Caryn Rose

Even when Bruce sticks to the script in a playhouse, he can deliver a ranging and intimate performance full of the history and emotion befitting his long career.

At Stand Up For Heroes, the evening usually begins with Bob and Lee Woodruff welcoming the donors and the honored guests, both active duty and veterans of the US armed forces. This year, they weren't onstage for more than a few minutes before Bob Woodruff gleefully announced, "Bruce is back!"

Stand Up For Heroes
Featuring Jimmy Carr, Eric Church, Seth Meyers, Jim Gaffigan, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart and Special Guests
At most benefit performances, the shout outs from the stage are at celebrities, actors, models, musicians -- but at Stand Up For Heroes, the props are given to veterans, active duty military, and a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

50 years ago, on Halloween, the MC5 stepped onstage at the Grande Ballroom in their hometown of Detroit and performed a concert that would become their debut album, Kick Out The Jams. This weekend, the Wayne Kramer-led tribute to his former comrades, touring as MC50, returned to the scene of the crime with two sold-out shows in the Motor City: Friday night at the 1,000-capacity St. Andrew’s Hall, and Saturday night at the 2,888-capacity Fill...

Pearl Jam is one of the most dynamic live acts in rock history. Aside from a brief period of revolving drummers, the original lineup of lead singer Eddie Vedder, guitarists Stone Gossard and Mike McCready, bassist Jeff Ament, is still very much together, along with the welcomed 1998 addition of Soundgarden’s Matt Cameron. As wa...

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Released in 1975, Born To Run was Bruce Springsteen‘s last-ditch attempt at stardom. A hemi powered vehicle to transport the New Jersey musician from Asbury Park to rock and roll immortality, and it worked.

Whether you’re lounging in a beach chair, perched under a tree, or taking refuge next to a blasting air conditioner, the summer months offer many opportunities to sit back and read for hours on end. In that spirit, here are some of our favorite recent or soon-to-be-released music books, ranging from expert surveys of jazz and grime to fiction inspired by the sci-fi fabulousness of glam rock.
One night in 2007, an MC clash on UK radio captured two grime factions at war. In one corner was Ghett...

The Monday night screening of the documentary Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band was, after all, another star-studded Tribeca Film Festival premiere, so the appearances of the likes of Clive Davis, Jon Landau, and Jimmy Iovine wasn't exactly unusual.

Angels of Harlem: U2 rock The Apollo Theater on June 11, 2018 in New York City as part of a SiriusXM private concert event.
Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater has always inspired the best from those brave enough to step out under her footlights. No matter how big you are, the reputation of this historic room opened in 1913 precedes you. None of this vanishes just because a corporate concern — Sirius XM Radio — hosts what is in effect a promotional event with one of the largest bands on the pla...

As the old joke goes, Fred Astaire was a great dancer, but Ginger Rogers did everything he did—backwards and in high heels. Similarly, when it comes to pop music, women have often had to fight twice as hard and be twice as savvy as men to triumph in an industry eager to minimize them.
This is especially clear in the history of girl groups, which has offered a reflection of women’s evolving autonomy in America across the last 60 years. Borne of the late-’50s doo-wop scene, with a smattering of...

U2 have just completed the U.S. leg of their Experience + Innocence Tour, which was an ambitious, inspirational performance piece which also suffered from U2’s usual habit of trying to do too much with a rock and roll show. This tendency is both the best and worst thing about them, simultaneously: At this point in their career, they could walk out onstage and play any one of their greatest hits albums from start to finish and they’d still sell out stadiums all over the planet. The fact that t...

On the occasion of the release of U2’s 14th studio album, Songs of Experience, it is worth noting how remarkable it actually is that this band has remained a going concern for over 40 years, since Larry Mullen Jr. put up a notice at Mount Temple Comprehensive School: “Drummer seeks musicians to form band.”

In 1974, a random phrase popped into Bruce Springsteen’s head as he was writing, one that seemed to match the music he was hearing in his mind. It took Springsteen six months to turn that phrase, “Born to Run,” into a song, and it was a watershed moment for his work: the first time he wrote a song with the studio in mind rather than how it would sound onstage.