Subject: Bruce Springsteen

• Last night at Honda Center: Bruce Springsteen with Rage ATM's Tom Morello

  I'm still trying to absorb a lot of last night's Bruce Springsteen show at Honda Center -- I'll have more on Wednesday, a less-deadline-intensified day 'round these Weekly parts. But in the meantime, enjoy this from-the-nosebleeds clip from the gig, with special guest Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, doing Bruce's "Ghost of Tom Joad" (which Rage itself has covered many times live). Watch it all the way till the end for some of Tom's skullcrushing guitar acrobatics... Also, the setlist

  April 8, 2008

• Bruce Springsteen at Honda Center: Finger-lickin' good!

  (Warning: rambling diatribe ahead on Bruce Springsteen that may or may not make sense, but that's what blogs are for, no?) I’ve had moments of superfreak Springsteen fandom before. The bumper sticker on my car that proclaimed AND ON THE EIGHTH DAY GOD CREATED SPRINGSTEEN. The time I rented a car for one day (cost: $155.78) on my first trip to New York City in 1989 and drove down to Asbury Park to pocket a few splintered pieces of the wooden boardwalk, and to see where the “Tunnel of Loveâ€

  April 10, 2008

• The 90s Didnt Suck

  December 23, 1999

• One Step up, Two Steps Back

  May 25, 2000

• In Search of... Skatejam2000

  June 8, 2000

• The Substitute Soundtrack

  May 2, 2002

• Jersey Devil

  September 12, 2002

• Letters

  March 27, 2003

• Musical Advent Calendar: Bruce Springsteen, 'Pilgrim in the Temple of Love'

  There aren't a lot of songs in the holiday canon that talk about blowjobs, but there's a reason why Bruce Springsteen is the boss. Yep, strip clubs, Santa receiving oral sex, erections, vomit--not necessarily what you'd expect from a Christmas song or Springsteen. It's from his circa '95-'97 Ghost of Tom Joad tour, where he'd frequently pepper sets with funny, often raunchy tunes (like this one).

  December 13, 2008

• Fulfill Your Music Video Fantasies Tonight at Busywork

  If you've ever dreamed of being in a music video, and who hasn't (I wish it was me being pulled on stage to dance with Bruce Springsteen in the "Dancing in the Dark" video instead of that harlot Courtney Cox, sadly I was only 1 year old at the time), then tonight is the night to go to weekly dance night Busywork at Detroit Bar.They're filming the video for Busywork resident DJ Dan Sena's remix of "Haus of Cards" by Weird Science (not to be confused with the 1985 teen comedy, the song from the mo

  January 14, 2009

• Free Crap That Came In The Mail: Sally Kellerman, 'Sally'

  Of course, one of the perks of writing about music is getting albums before anyone else. You know, that unique sense of smug self-satisfaction that comes from getting promo CDs weeks before the rest of the world. (Sure, albums being routinely leaked online early has tempered the novelty of this, but it's still something.)Not that it's always something worth getting excited about. Or, uh, often. Take today, for example: Did I get the new Franz Ferdinand a week early? Bruce Springsteen? Nope. Inst

  January 20, 2009

• Bruce Springsteen Returns to SoCal, Releases an Album

  For an older fella, Bruce Springsteen has been keeping busy lately. His new album, Working on a Dream, is out today, he won a Golden Globe a couple weeks ago for the title track of "The Wrestler" (an excellent tune which was oddly snubbed at the Oscar noms), and he's playing at the Super Bowl on Sunday (go Cardinals!!).He--and the E Street Band--are also returning to Southern California on April 15, Live Nation announced today. The show will be at the LA Sports Arena, and comes about a year afte

  January 27, 2009

• [CD Review] The Killers, 'Day & Age' (Island)

  December 4, 2008

• Tom Morello's Nightwatchman Brings Chord Changes We Can Believe In

  December 11, 2008

• [Sound Guy] Seven Unsexy Songs About Sex

  February 12, 2009

• The Best Posts of 2008, Direct From the Weekly's Parallel Universe

  January 1, 2009

• A New York State of Mind at Rohrer Fine Art in Laguna Beach

  August 14, 2008

• Bruuuce!!

  April 3, 2008

• DVDish

  WEB EXCLUSIVE! You’ll Laugh Dying

  October 11, 2007

• Hits!

  Borders Books Music & Cafe
  

  October 11, 2007

• Sitting There On the Group W Bench

  The Guthrie Family Legacy Tour

  April 26, 2007

• On-Sale Saturday: Benefit Show with Social Distortion!

  Orange County punk/rockabilly legends Social Distortion are playing their first show in the area in some time (not counting Mike Ness solo shows; there's been plenty of those) on May 18 at the House of Blues in Anaheim. It's the "Rock to Recovery" event, benefiting "Jay Thomas and his battle with spinal cord injury." Also on the bill: the Vandals, the Black Tibetans and Japanese Motors. $40, on sale tomorrow (April 18) at 10 a.m.Speaking of Mike Ness, as we sort of were, he cameo'd last night at

  April 17, 2009

• You May Say I'm a Dreamer

  December 21, 2000

• The Wolf Triumphant

  Los Lobos

  December 21, 2006

• Doing It to Death

  August 11, 2005

• WEB EXCLUSIVE!Every Mothers Son

  May 26, 2005

• In the Presents of Greatness

  December 16, 2004

• Cleveland Rocked

  October 14, 2004

• No, You Shut Up

  Artists are Americans, too, You Jackasses

  August 26, 2004

• Joyful Noises

  December 4, 2003

• School of Rock

  October 9, 2003

• Retrospective Fatigue

  September 12, 2002

• Straight From the Heart

  July 25, 2002

• Hope They Die Before They Get Old

  June 27, 2002

• The Dylan Curse

  September 20, 2001

• Blues Plate Special

  July 19, 2001

• Rewind

  January 4, 2001

• Various Artists Badlands: A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska (Sub Pop)

  November 9, 2000

• Why Pearl Jam Still Matters

  November 2, 2000

• MarahKids in PhillyE-Squared/Atemis

  August 3, 2000

• Letters

  June 8, 2000

• Letters

  April 20, 2000

• He Lives!

  July 22, 1999

• Letters

  December 24, 1998

• Letters

  December 17, 1998

• No Irony, Please, We're Bruce Fans

  December 10, 1998

• Tomorrow: Fauxchella

  It's not often that Pearl Jam, the Rolling Stones, No Doubt, U2, the Cure, the Dave Matthews Band and Bruce Springsteen perform a free concert in Long Beach. In fact, it's never happened. Unfortunately, you can add tomorrow as just another one of those days when that dream bill won't come to fruition.But what do you do when you can't see the real deal? Tribute bands. Yes, that's right, a bunch of groups with names that have something to do with the artists they cover are playing a free show in L

  July 24, 2009

• The '59 Sound in the '09 Summer

  School's out. The sun poked through the "June gloom" yesterday. And most importantly, our 2009 Summer Guide was released this morning. It's official, summer has arrived... and while our guide has an abundance of information for making this summer the best one yet, we couldn't include everything. So without further ado, let me recommend an album that needs to be part of your summer rotation: The '59 Sound by The Gaslight Anthem.

  June 4, 2009

• The Gaslight Anthem; Murder By Death; The Loved Ones

  September 17, 2009

• Because the Night

  October 29, 2009