In her 2019 song “London Boy,” Taylor Swift talks about being a thoroughly American girl in love with someone from across the pond. Listing her patriotic bona fides, she asserts, […]

Bruce Springsteen made an unscheduled (if highly anticipated) appearance at the Light of Day festivities at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank this past Saturday, and […]

It was a much-anticipated football weekend for our tiny Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music team, as our staff has 49ers, Seahawks, AND Rams fans on it. Yours truly, personally, […]

I was giving a public program on “Born to Run and the American Experience,” in Brick Township, NJ, recently and someone in the audience shared a “fun fact” with the […]

The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music Announces New Name: The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. (January 13, 2026) — The Bruce Springsteen […]

Greetings from the Lone Star State! I’ve been here all week de-installing our traveling exhibition Music America: Iconic Objects from America’s Music History—and as meticulous, physically demanding, and bittersweet as […]

Exhibit Opens February 12, 2026, at the Boch Center Wang Theatre (Boston) The Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame is debuting a new exhibit full of items that have shaped American […]

When MTV signs off on its 24/7 music-only channels for the last time today, it will mark more than the end of a few television stations. It will close the […]

I was giving a public program on music and the Vietnam War last month, and a veteran in the audience approached me at the end and asked why I didn’t […]

For many Americans, the holiday season wouldn’t feel complete without a viewing of White Christmas. First released in 1954, the film has become a perennial favorite. At the Bruce Springsteen […]