Bruce Springsteen Archives

Reviews 8

Keeping A Covenant: What we Bring to Springsteen Live, and What he Gives Back

Where We’re From, Where We’re Going To: On Death & Bruce Springsteen

Blown Out ’77: In The Studio With Suicide

Bruce Springsteen
Western Stars

Bruce Springsteen
Wrecking Ball

Bruce Springsteen
Working On A Dream

Articles 15

Books

“Want to Change My Clothes, My Hair, My Face”: How Springsteen Helped Me Come Out

In an exclusive edited extract from Niko Stratis’s new book The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman, the award-winning Canadian writer explores trans identity, the music of the American heartlands and how the Boss changed her life for good

Anniversary

Revelling In Failure: Bruce Springsteen’s Shut The Fuck Up Tour

25 years ago The Boss played Brixton Academy as part of his least successful tour since his first but, says, Liam Inscoe-Jones, while he may have been underperforming catastrophically in financial terms, this was also a time of creative rebirth

Books

Ready Yourself To Say Yes: David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue

The new book by Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell is a journey into the music of the 60s that somehow manages to avoid excessses of nostalgia or sentiment, finds Mathew Lyons

Anniversary

Band Of Pre-Brothers: Dire Straits’ Debut LP 40 Years On

On the 40th anniversary of their self-titled debut album, David Bennun looks back at the band Dire Straits were before mega-stardom

Anniversary

40 Years On: Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness On The Edge Of Town

Given that The Boss recorded Darkness between October 1977 and March 1978 you would think it would bear the influence of punk. And it does, says Michael Hann

A Quietus Interview

Best Supporting Actor: Steve Van Zandt Interviewed By Michael Hann

He's Silvio in the Sopranos, Bruce Springsteen's righthand man, now Steve Van Zandt has put out his first solo album in 18 years. He talks to Michael Hann about taking gyms on tour, the Boss, and why musicians should be more grateful to major labels

Strange World Of...

New York Blues: Four Decades Of Suicide, Martin Rev & Alan Vega

After MIA borrowed 'Ghostrider' for her new single and the duo supported The Stooges this past weekend, Luke Turner takes a look at Suicide's 40 years of noise

Black Sky Thinking

Neil Young & When Musicians Lose Their Moral Compass

After Neil Young came close to breaking the cultural boycott of Israel recently, Nick MacWilliam looks at some other occasions of musicians throwing ethics to the wind

Black Sky Thinking

Tracks Of Our Tears: 50 Songs That Make Quietus Writers & Artists Cry

Following this week's Quietus Essay exploring why music makes people cry, the Quietus writers and several artists select and discuss the songs that make them well up

Black Sky Thinking

Check His Track Records: We Determine The Best Running Music!

In a completely scientific experiment, JR Moores undertakes six runs in six days with a different soundtrack each day to work out which is the most advantageous for the pursuit of the jog...

Books

On The Road: Travels Between Rock & Hard Places With Andrew Mueller

Andrew Mueller rummages through his now borderline-classic book, Rock & Hard Places, reissued and revised this October, and digs out ten pivotal moments from his years on and off the bus

Black Sky Thinking

Rock Against Rockism: Why Liking The Boss Is Not Conservative

Some daft herbert of a researcher recently claimed that one crunching guitar riff can have you signing on the dotted line as a sexist, truck-drivin' member of the nasty right wing. What twaddle, argues Emily Mackay

Rock's Backpages

Classic Bruce Springsteen Interview: How Born To Run Saved The Boss

Bruce Springsteen may sell out a stadium tour in the blink of an eye nowadays, but as this 1975 interview by Dave Marsh from _Creem_ shows, it wasn't always so easy for The Boss...

Black Sky Thinking

Bruce Springsteen: The Best Of The Boss For One Side Of A C90

Everyone loves Bruce Springsteen. It's just not that everyone realises that they love Bruce Springsteen yet. Let David McNamee don his blue collar and explain his choices and choose the most interesting Boss covers.

Black Sky Thinking

Bruce Springsteen Attacks Quietus Scribe With Soda At Giants Stadium

Me, Balls, and The Boss. As Bruce Springsteen limbers up for this weekend's Super Bowl XLIII, Mark Eglinton remembers a soggy meeting with his idol at an American Football game

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 4

Baker's Dozen

True Pairings: Tom Fleming’s 13 Favourite Albums

Former Wild Beast Tom Fleming, who's just released his excellent debut album as One True Pairing, picks the 13 records that shaped him, from Tool and Def Leppard to Scott Walker and Joanna Newsom

Baker's Dozen

The Marshall Suite: Cat Power’s Favourite Albums

Chan Marshall guides Diva Harris through 13 albums that have soundtracked her life, from stealing cars to heartbreak and escaping difficult times

Baker's Dozen

A F**king Joy: Aidan Moffat’s Favourite Albums

With Aidan Moffat's excellent new record with Bill Wells just out, we sent Daniel Dylan Wray up to Glasgow to meet the former Arab Strap man/Quietus sex columnist to discuss his top formative albums. And, with the help of beers, a record player and one powerful deployment of the phrase "get to utter fuck", here's what he picked

Baker's Dozen

Funk Soul Brother: Alexis Taylor Of Hot Chip’s Favourite Albums

With his second solo album Await Barbarians released last month and a run of summer festival sets upcoming, the Hot Chip and About Group man gives Dom Smith his favourite album rundown