Bruce Springsteen

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Earlier today, Brandon Weigel discussed witnessing a cathartic Bruce Springsteen show Wednesday night and how it was recast the next day when it was announced the Prince had died. Below, two City Paper staffers, Lisa Snowden-Mccray and Brandon Soderberg...

His forearm held above his eyes to shield the lights, Bruce Springsteen read a sign in the crowd held aloft by a young couple. He read part of it to the crowd, though it was a bit hard to make out. Something about an engagement. "Come on up," he invited....

Forty-three years after his debut album, Bruce Springsteen has more than earned his bona fides as a songwriter for the working man—many of his most iconic songs are populated by blue collar people trying to break out of their desperate situations....

When Bruce Springsteen played the Royal Farms Arena in 2009, it was the first time The Boss and his mighty E Street Band had stopped in Baltimore in roughly three decades. Here's City Paper's review of that 2009 concert (and here's one I wrote for the old...

Dec. 19 When you’re a dopey little kid, you just kind of assume anything that sounds serious or fancy or has a choir or bells in it has to be some kind of timeless Christmas music (I used to think Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born To Run’ was a...

So if the Johns Hopkins University/Hospital system gives you the howling fantods—or even if it doesn't—you might learn something you didn't know in this lengthy catalog of the institution’s misdeeds published by Zachary Gallant in The Leveller. It's all...

Paterson, New Jersey rapper Fetty Wap's hit song 'Trap Queen' is inescapable, and in a time when it is increasingly hard for hip-hop that makes little to no concessions to the pop or dance charts to blow up, it is a curious hit. It helps that it's...

My son Watson is a Brian Regan superfan. "Mom, Brian Regan is just about the best comedian there ever was," he informed me on the way to school the other morning. Because he's 11, he doesn't have that much experience with comedians. Most "work blue," i.e....

When my white grandmother was a child growing up in Highlandtown, not far from the Creative Alliance, which is currently exhibiting Paul Rucker’s “REWIND,” a devastating show about violence, race, and power in the United States, she would go to a nearby...

The Shindig Music Festival, which returns to Baltimore for its second go-round Saturday, takes a different approach to booking than most rock fests. Instead of spreading its bets around, putting chips on as many subgenres as it can to pull in as many...

In March, when I drove from Austin to Baltimore, I visited Oklahoma for the first time. Even compared to North Texas, the Oklahoma landscape seemed empty of vegetation and buildings. The huge sky over the brown-grass hills seemed to contain little but...

Titus Andronicus has been in the music press a lot in the last few years. Critics and fans hail the band's albums, on which they play sweaty-basement-show ranters with as much confidence as emotionally revealing, Springsteen-tinged indie rock. It's a...

ARIES (March 21-April 19) The battles you've been waging these last 10 months have been worthy of you. They've tested your mettle and grown your courage. But I suspect that your relationship with these battles is due for a shift. In the future they may...

Kurt Vile's music has that rare ability to sound simultaneously familiar and unique to its own time and place. The spacey guitars and conversational lyrics give off the air of a psychedelic singer-songwriter, but they are uniquely Vile. Before Vile and...

Ken Casey, the singer and bassist for the Dropkick Murphys, was examining the tattoos covering much of his body one day last year when he realized that they formed a pictorial autobiography. And similar memoirs could be found in the inkings on his...

On Dec. 20 Friends Records will put out a limited 7-inch. The A-side features Oxes with Will Oldham and Shellac's Bob Weston covering Sheryl Crow's '90s heartland-rock hit, "Strong Enough." The B-side is Bruce Springsteen's "I'm On Fire" performed by...