The singer’s song about the killings in Minneapolis translates private loss into a collective experience rapidly shared ...

Protest songs transform emotion into action, and Bruce Springsteen's anthem to Minneapolis is one in a long line of powerful ...

Today on Commotion, Slate columnist Carl Wilson and podcaster Vish Khanna join guest host Radheyan Simonpillai to talk about ...

Bruce Springsteen’s new anti-ICE anthem isn’t quite as bad as Paul McCartney’s ghastly post-9/11 anthem “Freedom.” Not quite. Still, he’s arguably done more than any other major artist to speak out ...

Musicians are giving voice to the urgency of Minneapolis. America has a long history of political protest in song.

We trace the lineage of rapid-response songs, from Woody Guthrie and Nina Simone to Bruce Springsteen's quick turnaround on "Streets of Minneapolis" ...

Deliver Me From Nowhere. Picture: 20th Century Studios/Macall Polay. Springsteen, struggling with depression, begins ...

American rock-and-roll icon Bruce Springsteen released a new single this week, his first original material since 2020’s ...

Let’s be honest: Music biopics are rarely distinct from one another. You can practically hear the voice-over: From humble origins, an artist will shock the world with some of the greatest songs ever ...

A number of legacy artists have made headlines of late for selling their catalogs in blockbuster deals worth hundreds of millions. The latest to hand over their reigns and rights is legendary artist ...

The event also revealed that Springsteen shared some of my initial hesitations about “Streets of Minneapolis.” He said that before releasing it, he’d sent it to Tom Morello, the former Rage Against ...

Originally published Sept. 15, 1988 in the Bergen Record. One was a wiry, white Oklahoma singer-songwriter who tapped into the struggles of those made homeless by drought and the Depression. The other ...