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The Perfect '80s Playlist for a Wine-Splashed Affair

The popular music of the 80s had something for every music fan.There was the preening theatricality of hair metal and new wave, the sexy subversion of Prince and Madonna, the lighters-in-the-air stadium rock of Springsteen and AC/DC and the mellow escapism of new age and quiet storm.Hip-hop moved from good-time old school into its transformative golden age, the humanization of synthesizer-based music threatened to render instruments obsolete and MTV created mega-superstars while also driving people to discover ever-more-specific underground subcultures.

The Marginalian

Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness

It starts with a low hum that adheres itself to the underbelly of the hours like another dimension.

Chicago Tribune

Chicago summer events guide: Movies, music, TV and more

All of the Tribune's guides for summer 2023 dance, art, movies, music, TV, theater and more."The summer of '23 may be reliant on the customary franchises and name brands," Tribune critic Michael Phillips writes."But if a film as lovely and near-perfect as Celine Song's debut feature 'Past Lives' can likewise qualify as a summer picture, going by the June-August calendar, then a summer place sounds pretty good to me."

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Opinion | The Flaws of Perfection

I was in the car with my sons, listening to the Beach Boys.I picked some of my favorite songs: Wendy, Girl Don't Tell Me, Let Him Run Wild.But when I played another track I love, Wild Honey, the boys cocked their heads.Why did they put that out? one of them asked.The lead vocal sounded wrong to him.

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40 Chickens in 40 Days: How a Philadelphia Man Cheered His City

There was no confetti strewn across the streets of Philadelphia on Sunday morning, no chants of We are the champions, or whiffs of smoke from celebratory fireworks.The city had lost both the World Series and the Major League Soccer Cup final on Saturday in a span of about five hours.But at 12 p.m. on Sunday, at an abandoned pier along the Delaware River, a bearded man in a white sleeveless shirt sat at a makeshift table and stared intently at the plate as dozens gathered around.

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Robert Gordon, Punk Rocker Turned Rockabilly Revivalist, Dies at 75

Robert Gordon, a 1950s-influenced rocker with a silky baritone and towering pompadour who emerged from the New York punk underground of the 1970s to help stoke a rockabilly revival, died on Oct. 18 in a hospice in Manhattan.He was 75.His sister Melissa Gordon Uram said the cause was acute myeloid leukemia.

Truthout

Left-wing politics

Iowa Trans Teen Receiving Award From Gov. Kim Reynolds Shouts "Trans Rights Are Human Rights"

Reynolds has signed two anti-transgender bills into law this year, negatively impacting trans students in Iowa.Transgender high school senior Clementine Springsteen stands onstage between Lt. Gov. Adam Gregg (R) and Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) during the Iowa Governor's Scholar awards on April 30, 2023.The Iowa High School Athletic Association On Sunday, a transgender student in Iowa used an award ceremony as an opportunity to protest Gov. Kim Reynolds (R), who earlier this year signed two bills into law that attack trans kids across the state.

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Biden Brings the Stars to the White House

WASHINGTON Call it Celebrity Week at the White House.For the second day in a row, President Biden on Tuesday hosted a pack of famous figures from the arts and basked in the glow of the glamorous.A day after meeting with cast members from the hit show Ted Lasso, Mr. Biden bestowed National Medals of Arts and National Humanities Medals to a passel of acclaimed actors, musicians and writers including Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bruce Springsteen, Gladys Knight, Amy Tan and Colson Whitehead.

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Bruce Springsteen among those to be honoured with US National Medal of Arts

Bruce Springsteen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Vera Wang, and Mindy Kaling are among the famous faces set to receive top federal honours for their contributions to the arts.All four are named as recipients of the 2021 National Medals of Arts, due to be presented by US president Joe Biden at a ceremony on Tuesday.

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Bruce Springsteen, E Street Band to perform at Moody Center

AUSTIN, Texas It will be the "Glory Days" for Bruce Springsteen as he takes center stage at Moody Center Thursday night in Austin.Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are making a stop in Austin as part of their 2023 international tour.The Boss will be making stops across the nation before heading to Europe and then making a return to the states.

Vulture

The 10 Best Versions of 'Santa Claus Is Coming to Town'

There's exactly one criterion for a great performance of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town": Is it joyful?The tune is peak Christmas cheer, a song about the childlike glee the season can bring.It came at a time when the world could use it, composed during the Great Depression by J. Fred Coots and Haven Gillespie as a song to keep up spirits.

Consequence

Bruce Springsteen releases soul covers album Only the Strong Survive: Stream

Bruce Springsteen has unveiled his soul covers album, Only the Strong Survive.Stream it below via Apple Music and Spotify.The 15-track LP, which includes renditions of songs made famous by The Temptations, Aretha Franklin, and more, was recorded at Springsteen's New Jersey recording studio closely after 2020's Letter to You.

New York Daily News

Bruce Springsteen to appear on three episodes of 'Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon'

The Boss is gearing up for a few late shifts.Bruce Springsteen will be both the main and musical guest on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" next Monday through Wednesday on NBC.It will be the first takeover and first musical performance for the 73-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, though he's been on the program twice before.

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The Underrated Sayles: An Appreciation of Baby It's You on Its 40th Anniversary | Features | Roger Ebert

Forty years later, "Baby It's You" remains one of the most genuine coming-of-age stories.It is one of the few films to explore the liminal space between high school and adulthood."Baby It's You" captures an emotional time period that throws young people completely off their axes.

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Tips on Buying Tickets the Next Time Your Favorite Singer Is in Town

First: Hearing Bruce Springsteen live in concert last week was fantastic, and I'd buy tickets again.I paid nearly $175 apiece, including fees, last July for semi-nosebleed seats at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla., a few hours from where I live.Not bad, I thought at the time.And I got to see Mr. Springsteen, appearing fit and feisty, as he opened with No Surrender and then rocked his way through his catalog for about three hours.

The Atlantic

What's Lost in Bruce Springsteen's Soul Covers

Only the Strong Survive, his new album, feels like an act of role-playing.What is it about reaching their 70s that makes great songwriters want to sing old songs they didn't write?Paul McCartney reached backwards to pre-Beatles music and released an album of mostly Tin Pan Alley ditties, slipping in a couple of originals in the same style, in 2012, the year he turned 70.

amNewYork

Bruce Springsteen takes on Temptations, Supremes, Four Tops | amNewYork

Bruce Springsteen takes on the Four Tops, Temptations, Supremes, Frankie Wilson, Jimmy Ruffin and other soul legends in an album of cover songs due out next month.

Vulture

Bruce Springsteen's New Era Is All About Soul, Man

What a nice, cost-free treat for the fans.

Vulture

Uh-Oh, Jann Wenner Might Have Just Revealed a New Bruce Springsteen Album

"I'm kind of stuck with the music I liked when I was young," he shared.

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There's a new Bruce record coming out this fall, which is stunning.

Consequence

Bruce Springsteen unveils cover of Commodores' "Nightshift": Stream

Bruce Springsteen has shared his take on "Nightshift" by Commodores, a track from his upcoming soul and R&B covers album, Only the Strong Survive, along with an accompanying performance video directed by Thom Zimny.

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The 1975: Being Funny in a Foreign Language review a surprising but welcome paring back

Earlier this year, the 1975, Britain's most divisive arena-dwelling band, caused a minor ripple of controversy while announcing their fifth album.

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