The Rising, song as well as album, was nominated in five categories in the upcoming Grammy Awards show. The categories are: Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Male Rock Performance, Best Rock Song, and Best Rock Album. The 45th Grammy Awards will take place on February 23 in Madison Square Garden. No news on whether Bruce will be among the performers, but the odds are good, we'd say. Read more

   

Around this time of year it's custom to make predictions as to what's going to happen in the next 12 months. One of the more curious predictions comes from Irish top psychic Una Power. She predicts that Bruce Springsteen will lead a revolt against George W. Bush in 2003 and be asked to run as a political candidate. Power says if the Boss agrees to run, he will succeed. Take it for what it is. Read more

   

Canada seems to be getting a mini-tour all of their own. With April dates in Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, and Montreal, this is the most extensive dose of Bruce for the Canadians in recent years. Also a show in Sacramento, California, on April 9 seems to be in store. None of these shows have been officially confirmed yet, so they could be subject to change. See the complete tour itinerary as it looks now. Read more

   

After much speculation as to whether the US would get their first stadium shows since 1985, at least one source now says that all such plans have been canned. Instead after returning home from Europe, Bruce and the band are said to be planning on doing 10-15 shows at the Continental Airlines Arena in New Jersey. Take this with a grain of salt though. Most likely nothing is set in stone regarding next summer. Read more

   

Two new album releases should interest Bruce completists and other people with taste for a good rock album. First, Nils Lofgren is out with a new double live album recorded earlier in 2002 with his band, simply called Nils Lofgren Band Live. Read more about the album and order it on Nils' official site. Also, veteran Jersey Shore rockers Joe D'Urso & The Stone Caravan are finally ready with the follow-up to Rock and Roll Station. The new album is called Both Sides of Life and features Joe's cover of Bruce's "Badlands". Order it on D'Urso's official site. Read more

   

Yesterday afternoon, The Stone Pony in Asbury Park hosted Bruce's private Christmas party for specially invited people. Bobby Bandiera and his band worked as house band, but with Bruce on lead vocals on several songs. The set consisted of mostly covers of Christmas songs and other classics, but a few of Bruce's own tunes also made their way into the set, including "Darlington County" and ?"Glory Days". Read more

   

Bruce and the band wrapped up this year's touring activity last night in Indianapolis with a 24-song set. The setlist included the tour premiere of "Loose Ends" and a "Detroit Medley" revisit. The tour will resume next February. Read more

   

Springsteen's official website was updated today with three more shows on the spring US tour schedule. And you can now sense a pattern: with shows in Richmond VA, Jacksonville, FL, and Atlantic City, NJ, the next year's tour will focus on places where Bruce has never played or hasn't played in years. Although a strong early market for Bruce in the early Seventies, Bruce hasn't played in Richmond since 1975, and to our knowledge he never did an official show in Atlantic City. It's not yet known when tickets will go on sale. Read more

   

No tour premieres, but nonetheless a loose show in Columbus that among other things saw Bruce adding an impromptu coda of "Hang on Sloopy" to "Glory Days". The show also included "Out in the Street" and "Two Hearts" in place of "She's the One". Read more

   

Repeat performances of both "My Love Will Not Let You Down" and "This Hard Land" were the biggest highlights setlist-wise in last night's Albany show. At least until the very last song when much to everybody's surprised the band launched into a cover of Chuck Berry's "Around and Around". "Darkness on the Edge of Town" was also back and broke up the "You're Missing"/"Waitin' on a Sunny Day" combo for the first time on the tour. Read more