Today we talk about Bruce Springsteen’s latest music deal, the How I Met Your Father trailer, and Turnstile on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Bruce Springsteen Sells His Music Musical legend Bruce Springsteen has set the record for largest musical deal to date by selling his entire catalog to Sony. According to Billboard, after negotiations the deal went down for $500 million. Universal was also in the running for the deal but ultimately Sony outbid them. Springsteen has had several multi platinum records and continues to make millions off of his music. He was actually signed with Sony’s Columbia Records… Read more »
“Bleachers are fucking back.”
Sit down… and listen to the greatest singer songwriter for the last 4 decades. We won’t just listen to Springsteen’s top 40 hits… we will dive much deeper than that. There is a reason they call him The Boss, and I’ll show you why!… Enjoy!
The Boss thinks it’s high time that gay marriage came to the Garden State, Bruce Springsteen stated unequivocally on his Web site.
The hour-long Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band special airs at 9 p.m. ET/PT Friday (February 28) on CBS-the same night the group’s tour resumes in Duluth, Georgia. The broadcast, taken from a show in Barcelona last October, will feature a number of songs from The Rising, including the title track, “Lonesome Day,” “You’re Missing,” and “Waiting On A Sunny Day,” as well as older material such as “Darkness On The Edge Of Town.” E Street Band guitarist Little Steven said that Bruce Springsteen and company were very pleased with how the show-which was originally broadcast live in Europe-turned… Read more »
There are conflicting reports as to whether Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band recently spent time in an Atlanta recording studio. A spokesperson for Southern Tracks Recording revealed, “We’d love to have ’em,” while denying a report from the Backstreets fanzine that Springsteen and company had been laying down new tracks at the facility. Springsteen’s representative revealed that no information was available regarding current recording plans. However, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution confirms that Springsteen was in the city for about eight days. In addition, E Street Band singer-guitarist Nils Lofgren-interviewed last Friday (February 1) by author, syndicated columnist, and radio… Read more »
What’s one way to ensure your mega music festival is well attended in the middle of a recession? Book a reunited Phish. The jam band’s legions of ardent followers sell out arenas in minutes, so with little difficulty they will flood the Tennessee fields of the Bonnaroo Music Festival, which begins Thursday and runs through Sunday. In its eighth year, Bonnaroo – arguably the country’s biggest festival – will have a distinctive Phish flavor. Oh, and a guy named Bruce Springsteen is playing, too. With that lineup, organizers expect that tickets to sell without a hitch along the way, in… Read more »
Bruce Springsteen’s “Working On A Dream” topped the weekly album charts with 224,000 first week sales according to Nielson Soundscan. But his concert fans were at the center of a controversy sparked by a Ticketmaster campaign pointing buyers to higher priced seats at their own resales broker TicketsNow even while regular seats were still available. The fans and Springsteen camp cried fowl. “Some artists or managers may not perceive there to be a conflict between having the distributor of their tickets in effect ‘scalping’ those same tickets through a secondary company like TicketsNow – we do,” the boss and his… Read more »
The Fray just demoted the Boss. One week after Bruce Springsteen scored the first No. 1 debut of the year, the Denver rockers displaced him with their eponymous sophomore release. The Fray sold 179,000 for the week ended Sunday, per Nielsen SoundScan to 102,000 for Springsteen’s Working on a Dream at No. 2. The Fray’s breakthrough debut, How to Save a Life, never cracked the Top 10, but the success of singles like “Over My Head (Cable Car)” and the title track pushed sales of the 2005 release north of 2 million. The Fray leads at radio with “You Found… Read more »
Bruce Springsteen has castigated Ticketmaster after it encouraged US fans to buy tickets online for one of his gigs at inflated prices. The Boss also put the boot in about any possible merger between Ticketmaster and concert promoter Live Nation, declaring that such a move would “make the current ticket situation even worse for the fan”. Springsteen, his manager Jon Landau and the entire Springsteen tour team claimed on the Brucemeister’s website that such a move would lead to “a near monopoly situation in music ticketing”. Officials in Connecticut and New Jersey are launching investigations into Ticketmaster’s sales practices, following… Read more »
