One of the coolest things about being a popular musician must be the ability to occasionally share the stage with your heroes. Neo-folk outfit Mumford & Sons have gotten to do that several times over the past couple of years. At the Grammy Awards last year, the quartet shared the stage with Bob Dylan for a rendition of “Maggie’s Farm,” and just a couple of days ago, at the Pinkpop Festival in Holland, the band got to share the stage […]
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bLISTerd: The 10 Best Bruce Springsteen Songs
The cool thing about having a range of people and opinions on this site is the ability to cobble together just about any pop culture list and find people who are willing to buy in. The list of staffers who contributed to this list of favorite Bruce Springsteen fans runs the gamut from diehards to folks who are on that level above “casual fan” and below “OMG OMG BROOOOOOOOOSE!”-like me. I must admit to being somewhat surprised that the list […]
Ranking the Boss: Bruce Springsteen’s Studio Albums, Part 2
Part two of our ranking of Bruce Springsteen’s studio albums.
Ranking the Boss: Bruce Springsteen’s Studio Albums, Part 1
In light of Bruce Chester Alan Arthur Springsteen’s (note: not real middle name) 17th studio album, Wrecking Ball, hitting stores this week, Popblerd has turned to one of its resident Springsteen enthusiasts, native New Jerseyan Andrew “Drew” Ratliff, to provide a definitive (read: entirely subjective) ranked retrospective of The Boss’ studio ouvre. Naturally, sacrifices had to be made. First of all, no compilations: this weeds out the exhaustive bonus disc on The Essential Bruce Springsteen, the four-disc-strong unreleased material compilation […]
Spin Cycle: Bruce Springsteen’s “Wrecking Ball”
The Boss is back with his first new album in three years. How does it hold up to his lengthy list of classics?
Bruce Springsteen announces 2012 E Street Band tour, dates
We here at Popblerd are pretty keen on the sexiest senior citizen in rock n’ roll, Bruce Springsteen. Granted, some of us more than others – I hear that man-crush Drew has on The Boss is undying and a little bit creepy. Fortunately for Boss fans, Bruce has announced another round of touring dates for 2012, in anticipation of forthcoming album Wrecking Ball. You can catch the sweat-soaked, three-hour-plus shows at any of the venues below, and in the meantime, […]
The Viewfinder: Bruce Springsteen’s “Ain’t Good Enough for You”
BROOOOOOOOCE!! I’m not as big a Springsteen fan as, say, my friend Dave , but I’m certainly fond of the guy’s music, or at least fond enough that I’m compiling a list of my most-represented artists on iTunes and he figures pretty high on the list. He’s a fantastic songwriter, and one of the most passionate (in terms of performance and politics) artists in rock and roll history. Superfans of Bruce are diehard devoted to him, and the truth of the matter is […]
The Boss Rocks Late Night TV
As someone who grew up within spitting distance from New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen’s long loomed large in my musical psyche. I’m not as gaga over the guy as many others are, but he’s a masterful songwriter and an unbelievable live performer. What impresses me more than anything is that even forty years into his career, at 61 years of age, the man performs like he has something to prove. When you’ve been doing the same thing for so long-even if […]
The Boss Meets Vampire Weekend. The Result? “I’m Goin’ Down”
I’m not quite sure why folks don’t like Vampire Weekend (who I’m going to see in concert this weekend…PSYCHED!). I think they’re great for what they are. They don’t aspire to change rock ‘n roll, they just want to make good music and have fun (and drop highbrow literary references along the way). Anyway, in a move that’s sure to receive tons of lip curls and obnoxious remarks from rock snobs the world over, Ezra Koenig and co. recently covered […]
The Boss is Gone: R.I.P. George Steinbrenner
He may have been born in Ohio, and his primary home base might have been in Florida, but George Steinbrenner was the personification of New York. Loud and blustery, but determined to win at all costs. For better or worse, Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees for nearly 40 years, set the template for the modern day sports team owner. It would be hard to imagine, say…a Mark Cuban without George Steinbrenner. That letter than the Cavaliers owner sent […]