Event graphic for the Rubber Soul festival in Asbury Park

“Everything Fab Four” Fest

Inaugural “Everything Fab Four” Fest to feature Max Weinberg, Jake Clemons & many more Event will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Beatles’ Rubber Soul album  ASBURY PARK, NJ – The Beatles’ seminal 1965 album Rubber Soul, often considered the first major turning point in the band’s recorded career, will take center stage November 6-8, 2025, at the inaugural Everything Fab Four Fest at […]

Blue Hawk Records team photo by Mark Krajnak

Curatorial Corner – Runaway American Dream

This week in the Curatorial Corner, we’re featuring several guest bloggers with unique perspectives on our Born to Run 50th anniversary events. Here, Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music student worker Cameron Bacon writes about the Blue Hawk Records re-interpretation of Born to Run. How does a group of 20 somethings (or younger […]

Promotional graphic for the event "Wasn't That A Time" taking place on September 27 in MA

Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music and Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame Presents “Wasn’t That a Time: The Boston Folk Revival 1958 – 1965”

Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame and Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music Presents “Wasn’t That a Time: The Boston Folk Revival 1958 – 1965” One-Day Symposium September 27, 2025, at the Arrow Street Arts Center (Boston) The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music is partnering with The Folk Americana Roots […]

Born to Run 50th Anniversary Symposium Photo - Academic Conference

Curatorial Corner – We Learned More From a 39-Minute Record…

This week in the Curatorial Corner, we’re featuring several guest bloggers with unique perspectives on our Born to Run 50th anniversary events. Here, author and educator Caroline Madden writes about our academic conference on 9/7/25. One of the many exciting events celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bruce Springsteen’s 1975 album Born to Run this past […]

Born to Run 50th Anniversary Event at Monmouth University. Photo by Mark Krajnak

Curatorial Corner – A Great Day in West Long Branch

This week in the Curatorial Corner, we’re featuring several guest bloggers with unique perspectives on our Born to Run 50th anniversary events. First up is Mark Krajnak, who photographed many of the events for the Archives, writing specifically about our symposium on Saturday, 9/6/25.  That was amazing! That was incredible! That was once-in-a-lifetime. Or simply…. […]

Springsteen in Long Branch exhibit. August 2025. Courtesy City of Long Branch

Curatorial Corner – Greetings from Long Branch, NJ….

When asked what New Jersey towns they associate with Bruce Springsteen, most people would probably say Freehold (where he was raised) or Asbury Park (where the rich music scene so inspired him as a budding musician). But Springsteen’s history with the city of Long Branch also runs deep. It’s a connection worth exploring while we […]

Born to Run 50: Photographs by Eric Meola. September 2025. Photo by Mark Krajnak.

Curatorial Corner – “Our adventure began with that double-wide photo, taken by Eric Meola, in the window of every record store in America.” – Bruce Springsteen

Born to Run is widely regarded as the album that saved Bruce Springsteen’s career and established him as one of the defining voices of American music. Before its release, the future of Bruce’s career was uncertain. Though he had been hailed by Columbia Records as a promising new talent and called a potential successor to […]

Adele Springsteen scrapbook. Photo by Mark Krajnak

Curatorial Corner – Born to Run at 50

As we at the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University embark on nearly a week’s worth of events celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bruce Springsteen’s landmark 1975 release, Born to Run, we want to take a moment to reflect on the album’s significance – not just to Springsteen’s trajectory,  but […]

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Echoes Across the Border: Laurel Canyon Film Screening

Join us on Sunday, October 5 for a matinee screening of Laurel Canyon. The 2020 documentary gives an up-close look at the lives of the musicians who inhabited Laurel Canyon, painting an intimate portrait of the artists who created a music revolution that would change popular culture. This film screening is part of the Echoes Across the […]

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Echoes Across the Border: Laurel Canyon and the Northern Connection (Music Summit and Film Screening)

In collaboration with the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music (BSACAM), the National Music Centre (NMC) brings notable speakers to Calgary to explore the cultural synergies between Canadian and American music. Echoes Across the Border: Laurel Canyon and the Northern Connection brings together industry leaders to discuss how cross-border Canadian-U.S. influences have shaped generations of artists, […]

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