Fresh on the heels of Monmouth University’s week-long extravaganza celebrating the 50th anniversary of “Born to Run,” Bruce Springsteen is making headlines yet again with the authorized biopic ...
To tie in with his biopic, Deliver Me from Nowhere, a new box set from Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition, is out. On the surface, it looks like another cheap cash grab from a legacy ...
In the words of Oklahoma native Paul Harvey, now we know the rest of the story. Bruce Springsteen's 1982 lo-fi classic “Nebraska,” recorded in the bederoom of his former Lincroft home on a four-track ...
A new 37-track boxed set released alongside a biopic tracking the making of his 1982 album underscores how sometimes a musician’s first recording is the right one. By Jon Pareles Demo-itis. That’s the ...
In a risky career move, Springsteen turns introspective, digesting the short stories of Flannery O’Connor and Howard Zinn’s “People’s History of the United States.” The result is 1982’s “Nebraska,” ...
There are good albums and great albums, and then there are holy records — worlds you enter as if into a dream and emerge with spirit and neurochemistry changed. Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 classic ...
When Bruce Springsteen started recording a batch of new songs on a four-track tape machine in his New Jersey bedroom in January 1982, he wasn’t planning to release them as his next album. The acoustic ...
What you hear first is the hiss, the high frequency “sshhh” produced by analog magnetic tape recordings. It is less sound than the ghost of sound, an unpitched hum at the top of the audio spectrum.
"Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere" is a good movie about making a great album, but it isn't as successful at illuminating the artist behind the songs. Jeremy Allen White, that formidable presence ...
Boxed sets celebrating classic rock albums offer the joy of discovery, in all those abandoned alternate versions being brought into the light as bonus tracks, but usually also some simultaneous ...