The Rising receives five out of five stars (or rather wasps) in Sweden's Expressen in a very early review yesterday. The reviewer, who a few weeks ago trashed the title track, calls the album Bruce's best since The River. "It consists of 15 brutally strong tracks, 15 human destinies with September 11 as the common denominator", the reviewer.... Read more

   

Most of the shows that went on sale yesterday were sold out in a matter of hours. Shows in East Rutherford, NJ, and at Madison Square Garden in New York took only about 15 minutes. For some of the shows, including Cleveland and Detroit, tickets remained available for more than 24 hours. Please note that even if shows appear to be sold out, tickets may show up within the next days and weeks when credit cards have been validated, so check out Ticketmaster's website where you can also see when the.... Read more

   

Last Wednesday Shorefire issued a press release announcing a new E Street Band tour that will include 46 cities in North America. There will only be one show in each city, including only one in Canada. In return, the tour will return to America next year for a new round. But before then both Europe and Australia will get their share of shows, Europe as early as October when the band will do a quick two-week stint in a few as yet unannounced cities, whereas Australia will have to wait until.... Read more

   

Both Los Angeles Times and the New York Times are marking the upcoming album release with high-profile articles about Bruce and the new album. In Los Angeles Times Robert Hillburn previews the album and talks to Bruce about it while the New York Times has a more extensive interview. Part of the interview is available in streaming audio on their.... Read more

   

No one probably doubted that Los Angeles would be included in the upcoming tour itinerary, but it will probably come as a surprise to many that the show (or shows) appear to be planned for the Great Western Forum in Inglewood where Bruce, to our knowledge, hasn't played since 1978. Still no info on the date(s). Read more about Bruce and Los Angeles on the Los Angeles Bruce Springsteen Fan.... Read more

   

According to New York Daily News from a couple of days ago, an additional two hours of music not shown on the July 30 Today Show will be aired on VH1 instead later on. Meanwhile there is also talk of two additional warm-up shows in Asbury Park on July 28 and 29. We'll keep you.... Read more

   

For several weeks there has been talk of one or more warm-up shows in Asbury Park before the real tour kicks in. The first concrete bit of information can now be found on the website of LA based radio station, Star 98.7. There you can win a trip for two people to Asbury Park to see an alleged show on July 26. Apparently, this is mostly for LA residents, but if there's any truth to this, other radio stations in the US, and perhaps around the world, will probably soon join in and offer up ticket.... Read more

   

Sony representatives at at least one of last night's listening parties informed the fans that the upcoming tour would begin with single night stands in selected cities in the US, and that later on more shows in 3000 seat theatre-like venues would be added. If this is indeed true, it would be the first E Street Band shows in such small venues since the Darkness tour in.... Read more

   

The new album has received a very mixed response from fans attending the so far three listening parties that took place last night in Austin, Boston and Cleveland respectively. Different songs were played each place, and while few reports have been ecstatic there seems to be a consensus that this is an album that will need to listen to many times to make it grow on you. More listening parties are arranged in the next couple of.... Read more

   

Once again there's talk of an imminent tour announcement, maybe as early as tomorrow, Thursday. There are even consistent rumors about what the first leg of the tour is going to look like. According to the rumors, the tour will kick off in Boston on August 9 and will continue through September, including a birthday show in New Jersey. But there is still a lot of doubt as to whether these rumors are true. Other sources are confident the tour will open in Phoenix, Arizona. Only time will.... Read more