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There are a few Bruce Springsteen albums that are essentially perfect, including Darkness on the Edge of Town, Nebraska, and ...

Summer means sunshine, the Jersey Shore, and Springsteen. With 2025 marking the 50th anniversary of “Born to Run,” one of rock’s greatest albums (arguing is futile), Peter Ames Carlin dove into the ...

Most music biopics take place in a world of alternative facts where Queen broke up before Live Aid, Elton John named himself after John Lennon, Mötley Crüe‘s Vince Neil sang Billy Squier’s “My Kinda ...

At its best, this capacious grab-bag of 83 songs, some dating back to the 1980s, yields not just good music, but songs that seem unlike anything else Springsteen has ever done. This is FRESH AIR.

Before “Born to Run,” Bruce Springsteen was in danger of being dropped by his record label. But the landmark album, released 50 years ago this month, changed all that: The New Jersey native vaulted to ...