Bruce Springsteen

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Live Review, 4/24/12: Bruce Springsteen Takes Crowd-Pleasing to the Next Level in San Jose

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street BandTuesday, April 24, 2012HP Pavilion, San JoseBetter than: Every other crowd surfer that has ever landed on us.You know how people throw the word "epic" around these days? (Let's be honest, "epic" is the new "awesome".) Well, tonight, Bruce Springsteen is epic. ... More >>

SXSW: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Rock ACL Live

By CRAIG HLAVATY Bruce Springsteen's Thursday started with a keynote speech in one of the big ballrooms at the Austin Convention Center, and ended with a mythic three-hour set at ACL Live across town, in front of a few thousand people cooing "Bruce!" The keynote and the show went hand in hand. If ... More >>

Bruce Springsteen's Wrecking Ball: A First Listen

​Bruce Springsteen has done a lot in the last 20 years: toured for John Kerry, immortalized a horrific moment of police brutality in "American Skin (41 Shots)," and put his money where his mouth is as America's Poster Boy, with a big fat folk album enlisting a dozen sepia-toned authenticity arbite ... More >>

Does Rock Music Make People Racist? These Researchers Think So

Today in the department of WTF, we have this: A new study from researchers at the University of Minnesota claims that listening to even just a few minutes of rock music like Bruce Springsteen or the White Stripes causes white people to favor their own race to the detriment of others. Meanwhile, lis ... More >>

Jimmy Eat World on the Success of "Bleed American"

Today in the department of WTF, we have this: A new study from researchers at the University of Minnesota claims that listening to even just a few minutes of rock music like Bruce Springsteen or the White Stripes causes white people to favor their own race to the detriment of others. Meanwhile, lis ... More >>

R.I.P. Clarence Clemons, Springsteen Sideman and Saxophone Great

​The Big Man is gone. Clarence Clemons, who over four decades helped leave his own stamp on popular music with bombastic, soaring saxophone playing with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and others, died Saturday. He was 69.

Mark Growden’s New Traditionalism

A sometime jazzman tackles American folk, and leaves his own imprint.

A Postcard from the Future

Or, how 2011 was the year everything changed in music.

The Top 6 Most. Irritating. Christmas. Songs. Ever?

Oh dear God, is there a worse time of year for music than Christmas? We certainly don't think so. Walking into anywhere public right about now is like having our ears pelted from on high by sleigh bells (no, not that duo from Brooklyn -- we quite like them) and snowballs filled with glass. But! Bein ... More >>

Folsom Street Fair, Tour De Fat, Springsteen Tribute, Jared Mees & Grown Children, Arts Expo and More

Jared Mees & the Grown Children play The Hemlock this Sunday​ There are so many awesome events this warm weekend in September, the problem won't be what to do, but how to pack it all in. Make the best use of your time, map out a proper schedule and get to it. Here's this week's list of ten th ... More >>

Top Six Most Inappropriate Uses of a Song on TV, Ever

​Having heard the news that Lou Reed reportedly refused to let Susan Boyle perform "Perfect Day" on America's Got Talent last week (resulting in her apparently fleeing the country in floods of tears; Reed says legal issues were to blame), we couldn't help but start thinking about the variety of so ... More >>

The Top Five Songs About Pregnancy That'll Make You Celibate

As we all know, there are entire genres of music that exist solely for the purpose of getting you in the mood for humping; soundtracking said humping when humpage commences; or for reminiscing about the humping after the humping is over. But every now and again, the universe throws us some tunes to ... More >>

Come Together: Paul McCartney's Return to SF

​My mom is way cooler than I am. Back when she lived in Atlanta, Georgia, and had a southern accent still intact, she was a music journalist whose homemade chocolate chip cookies gave her an automatic "in" backstage at Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen concerts. At 57, she continues to tell me ... More >>

Medicine for Melancholy

​My mom is way cooler than I am. Back when she lived in Atlanta, Georgia, and had a southern accent still intact, she was a music journalist whose homemade chocolate chip cookies gave her an automatic "in" backstage at Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen concerts. At 57, she continues to tell me ... More >>

Listomania 2009: Unintentional Lyrical Hilarity

​My mom is way cooler than I am. Back when she lived in Atlanta, Georgia, and had a southern accent still intact, she was a music journalist whose homemade chocolate chip cookies gave her an automatic "in" backstage at Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen concerts. At 57, she continues to tell me ... More >>

Top 10 Onstage Gaffes of 2009

We'll admit there's more than a little schadenfreude going on in this list of the best onstage gaffes of 2009. But why else would Al Gore have invented YouTube if not to feed our obsessive need to see celebrities get taken down a peg? Here with, our favorite of the year's music-related missteps, cau ... More >>

