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In The Village Voice Today, More Thoughts On Wrecking Ball & Jimmy Fallon

A View From The Bench: Bruce Springsteen's Legacy On Wrecking Ball And Jimmy Fallon, which is a combination piece on the Fallon appearances tied in with my thoughts on Rocky Ground is available on the Village Voice today.

This is my first Voice byline!

If you liked In The Village Voice Today, More Thoughts On Wrecking Ball & Jimmy Fallon you may be interested in my novel, "B-sides and Broken Hearts": http://www.bsidesandbrokenhearts.com/

Village Voice today

A View From The Bench: Bruce Springsteen's Legacy On Wrecking Ball And Jimmy Fallon, which is a combination piece on the Fallon appearances tied in with my thoughts on Rocky Ground is available on the Village Voice today.

This is my first Voice byline!

If you liked Village Voice today you may be interested in my novel, "B-sides and Broken Hearts": http://www.bsidesandbrokenhearts.com/

Record Review: Bruce Springsteen's "Wrecking Ball"

It would be easy to write a review of Bruce Springsteen's Wrecking Ball album and salute it as new, novel, angry and revolutionary, but it would also be unfortunate and uninformed to do call it any of those things. I'd easily go out on a limb and state that I believe that Wrecking Ball is the most interesting album Springsteen has released since Tunnel of Love, but the only thing new is that this is the first time that he has taken a select group of the elements he has been talking about and ...

Springsteen on Jimmy Fallon, 3/2/12

Back for night two.

Monday was calm and uneventful, today was security checks and lists being oversold (okay, not oversold, but overcommitted). Many band bench ticket holders were placed in the audience proper, while the bench itself ended up filled with shiny youthful boys and girls of the correct demographic for the show (and the demographic Bruce is trying to reach, hence committing to the show), but who looked confused during the entire set, when they weren't doing 'white boy tries to...

Springsteen on Jimmy Fallon, 2/27/12

The performance was, quite honestly, amazing.

It was amazing because they are clearly rehearsed within an inch of their life, and everyone looks good and healthy and strong and the playing is strong. I predict the usual start-of-tour roughness we are all accustomed to will just plain old not exist in the early shows.

We got routed to the platform on stage left, in the front row right above Roy. As anyone who has ever read my show reports previously will already know, that is the location we a...

1/26 Reading at Pete's Candy Store

I am reading on Thursday at 7:30 as part of Pete's Reading Series, along with Rosie Schaap! Details here. See you there?

If you liked 1/26 Reading at Pete's Candy Store you may be interested in my novel, "B-sides and Broken Hearts": http://www.bsidesandbrokenhearts.com/

Letter Never Sent, Born In The USA Edition

Found in an old notebook from college (Civil Rights & Discrimination, if you care), a letter I started to someone I must have met at the BITUSA shows I went to in Greensboro, North Carolina, January 1985.

I went to Greensboro because the logic was that it would be easier to get good tickets (and it was—I was in the first section of the floor both nights) and these were indoor arena shows (obviously, in January). I believe there was also some invocation of the logic that even with flight...

We Take Care Of Our Own

STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS:

I hear a sax in my head instead of Nils in the intro. (Is it Nils? I don't know. WOULD LOVE SOME ACTUAL CREDITS, so I knew who was playing what. Big downside to downloading. We'll have them in the morning.I almost wish it was less pop and more of a barn burner with more electric guitar and less strings, but obviously we have no idea what this will sound like live.I like the piano, a lot. I like the other textural effects a lot less.I get the "angry" part – he's...

Patti Smith: Camera Solo

I traveled to Hartford last weekend to see Patti Smith's first museum photography exhibit, titled Camera Solo at the Wadsworth Atheneum. It's a small but dense exhibit, three rooms of photographs and artifacts. It took about an hour and a half to go through everything, which included time to watch a 7-minute 35mm short that was part of the exhibit, and to revisit favorites at the end.

The exhibit is accompanied by an audio tour that you can access from your cellphone, by dialing an 800...

Patti Smith performs U2′s "Until The End of The World" live

Definitely did not see this one coming last night!

I am so divided on this cover of the song. I think she starts off strong and think the initial attitude and perspective work, but then feel like the performance loses its way a little bit–and not just because of the lyric changes, or that she forgets the words at one point. I think it's that I just want it to work so incredibly badly that I will forgive it a million sins, which robs me of true objectivity.

More on the show later.