The Blood Brothers and Video Anthology DVDs are now available in stores in the US. So far the reaction from fans has been mixed. While it's nice to have the videos from the Nineties on the Anthology, many complain about the sloppy liner-notes with several factual and spelling errors, the edits in the "Rosalita" and "Leap of Faith" videos, and the fact that the disc ends with seven rather gloomy selections. It's still uncertain when exactly the DVDs will be available in Europe and Australia. In some countries it may not be until March while others may see them this month. Read more about the DVDs on Sony's official Springsteen site. Read more

   

According to Sydney Daily Telegraph, Bruce will tour Australia in November. They quote the Australian promoters as saying that it's 100% certain. Of course, that's also what the promoters said last year about a tour in early 2001. That tour is definitely down in the drain Read more

   

The signs that a live album is in the works for an April release get better and better. Today Wall of Sound quoted inside sources at Sony as saying that a single live album would be out in the spring, probably April and that it would consist of material culled from the Madison Square Garden stand and focusing on the new songs performed there such as "American Skin" and "Further On Up the Road". The article also mentions that the much-rumored and talked-about live DVD is scheduled to coincide with the live album. Read the whole story. Read more

   

A new Bruce book has seen the light of day. "Hungry Heart, the Music of Bruce Springsteen" by Jeff Horn is not your average Bruce bio, but focuses mostly on his songs and albums. The author, a Springsteen fan himself, has been writing about music since 1978, but this is his first non-fiction book. Read more about it on Amazon's site. Read more

   

Now fans of photographer and ex-Springsteen girlfriend (1978), Lynn Goldsmith, can view her some of her work on a new gallery website. So far the site has 20 samples of her work including a cool shot of Bruce in his car c. 1978 along with an audio commentary. Read more

   

It's that time again. Every music media worth the name has its share of "Best of 2000" awards or "Best of the Millenium" awards. In the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine the Classic Pop Song Poll has been settled with "Born to Run" being the winner in the Rollingstone.com website visitor poll (good job, everybody!). Also "American Skin" makes it to number two in the critics choice for best single. Quite interesting considering the fact that the song hasn't been recorded, let alone been released as a single. Is this a nice gesture from the critics or another clue that Rolling Stone is clueless? In return, the Born to Run album only made it to number 27 on VH1's Top 100 albums in rock'n'roll history. Darkness came in at #68. The list was allegedly made by musicians, music executives and journalists. Our comment? These polls don't mean a thing! Well, except in Hartford, where Bruce's May 9 show at the Civic Center was number one on the Hartford Courant's annual Top Ten Concerts of the Year. Read more

   

According to a post on the LuckyTown Digest, one of Bruce's attorneys, Larry Shyer, is investigating the possibilities of having a two-hour concert film from Madison Square Garden sold to HBO or a network channel. And another post confirms what we have previously said on this page about a Bruce Springsteen, Live at Madison Square Garden CD release on March. Read more

   

An article in the December issue of American Cinematographer suggests that "Sad Eyes" will be used in upcoming low-budget independent movie, A Million Miles. The Jersey Shore filmmakers, Ben Carney and Brian Sipe, allegedly got permission from Bruce to use the song, just as Little Steven may also have contributed to the soundtrack with an as yet unknown song. Read more

   

A Sony representative has allegedly revealed that March 2001 will see the release of Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Live at Madison Square Garden. Whether this is the much talked about DVD or a normal CD is not known, and altogether this should definitely be taken with a grain of salt. Read more

   

Sony Music has announced the DVD releases of Video Anthology 1978-00 and Blood Brothers. The release date for both these discs is January 16, 2001. Video Anthology will be a double DVD featuring all Bruce's promotional videos plus several never before seen items. At the same time Sony has re-launched the official Bruce Springsteen website where you can read more about the DVDs. Read more