September 26, 2026Writer, poet, and musician David Starkey, who also served as Santa Barbara’s 2009-2011 Poet Laureate, is the author of a recently published book in Sonicbond Publishing's on track......

September 25, 2026MS NOW, one of the news organizations that as of yesterday STILL were facing illegal White House bans, has announced that it will offer full, free streaming access to watch the sold-...

September 23, 2026Well, to paraphrase what he sang in theTunnel of Love outtake "Lucky Man," Bruce Springsteen's odometer rolls straight sevens today. And without a shred of the dark irony to be found...

September 20, 2026Start With Hello Week 2026 will begin tomorrow (Monday, September 21) in schools across the U.S. It is one of the key programs of Sandy Hook Promise, the anti-gun-violence organizati...

September 20, 2026This coming Friday night, after a successful launch earlier this month with Stevie Van Zandt and The Making of Sun City, The Bruce Springsteen Center For American Music will resume i...

September 19, 2026Next Wednesday, September 23, Bruce Springsteen - as well as his loved ones and many fans, ourselves included, of course - are set to celebrate his 77th birthday. But in a bit of ple...

September 15, 2026With all of the excitement surrounding the release of the Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band: Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour (Philadelphia Freedom Cut) film (Part 1,) I am ex...

September 14, 2026Okay, right off the bat, let's address that omission/misspelling stuff in the closing credits, concerning poor Max and Charlie, respectively...Coincidentally, this year just happens ...

September 8, 2026As per today's official announcement:Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band’s Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour has been called “one of the most unflinching acts of musical resistanc...

September 7, 2026The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music at Monmouth University will host Chuck Berry at 100: Exploring the Life, Music, and Legacy of an American Original, a daylong symposium...

September 7, 2026On Friday, Bruce Springsteen kicked off Labor Day Weekend 2026 with a very pleasant surprise indeed. The trailer for Land of Hope & Dreams Tour: Philadelphia Freedom Cut dropped, and ...

September 1, 2026While we've been diving deep recently on the subject of significant anniversaries this year, there is yet another major 2026 anniversary that should be remembered and celebrated appro...

August 31, 2026 First up, as promised in last Saturday's initial report, please click on this link (and/or his great photo below) to read our friend/contributing photographer/writer Mark Krajnak's com...

August 30, 2026[A NOTE FROM GREG DREW AND SHAWN POOLE: This long-planned anniversary feature of ours wouldn't be anywhere near as special as it now is, if our friends from Living Colour, Corey Glover ...

August 29, 2026...as per social-media posts from our friend/contributing photographer/writer Mark Krajnak and our friends at The Bruce Springsteen Center For American Music:We're looking forward to se...

August 25, 2026So shortly after the passing of Dave Marsh, we've lost another great man, who also happened to be one of Dave's close friends, and a key ally in their shared efforts to end hunger. Bill...

August 15, 2026We at Letters To You are very saddened to learn that Dave Marsh - the great critic, writer, Springsteen biographer, E Street Radio founder/host, and activist - died last night. Dave's w...

August 12, 2026The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music at Monmouth University will host a special screening of the 1985 documentary The Making of Sun City (expanded from the version initially ...

August 7, 2026The nugs.net "First Friday" Live Archives series resumes today with another great show from Bruce Springsteen's 2005 Devils & Dust Solo/Acoustic Tour: Buffalo, NY 2005, performed and rec...

July 29, 2026Bruce Springsteen speaking at the official dedication/ribbon-cutting event for The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music on June 6, 2026:"On my personal note, I gotta thank my beautiful wife of thirty-five years... I love you, baby... Without her, so much of this simply would not exist. Her love, her talent, her patience, her support... are essential to everything I do and that I have done. She is my heart, my soul. She has struggled, and she is my hero... and my favorite E St

July 28, 2026Last Friday, Bruce Springsteen and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick were honored as the first recipients of The American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU's) new Ralph Ellison Award fo...

July 16, 2026"Come on, rise up!" exhorts Bruce Springsteen in "My City of Ruins," originally written for his adopted and beloved hometown of Asbury Park, NJ. The seaside resort town has been strongly ...

