What's going on (Superbowl) Sunday?
AT 9 o’clock on a recent morning Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band were already half an hour into a rehearsal at the rock club Terminal 5 in Manhattan. As N.F.L. executives and a television production team watched, they were tightening their miniset of four songs — dropping verses, streamlining segues — to fit their 12-minute slot as the halftime entertainment Sunday at Super Bowl XLIII, expected to reach tens of millions of viewers.
“My take on the Super Bowl?” Mr. Springsteen said after rehearsal. “Fundamentally it’s a 12-minute party.”
Few musicians anywhere consummate symbolic occasions and mass events better than Mr. Springsteen. He’s used to working on a stadium scale, and for decades his concerts have been nonstop singalongs that perfectly embody the yearning for community in his lyrics. In an era when pop hits can be as ephemeral as a deleted MP3 file, Mr. Springsteen has spent much of his career laboring to write durable songs about American dreams, from “Born to Run” to “Promised Land.” [NY Times]
today in NYC
* DANCE
* Curumin @ Nublu
* Metallica, Machine Head & The Sword @ Prudential Center
* Thurston Moore & Mats Gustafsson, John Olson w/ Okkyung Lee & C.Spencer Yeh, more @ Glasslands
The show that was supposed to be at Vanishing Point tonight was cancelled moved to Silent Barn.
Tickets are on sale for the shows Paul Simon is playing at the Beacon Theatre.
Someone told me that Metallica will be showing the Superbowl on a screen at the show tonight. Someone else told me that Metallica was at The Sword show at Bowery Ballroom last night.
Bruce Springsteen is playing the Super Bowl Halftime show.
Springsteen says Wal-Mart album deal was mistake.
Springsten going on tour.
Bruce performing “This Land is Your Land” in 1985, in the video below…
Aretha Franklin‘s Inauguration Hat May Be Kept In Museum
Aa played Death By Audio last night. Video from that below…
Mahogany played Santos Party House on January 27th. Video from that below…
What else?
Bruce Springsteen: THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND (September 30, 1985)
Aa (BIG A little a) | NYC @ Death By Audio | Jan 31 2009
Mahogany – Night Time In Silk City
