Subject: Bruce Springsteen

• Glory Days

  February 20, 2007

• Confessions of a Classic Rock Whore, or One Man’s Journey

  July 13, 2007

• No Surrender: Bruce Springsteen Hates Radio Almost as Much as You Do

  August 24, 2007

• Boss Fans Take Note: Springsteen Announces First Local Date Since 2002

  November 20, 2007

• Drenched in Blog: Happy 25th, Thriller

  November 30, 2007

• Get Lit: For You: Original Stories and Photographs by Bruce Springsteen’s Legendary Fans, edited by Lawrence Kirsch

  December 4, 2007

• Dave Matthews Sucks, Almost as Much as Ken Hoffman Does

  February 5, 2008

• Last Night: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Toyota Center

  April 15, 2008

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Steve Earle at Verizon

  April 28, 2008

• Alejandro Escovedo Spills the Beans on Houston Springsteen Duet

  July 16, 2008

• StubHub: Houston is America's 17th "Most Rockin' City"

  August 14, 2008

• Against Me! at ACL Fest

  September 28, 2008

• Ten Performers Besides Bruce Springsteen Who Were Considered for the Super Bowl

  October 2, 2008

• Songs Not To Play At Intercontinental Airport's New Karaoke Booth

  So now there's a karaoke booth at Intercontinental Airport. According to the Houston Chronicle, travelers can choose from "hundreds of titles."We got to wondering this morning about what's in their song selections there and more to the point -- what isn't.We imagine that the management of IAH's karaoke bar had to have studied the infamous September 2001 Clear Channel memorandum of songs with "questionable" lyrics, some of which concerned aerial death and disaster. If they did, they would know to

  December 4, 2008

• New Tape Of A Young Springsteen Remembering His First Houston Gigs

  Someone has put up on YouTube the long audio interview he did with a very young Bruce Springsteen in Phoenix on March 24th, 1974 (Way before the 1978 Phoenix show that included the legendarily filmed "Rosalita").In part two of the six-part interview, Springsteen talks about the reception he's been getting out West, which was much better than back on the East Coast. (He also mentions, incredibly enough to someone hearing it today, that the band won't be able to go to Callifornia from Phoenix beca

  December 12, 2008

• Classic Rock Corner: In Memoriam 2008

  You know, the Grim Reaper don't care if you're a multiplatinum music legend, a one-hit wonder or studio-only sideman - he's comin' for you someday! And in 2008, he seemed to like keyboardists and drummers most. A number of classic rockers left for "The Great Gig in the Sky," foremost of whom is the composer of that song... Rick Wright, keyboardist, Pink Floyd (1943-2008): While David Gilmour and Roger Waters were locked in an often ugly head-to-head in battle for creative control and band leade

  December 29, 2008

• Aftermath: The Magpies and Sideshow Tramps at the Continental Club

  Photos by Chris Gray It didn't look good at the beginning. A few minutes after 9 p.m. Wednesday, the posted start time for visiting Cleveland roots-rockers the Magpies, the "count" at the Continental Club front door was all of 16 paying customers, and the band was nowhere in sight. Two chicken tacos at Tacos a Go-Go and one Lone Star at the Big Top later, things were much improved. The room was considerably fuller - and would go on to be one of the biggest Wednesday-night crowds Aftermath ha

  January 8, 2009

• U2 Lace Up Their Dirty "Boots"

  Among, you know, a few other things, the past 24 hours have been the start of a very, very big year for the band Rocks Off affectionately refers to as the Best Band Ever. U2 appeared alongside Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, "One" pal Mary J. Blige and many more as Barack Obama's opening acts at yesterday's massive "We are One" concert on the National Mall in Washington D.C. "Restraint" is not a word normally associated with Bono and the boys, but they showed it yesterday. Not so much in th

  January 19, 2009

• Musicians Don't Have W. to Kick Around Anymore... So Now What?

