Springsteen’s Born to Run turns 50
The album was born out of necessity
Bruce springsteen
Sunday
Friday
With reference to
You never know when or wherefrom these pitches are coming. I doubt that even Oscar Wilde could hit much above .500 in this league
Tuesday
Curb Your Enthusiasm’s finale was a mission statement for the show
Don’t tune in expecting that Larry would somehow be redeemed
Friday
Age is catching up with our much-beloved musicians
In our increasingly secular age, we worship rock stars as our deities, as figures who inspire our hopes and dreams and fantasies of excess
Tuesday
RFK goes it alone in Philadelphia
Someone near the front of the crowd held up a sign that said it all: ‘I want Camelot’
Monday
The Springsteen-Obama podcast is rambling and sloppily edited
Renegades is much more Dad Rock than Rock ’n’ Roll
Tuesday
Barack Obama’s music taste remains painfully mainstream
His new playlist sucks
Tuesday
Steven Van Zandt: Teachers make great audiences, probably because they never get out
Education is now the most important thing to me, and I don’t want anyone thinking it has something to do with politics
