L.A. Times - Entertainment — Most performers playing the major music festivals have to truncate their normal shows to fit hourlong time slots, but not Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band. more info

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Stereogum — The New Jersey native Sharon Van Etten has just joined the long, long list of indie types who have covered Bruce Springsteen. In her case, she did a soft, emotive solo-piano version of “Drive All Night,” a slow, grand centerpiece from The River. ... more info

ContactMusic — Bruce Springsteen thrilled fans at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Saturday (03May14) when he chugged back a beer offered to him by a... more info

Stereogum — On Bruce Springsteen’s miserable, charged-up 1978 masterwork Darkness On The Edge Of Town, “Candy’s Room” starts out as a tense sputter about a girl before exploding into a sunburst melody about a girl. And now Syracuse noise-punks Perfect Pu... more info

The Telegraph — Exclusive: listen to a digital stream of Bruce Springsteen and others covering songs by Jackson Browne more info

Stereogum — On Record Store Day this past weekend, Bruce Springsteen released American Beauty, a new four-song EP on which he played almost every instrument. (We posted the early track “Hurry Up Sundown.”) Springsteen and his E Street Band were playing a sho... more info

Stereogum — Neil Young released a new album today featuring covers of songs from Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, and more. A Letter Home was recorded at Jack White’s Third Man studies and was self-described as “retro-tech” because Young record... more info

Stereogum — Courtney Love started her own YouTube channel earlier this year, and it was only a matter of time before she got out of pocket with it. Last week, she watched Bruce Springsteen induct his E Street Band into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, and yesterd... more info

Stereogum — One of the most notable exclusives coming out this Record Store Day is American Beauty, an EP of four new songs from Bruce Springsteen. One of those songs is “Hurry Up Sundown,” a simple and charged old-school bar-rocker with a few flashes of Spr... more info