LiveNation/Ticketmaster Merger Raises Congressional Concerns

Pissed Off: Bruce Springsteen​ The proposed merger between concert venue conglomerate Live Nation and ticket hub mecca Ticketmaster (announced last February) has already resulted in catcalls from The Boss, Bruce Springsteen, who wrote an open letter to his fans after Ticket Master upsold tickets ... More >>

Kill yourself if you listen to classic rock

Pissed Off: Bruce Springsteen​ The proposed merger between concert venue conglomerate Live Nation and ticket hub mecca Ticketmaster (announced last February) has already resulted in catcalls from The Boss, Bruce Springsteen, who wrote an open letter to his fans after Ticket Master upsold tickets ... More >>

Last Night: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at HP Pavilion

Christopher VictorioBruce Springsteen and the E Street BandWednesday, April 1, 2009HP Pavilion at San JoseReview By Melissa BaronBetter Than: Come on, it's the Boss. He's the best there is.Generations of Bruce Springsteen fans piled into HP Pavilion last night to see the rock 'n' roll legend live. F ... More >>

Bonnaroo Lineup Announced

BruceSpringsteen.netThe BossBreak out the Sharpie and circle your calendars. The lineup for the 2009 Bonnaroo Festival has just been announced, and suffice to say Woodstock and Lollapalooza have nothing on this. Just when you thought the four-day music and arts extravaganza, held on a farm in rural ... More >>

Separated at Birth? Possible Future Spymaster and Current E-Street Drummer

Call us crazy, but does quasi-local congressman-turned-CIA head nominee Leon Panetta look more than a little like former Conan O'Brien and current Bruce Springsteen drummer Max Weinberg? Got a better suggestion? How about "Luis" (center) from Sesame Street? -- Joe Eskenazi

The Boss Back in Town -- Bruce Springsteen April 2 at the HP Pavilion

Call us crazy, but does quasi-local congressman-turned-CIA head nominee Leon Panetta look more than a little like former Conan O'Brien and current Bruce Springsteen drummer Max Weinberg? Got a better suggestion? How about "Luis" (center) from Sesame Street? -- Joe Eskenazi

LastNight: Bruce Springteen Turns Bouncer into Fangirl at Oracle Arena

Call us crazy, but does quasi-local congressman-turned-CIA head nominee Leon Panetta look more than a little like former Conan O'Brien and current Bruce Springsteen drummer Max Weinberg? Got a better suggestion? How about "Luis" (center) from Sesame Street? -- Joe Eskenazi

Jersey Boys

Bruce Springsteen and Danzig battle for Garden State supremacy

CD Review: Bruce Springsteen -- Magic

Bruce Springsteen and Danzig battle for Garden State supremacy

SF Gets More Boss: Bruce Springsteen Second Date Added

Bruce Springsteen and Danzig battle for Garden State supremacy

War and Woody Allen: the various ways lovers attempt letting go

Bruce Springsteen and Danzig battle for Garden State supremacy

Two Gallants

The Scenery of Farewell (Saddle Creek)

Crawdaddy! Rock

Influential '60s rock mag returns for the 21st century

The snorification of indie rock

Influential '60s rock mag returns for the 21st century

Meet the New Boss

The Hold Steady's version of classic rock is full of sex, drugs, and Jesus

Beastie Boys

To the 5 Boroughs

Ill Communiqué

A couple of former punks score a bull's-eye with Poison Arrows, their punk-inspired non-punk debut

Independent Thinking

Two new high-class local venues. Bruce Springsteen concerts. Sounds like the work of Clear Channel. But it's not.

Rancid

Indestructible

"Crappy Records"

Zagat's new "music guide" is absurd, but its "format" offers a "nice way" to review "lame albums."

Hear This

New Music: What it is, where to hear it, and why it's such a stupid name for a genre

The Falling

Emotional correctness dominates this interview-turned-play about 9/11

Hammer of the Gods

With a handful of artists, "classic rock" is not

a pejorative

Dog Bites

What Did You Sing in the War, Daddy?; Anthrax for Dummies

Pump It Up

What Did You Sing in the War, Daddy?; Anthrax for Dummies

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Greg Kihn

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Greg Kihn

Letters

Greg Kihn

Who's the Boss?

Greg Kihn

Riff Raff

Greg Kihn

The Book of Lists

SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

Samples

SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

The Grapes of Wrath

Bruce Springsteen reinvents himself as working-class hero