Nigh on six years since the end of The River Tour 2016-17, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band finally returned to the stage in February as they embarked on their 2023 International Tour. It was a tour marred for many by the dynamic pricing fiasco that some fans felt shut them out from attending … Continue reading A Guide to Springsteen and the E Street Band’s 2023 International Tour [Part 2]
Forty-eight hours after rocking the Wells Fargo Center on their return to the stage following illness, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band stepped into the Bryce Jordan Center on Penn State’s University Park campus for a second successive show in Pennsylvania. Having just played one of the tour’s stand out shows in front of … Continue reading Bruce Springsteen Live Downloads Review: March 18th, 2023 – State College, PA – Bryce Jordan Center
As the eighth year of Bruce Springsteen’s Live Archive Series comes to an end and focus shifts to his and the E Street Band’s long anticipated 2023 International Tour, we can look back on the year 2022 as another very good one for the Live Series project. Fourteen shows were released over the last twelve … Continue reading Springsteen’s Archive Series: The possibilities for 2023 (and the Series’ Top 10 songs of 2022)
Bruce Springsteen’s 2006 exploration of American folk, gospel and blues music remains a polarising one. Fans who loved it then still can’t get enough now; fans who weren’t enamoured at the time continue to resent it, with their disdain for this music arguably greater than their disdain for “Outlaw Pete.” As someone who became a … Continue reading New from the Springsteen archive: October 10th, 2006 – Rome, IT – Palalottomatica
Back on its First Friday schedule (for how long, only the powers that be know), the sixtieth concert released in Bruce Springsteen's Live Archive Series has arrived at a time when we all need it most. A lot has happened in the world since my last Springsteen write-up, and whether you're stuck at home courtesy … Continue reading New from the Springsteen archive: April 28th, 2008 – Greensboro, NC – Greensboro Coliseum
It was only in June when we last had a delay in the Archive Series, but while that was a decision made out of respect to very important socio-political matters and the protests and demonstrations around America that arose from them, the delay this month was caused by something Nugs and Bruce Inc. couldn't make … Continue reading New from the Springsteen archive: November 11th, 2006 – London, UK – Wembley Arena
Back in 2014, Bruce Springsteen okayed the idea for his live shows performed over the years to be released, something that fans had been clamouring for him to do for a long time. Live releases had been a rarity for Springsteen, with less than twenty live performances officially released between 1986 and 2013. Since the … Continue reading A Guide to Springsteen’s Archive Series [Part 3]
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