of new material in 18 years. Elton is Elton, and Paul is Paul, that is both of them can do no wrong.   They keep their respective fingers...