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, “And you know I love Springsteen, faded blue jeans…” Because what’s more American than Bruce Springsteen and faded blue jeans!? Where am I going with […]
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 both his set list and his political comments from the stage are getting tremendous attention online. But we at the Bruce Springsteen Center are a […]
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, is most interested in watching football when Taylor Swift is in the stadium. Suffice it to say, this weekend, I was mostly thinking about the […]
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 crowd during the Q&A portion: Bruce’s earliest professional recordings were made in the Jersey Shore town in 1966. It’s true and, of course, we here […]
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 Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University has announced that it will move forward under a new name: The Bruce Springsteen Center for […]
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 the process can be, it’s also a moment that makes me reflect on why museums do this work in the first place. This very special […]
The Light of Day Foundation, Inc., utilizes the awesome power of music to raise money and awareness in our continuing quest to end Parkinson’s disease and related neuro-degenerative diseases, specifically Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), within our lifetime. The Foundation’s mission is to fund research into possible cures, improved treatments and […]
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 music over the past 250 years. Music America: Iconic Objects from America’s Music History will open February 12, 2026, at the Boch Center Wang Theatre. […]
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 door on a cultural experiment that fundamentally changed how Americans discovered music, understood artists, and imagined the relationship between sound and image. For a generation—and […]
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 include Bob Hope’s Christmas shows. He’d been to one during his tour of duty, and it had a profound impact on him. It was something […]
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