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March 2012
The Archives
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03.14.12The Gripes of WrathAnd completing a triptych of Bruce-related posts, here's our review of Wrecking Ball, published in the current HP: Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball (Columbia) Let us now praise angry old men. Bruce Springsteen’s 17th album Wrecking Ball might be broadly described as set of 21st century protest songs inflamed by white collar grand larceny. Its memories are long – Bruce has mined these subjects for almost 40 years, in songs like ‘Badlands’, ‘The River’, ‘Atlantic City’ and ‘Youngstown’ – and its sense of context wide: from dust bowl refugees to Mexican migrants, from the flood necropolis of New Orleans to Detroit’s autogeddon, from the Great ...
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03.12.12The Times looked at JonnyApologies for the wrong steer re Springsteen on the Works. The review should run in or around March 22nd. Meanwhile, here's the NY Times report on Bruce's Apollo show last Friday. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/bruce-springsteen-apollo-theater-new-york/ And while you're in the vicinity, here's a fine piece by Alex Pappademas on Jonny Greenwood's scoring and orchestral work. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/magazine/jonny-greenwood-radioheads-runaway-guitarist.html
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03.07.12Wrecking Ball: The WorksWe'll be on RTE's The Works tomorrow night (Thursday 8th) talking to John Kelly about Bruce Springsteen's new album Wrecking Ball. Our full review will appear in tomorrow's issue of HP. Wrecking Ball live at Giant\'s Stadium
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03.05.12The Late William GayThe opening paragraph of the NY Times's obit report says it all: "William Gay, a self-taught novelist from rural Tennessee who emerged from obscurity in his late 50s with critically praised books in the Southern Gothic style, died last Thursday at his home, a log cabin in Hohenwald, southwest of Nashville. He was 70." More than a few of the Murphy clan were saddened to hear of his passing.