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Celebrate “High Hopes” at Springsteen Night 2014 at WORD Jersey City, January 14

Marc Dolan and I are at it again on Tuesday, January 14, at WORD’s new store in Jersey City. We’ll be joined this time by Kimberly Austin of Rock Book Show, who will be our charming moderator. She is a great interviewer and this will definitely take things up a notch.

There will be a raffle with prizes courtesy of our sponsor, Backstreets Magazine, including a copy of the new issue!

So if you’re moping that you didn’t get a spot on the Band Bench at Jimmy Fallon or if you couldn’t make it, co...

Review: Neil Young at Carnegie Hall

Another Billboard piece up today. Will also have something in the magazine this week (but only 150 words, don’t get too excited).

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Bruce Springsteen’s “High Hopes”: Track-by-Track Review

I wrote a track-by-track review of the new Springsteen album for Billboard.com.

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Patti Smith and Her Band, Webster Hall, 29 & 30 December 2013

Patti used to play every year at this time. The 29th was the show for the diehards, we’d huddle in the cold outside for an hour or two before sprinting up the stairs for the front. I used to joke that we could bowl inside Bowery Ballroom on those nights, no one else bothering to get there much before the show started. (That was until “Just Kids” and the book award and god bless, the world suddenly started showing up at the Bowery in December.) The 29th was usually loose and sloppy, mistakes,...

An Evening With Mick Jones & Paul Simonon

In the late 90s, I used to have this recurring dream about seeing the reunited Clash again. At the time, I was living in Seattle, so in the dream I was always in the back of Mercer Arena and I was always standing near some Seattle rock luminary: one time Mark Arm, another time Kim Thayil, one time Eddie Vedder and his wife Beth. (Their presence in the dream was actually not the fantastic part; had there been a Clash show in Seattle, I can pretty much guarantee all of those people would have b...

New Springsteen Album News

I wrote an in-depth look at the new Springsteen album announcement for Billboard.

To quote Backstreets, “They couldn’t go back to Australia without a new album, right? Right.”

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New York City Serenade: Why Won’t Bruce Play It In Europe?

Stand Up For Heroes 2013

I was thrilled to be able to attend last night (invitation from a colleague) and filed my report over at Backstreets.

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Concert Review: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Estadio El Molinon, Gijon, Spain, 27 June 2013
New York City Serenade: Why Won’t Bruce Play It In Europe?
Night 3 Review: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Friends Arena, Stockholm, 11 May 2013

More Lou

I wrote another essay on Lou’s passing for Billboard.com:

For a New York music fan, Lou was of us and for us. Part of the city died today when he did.

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Saying Goodbye to Uncle Lou

Bottom Line, 1983. My first Lou show. Photo by me.

Back in the early 80s, I was lost in the back alleys of Amsterdam on a dark, foggy night. I opened the door to a bar, just to find my bearings and take a break. The interior was dark and smoky and I wasn’t sure if this was a good idea or not. Then, the jukebox kicked into “Vicious” and I relaxed, knowing without a doubt that this place would be just fine.

Variations on this scene have been repeated in Germany and Boston, Tel Aviv and Atlanta,...

40 Years of Quadrophenia

I wrote a track-by-track breakdown of Quadrophenia on Billboard.com for its 40th anniversary this month.