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 ...

The Boss flicks the switch on the time machine, taking us back to a moment when E.T. was flying high at the box office, Michael Jackson's Thriller was hot, and Ronald Reagan had the top job. At the ...

To tie in with his biopic, Deliver Me from Nowhere, a new box set from Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition, is out. On the surface, it looks like another cheap cash grab from a legacy ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. In the United Kingdom, the two albums are counted separately, and ...

In a risky career move, Springsteen turns introspective, digesting the short stories of Flannery O’Connor and Howard Zinn’s “People’s History of the United States.” The result is 1982’s “Nebraska,” ...

When Bruce Springsteen’s longtime manager, Jon Landau, was asked about the legendary “Electric Nebraska” tapes, he reportedly said, “The right version of ‘Nebraska’ was released.” And guess what?

What you hear first is the hiss, the high frequency “sshhh” produced by analog magnetic tape recordings. It is less sound than the ghost of sound, an unpitched hum at the top of the audio spectrum.

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 ...

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 ...