July 14, 2026There's no better way to celebrate today's 114th anniversary of the birth of the late, great, and artistically immortal Woody Guthrie than to watch Greg Mitchell's recently released film ...

July 4, 2026Editor's note: Today is not only the U.S.A.'s 250th birthday. It is also Vietnam War veteran, author, speaker, activist, and organizer Ron Kovic's 80th birthday, and this year marks the 50...

July 2, 2026Happy Birthday to "Professor" Roy Bittan, who turns 77 today, and best wishes for many more Happy Birthdays to come. Y'know, you'd think that a guy known as the "Professor" would have gott...

July 1, 2026On the upcoming Independence Day holiday weekend, which also will mark the U.S. semiquincentennial, Bruce Springsteen and The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music at Monmouth Univer...

June 29, 2026Last Friday afternoon, I made my first return visit to The Bruce Springsteen Center For American Music. It was under very different circumstances than the very first time I got to visit t...

June 25, 2026On Tuesday June 30, the final day of Pride Month 2026, The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music will host a special - and free - panel-discussion event, entitled Voices of Pride: I...

June 22, 2026"Over here on E Street, we mourn the death of the great record man and close friend Clive Davis. At 22 years old, he changed my life when he signed me to Columbia Records. He treated me w...

June 21, 2026How fitting that this year, on his 75th birthday, Nils Lofgren's special day also falls on Father's Day. After all, Bruce Springsteen himself famously dubbed Lofgren onstage to be the E S...

June 17, 2026Bruce Springsteen certainly has come a long way from his days of playing supermarket grand openings with his early band The Castiles to the public opening of a new building named after hi...

June 14, 2026Below is our transcription of the narration provided by Bruce Springsteen for Thom Zimny's short introductory film The Ties That Bind: Bruce Springsteen’s American Music Journey, now play...

June 13, 2026Letters To You contributing photographer Mark Krajnak and I were fortunate to be granted a special advance tour of The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music's new building, almost t...

June 12, 2026As The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music's official public opening occurs this weekend, Letters To You is presenting a three-part series of reports on the recent events that hav...

June 10, 2026To paraphrase what was the tour's nightly closing song - Bob Dylan's "Chimes of Freedom" delivered in its Byrds-inspired arrangement - as we listen one more time and watch with one more l...

June 6, 2026On January 10, 2017, 35,000 items from the personal collections of Bruce Springsteen fans were gifted to Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. In the years since, the Univer...

June 4, 2026The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music doesn't officially open its doors to the public until June 13, but yesterday Letters To You's editor/publisher Shawn Poole and contributing ...

May 31, 2026"Philly, you killed it! This is the last night of our Land of Hope & Dreams Tour; it was good to be in Philadelphia. I want to thank our great crew and their fearless leader, George Travis...

May 28, 2026Last night, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band brought their Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour to its ultimate "speak-truth-to-power" venue: the Washington Nationals' baseball park in...

May 26, 2026Music journalist, critic, and author Erin Osmon's recently published book Won't Back Down: Heartland Rock and the Fight for America, couldn't have come along at a better time, especially w...

May 22, 2026Directly preceding The Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music's two-nights (and now sold-out) Music America: The Songs that Shaped Us concert events will be a unique, free concert cel...

May 21, 2026Last night, the penultimate episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert closed with Colbert introducing a musical performance by Bruce Springsteen. Before he began singing a solo-acousti...

May 18, 2026More than five decades have now passed between Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's mid-1970s performances in the small New York town of Geneva, as captured by photographer James Fuller...

May 12, 2026With Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's return to New York this week, there's no better time to check out James Fuller's beautiful, high-quality book of photos, Spirit in the Light: P...

May 10, 2026Just in time for Mother's Day 2026, our friend and Letters To You contributor Doug Bradley has published his latest book, All the Books She Never Wrote. It's a unique memoir about the spec...

May 4, 2026Happy-birthday wishes go out today to Sister Soozie Tyrell, fiddler extraordinaire and - as an essential member of the current Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour - now freedom fighter, t...

May 3, 2026Almost three years ago now, when this website was launched, I wrote an introductory "welcome" message as its editor/publisher. One of the things I touched upon was why Bruce Springsteen was...