I stopped in the local Best Buy Thursday to pick up a couple CDs and two things caught my attention.
First, I see Best Buy is stocking vinyl LPs. That’s right, the things I grew up listening to. Now perhaps vinyl has made some technological advances over the last 35 years and these are [...]
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced today and Bob Dylan nabbed one. Not for a particular book for a piece of music. Instead, he was given a special citation “for his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.” I’m sure Dylan could really care [...]
Hitting consecutive shows by Springsteen and the E Street Band in Omaha and St. Paul provided interesting insight into the culture of Springsteen.
You see, every show I’ve seen with the E Street Band is much like an old-fashioned tent revival in the church of rock and roll. Bruce and the band preach a gospel [...]
“A woman snapped and stabbed her partner to death after he objected to her listening to Bruce Springsteen music, a court has been told.”
Perhaps the fact my wife and I are heading to two Springsteen concerts this weekend made me a bit more attentive to that news article. Fortunately, though, it wasn’t my wife [...]
I could simply just rave about how Friday night’s performance by the Joe Lovano Quartet ranks among the top shows in my memory in the SFJB Concert Series. Yet a particular thought often came to mind during the concert: how grateful I am that I had college roommates who helped me develop an appreciation for [...]
My choice for Record of the Year shouldn’t really come as a surprise. It’s got to be Bruce Springsteen’s Magic. I don’t know that I find it as strong as some others have but when you combine a return to the essentials of rock music with the underlying themes of many of the [...]
The last couple days convinced me it was karma that my middle daughter ended up going to college in Nebraska. For reasons detailed below, it looked liked there might a temporary blackout here in today’s on sale for Springsteen’s March 14 appearance in Omaha. Figuring a town in Nebraska wouldn’t be subject to [...]
The last time this post title appeared it was because I had tickets to a Springsteen solo performance at Northrup Auditorium in Minneapolis. Today, it is because I got two good lower level seats to Bruce and the E Street Band in St. Paul on March 16.
That’s right. Immediately after last Friday’s concert [...]
This post has been simmering for well more than a month now and, while I hate to admit it, the recent long home stand of the Stampede brings it to fruition. The games reminded me all too painfully of songs that absolutely drive me nuts.
I’m not talking annoying, somewhat obnoxious or even mere hatred [...]
BoingBoing pointed me to an interesting little tool over at Gracenote. Once known as CDDB, Gracenote provides the service a lot of music software uses to obtain album information. When you insert a disc into the CD or DVD drive on your computer, the software may very well connect to Gracenote to populate [...]
On the cusp of the release of Bruce Springsteen’s latest, Magic, I’m not ready to declare it a classic or a masterpiece. It has a few moments that are a bit too predictable, almost somewhat formula. But repeated listening, bolstered by seeing a recording of the performances on The Today Show this past [...]
I’ll admit I don’t have a solution. But there’s got to be a better way of handling ticket sales for both concerts and sporting events.
My frustration stems in part from not getting Springsteen tickets. The Xcel Energy Center should hold probably 15,000 for the concert. But only a few hundred tickets remained [...]
Tickets for Springsteen’s Nov. 2 appearance at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul went on sale at 10 a.m. today. Knowing I have a mind like a sieve that’s rusted enough it’s got more holes in it, I put it on my electronic calendar for work, marked it a “High Priority” item and [...]
I heard the music (a couple times) hours before I heard the news. Magic, the Springsteen and the E Street Band album set for release Oct. 2, has leaked onto the internet.
At first listen, my reaction amounted to, “It’s okay.” I was more favorably impressed with each subsequent listen and I even began considering [...]
The news e-mail from the wonderful Backstreets was my first word the long-rumored E Street tour has been announced. St. Paul is Friday, Nov. 2. Based on what I considered fairly reliable info a week or so ago, I already have reservations at the Holiday Inn across the street from the Xcel that [...]
The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War by Asne Seierstad
