Posts Tagged ‘bruce springsteen’

The Boss performing his ‘Born To Run’ classic live at Hyde Park in 2009

US chat show host Jimmy Fallon has enlisted the talents of Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen for his second comedy album, which will be released in June.

Music video by Bruce Springsteen performing Death To My Hometown. (C) 2012 Bruce Springsteen

Rage Against The Machine‘s Tom Morello has admitted he was ‘terrified’ when performing with Bruce Springsteen at the South By Southwest festival earlier this month.

Paul Simon will bring his classic 1986 album ‘Graceland‘ to this year’s Hard Rock Calling for a headline appearance at the festival.

Bruce Springsteen was joined onstage by Arcade Fire, The Low Anthem and Tom Morello during an intimate performance at the South By Southwest festival last night (March 15th).

Bruce Springsteen is well placed to top the UK Album Chart this Sunday (March 11th), midweek figures released today show.

Somebody once asked Woody Guthrie about the way he wrote songs. “I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself,” he said. Bruce Springsteen seems to have lived and played his whole working life by those words, if ‘Wrecking Ball‘ is anything to go by.

Songs like ‘Easy Money‘, taking a highly satisfying swing at the bankers of Wall Street, certainly feel like the kind of music Guthrie might make if he were alive today. This whole shaking, rattling Irish wake of a record is about life on the poverty line, laying down simple melodies written expressly for a stadium of voices to sing along to. Springsteen knows, and has always known, that he doesn’t have a job without that stadium of voices, and he takes every opportunity he can to give something back to those voices.

Bruce Springsteen will perform a special intimate gig at next month’s South By Southwest festival, where he is also due to deliver the event’s keynote speech.

Rock concerts will continue to be staged in Hyde Park after organisers reached an agreement with the council following complaints from local residents.