  Now that Lil' Bush has shuffled off the Presidential coil - or will in a couple of hours, anyway - and heads off into some Dallas burg to write his memoirs and reflect on his two wild and strange terms as Commander in Chief, it seems that the writers of so many protest songs can call off their guns and put their grudges to bed. With an artist-friendly liberal president in Barack Obama, what will come of all the anger and poison that helped so many musicians write protest anthem after protest an

  January 20, 2009

• Bruce Springsteen Confirms Second Houston Show in a Year

  Alejandro Escovedo with Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band,"Always a Friend," Toyota Center, April 14, 2008 After last year's sold-out show that ended with both Alejandro Escovedo and Joe Ely duetting with the Boss, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are headed back to Houston for their second show within a year April 8 at Toyota Center. See the Press' review of last April's show here. Springsteen's official Web site announced the tour, supporting

  January 27, 2009

• Aftermath: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at Super Bowl XLIII

  Part 1: "10th Avenue Freeze-Out" and "Born to Run" Score another one for the old folks. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's quarter-hour onstage at Super Bowl XLIII Sunday night may not have been the most contemporary booking the NFL could have landed - but, and we'll get to this in a minute, maybe it was - and yet it's hard to imagine Lil Wayne, the Jonas Brothers or Katy Perry putting on nearly as soul-stirring a performance, let alone one that wasn't upstaged by a fireworks

  February 2, 2009

• Album of the Week: Bruce Springsteen's Working on a Dream

  Bruce Springsteen is one prolific motherfucker. After all, he's produced one entire 4 CD box set (Tracks) of songs that he thought weren't good enough to be included on a regular album, and much of it still blew away anything in comparison. In that vein, we have Working on a Dream, coming little more than a year after his last effort - a record in Bruceland - written and recorded almost entirely during breaks and hiatuses from last year's Magic tour. Obviously, the Boss had something to say

  February 2, 2009

• Miss Pop Rocks Watches the Super Bowl

  Oh God, my stomach is so distended. WHY do I do this to myself every Super Bowl Sunday? I watch one football game each year and it's this one, and the only reason I watch it is to have an excuse to eat snacks and watch commercials. A few thoughts on this year's game: First of all, choirs are very in, apparently. Both Faith Hill and Bruce Springsteen had choirs in their shows. Speaking of The Boss, did you check out his crotch slide right into the camera during the halftime gig? We were at

  February 3, 2009

• Austin's Fave

  May 1, 1997

• St. Patrick's Day Special: Sinead O'Connor, "You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart"

  Fun Fact: This song was written by Bono and his childhood friends Gavin Friday (Virgin Prunes) and Maurice Seezer, and featured in the 1993 Jim Sheridan film In the Name of the Father. It lost the 1994 Best Original Song - Motion Picture Golden Globe to Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Philadelphia."

  March 17, 2009

• WrestleMania: The Slideshow!!!!!

  Photo by Dan Kramer"Have you ever seen a one-legged dog making its way down the street? If you've ever seen a one-legged dog than you've seen me," Bruce Springsteen sings in the title song to The Wrestler.Well, we've never seen a one-legged dog, to be honest, but we could have seen Mickey Rourke if we went to last night's WrestleMania extravaganza at Reliant Stadium. We could also have seen lots of fireworks, manic dives, complicated plot lines, and 70,000 ecstatic fans.Luckily Dan Kramer was th

  April 6, 2009

• Springsteen Tickets for 20 Bucks

  Chris Gray The line for Springsteen tickets shortly after noon - Rocks Off would assume there are still tickets available (they're in the upper deck, btw). Bring a couple of canned goods please. It's always nice to find something out from the daily, but when it involves Bruce Springsteen, Rocks Off is more than happy to poach, poach away. According to this item on the Chronicle's new entertainment/lifestyle website, 29-95.com - which debuted last week to nary a mention from its print

  April 7, 2009

• Crooked Fingers

  February 5, 2009

• Don't Stop Believin'

  January 29, 2009

• Who Stole the Roll?

  August 28, 2008

• A Super-Patriotic July 4 Playlist

  Have You Forgotten?

