There are good albums and great albums, and then there are holy records - worlds you enter as if into a dream and emerge with spirit and neurochemistry changed. Bruce Springsteen's 1982 classic ...

Boxed sets celebrating classic rock albums offer the joy of discovery, in all those abandoned alternate versions being brought into the light as bonus tracks, but usually also some simultaneous ...

When Bruce Springsteen started recording a batch of new songs on a four-track tape machine in his New Jersey bedroom in January 1982, he wasn’t planning to release them as his next album. The acoustic ...

A new 37-track boxed set released alongside a biopic tracking the making of his 1982 album underscores how sometimes a musician’s first recording is the right one. By Jon Pareles Demo-itis. That’s the ...

In the words of Oklahoma native Paul Harvey, now we know the rest of the story. Bruce Springsteen's 1982 lo-fi classic “Nebraska,” recorded in the bederoom of his former Lincroft home on a four-track ...

In “Atlantic City,” Bruce Springsteen sings “Everything dies, baby that’s a fact. But maybe everything that dies someday comes back.” He never could have known that more than 40 years after releasing ...

ASBURY PARK, NJ − One of Bruce Springsteen’s most iconic songs almost sounded extremely different. In 1981, writer and director Paul Schrader approached the Boss about writing the title track for his ...