  July 3, 2008

• Local Motion

  December 27, 2007

• Bruce Springsteen, Magic

  CD Review

  October 18, 2007

• Protest Songs for George W.

  That's my Bush!

  May 17, 2007

• Phat Promises for 2007

  New Year's resolutions of the stars

  December 28, 2006

• Tortoise & Bonnie "Prince" Billy

  The Brave and the Bold

  February 23, 2006

• Beastie Boys

  To the 5 Boroughs (Capitol)

  June 17, 2004

• Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

  Monday, November 4

  October 31, 2002

• Bruce Springsteen

  The Rising (Columbia)

  August 15, 2002

• Listen In

  Clandestine -- Dave Nevling and the Blues Kats -- Tommy Dardar and the Sheetrockers

  April 27, 2000

• St. Boss

  April 13, 2000

• Static

  January 4, 1996

• Live at Liberty Hall

  April 30, 2009

• Aftermath: Fake Problems and Born Anchor at Walter's on Washington

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty On a Monday night, all you can really look forward to is a decent evening of lackluster television and maybe some leftover barbecue from the weekend's flame-kissed debauchery. But last night at Walter's was the exact anecdote for a "case of da Mondays" in so many ways. In recent years, it sounds as if punk kids have started to crawl deeper into their family record collections. Early Springsteen, Thin Lizzy, all manner of grimy/twangy beard-rock, and even U2 circa The Josh

  May 12, 2009

• Eyeballin: Bruce Springsteen: Road Trip - 40 Years of the Boss

  While its packaging and title are fairly misleading - the cover photo of Road Trip is a contemporary concert shot, and there's nothing here covering anything past 1984's Born in the USA, this nearly three-hour, 2-DVD documentary is still a worthwhile title for the hardcore Boss lover looking to go deeper than a Rolling Stone record review. Disc 1 is a wonderful, well-shot documentary about Springsteen's life and music from his teen years up to the massive global success of USA. It utilizes

  June 29, 2009

• Houston 101: You Knew We Would Have To Do This One -- Liberty Hall

  ​Liberty Hall, by the 1970s, had somewhat survived its time as a church and an American Legion hall to become probably the hippest rock club in the city.Comfortably seedy, the Hall hosted legends like the Velvet Underground, Gram Parsons (with Neil Young and Linda Ronstadt sitting in), the Ramones and even Ted Nugent.But it's most famous of all, around here, for launching Bruce Springsteen in the state. Thirty-five years ago, he played seven shows over four days at the hall, which could seat u

  July 31, 2009

• Slide Show: Albums That Went Darker

  ​ For most rock acts, the traditional way to deal with success is to rework their lyrics, image and sound to become palatable to a larger audience. Usually this means brightening the subject matter, cleaning up the bad words, softening the sharp edges on those power chords and getting haircuts that cost more than the previous album. This is a process commonly known as "selling out"; however, it doesn't always work that way. Sometimes, for whatever reason, the artist in question becomes angrier

  August 5, 2009

• Chris Knight

  September 3, 2009

• 9/9/09: Songs With a Certain Number in the Title

  ​As Hair Balls pointed out, we've only got three more of these weird number/same number/same number days left this century after today. Such chronological repetition appeals to the hidden obsessive-compulsive in all of us, so join us as we wash our hands nine times, lock the door nine times, and listen to nine great songs featuring the number nine. The Clovers - Love Potion No. 9: The titular love potion that turns this song's protagonist into a maniac who starts "kissin' everything in sight"

  September 9, 2009

• Get Lit: Three More for That Already Groaning Springsteen Bookshelf

  Daniel KramerThe Big Man, the Boss and Mighty Max Weinberg at Toyota Center, April 2009​ Just as Bruce Springsteen winds down a frenzied period of back-to-back album and tour marathon - despite the death of Springsteen's cousin/assistant tour manager earlier this week in Kansas City, he and the E Street Band, as well as special guests Sam Moore (Sam & Dave) and Darlene Love, are scheduled to play a concert commemorating the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 25th anniversary at Madison Square Ga

  October 29, 2009