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September 16, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: The Bruce Springsteen Grinning-Statue Show
Bruce Springsteen is a craftsman, hell of a writer but fuck all that chest-puffing and that stupid-ass grin. Gimme Paul Kelly with his mortician’s grimace, his songs for the ages and the usual Australian lack of self-doubt. It’s not a competition but Bruce Springsteen is auditioning for his own statue, and Paul Kelly is doing […]Archive
August 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Cowboy Junkies: All That Reckoning
Cowboy Junkies All That Reckoning Latent Records For over 30 years now the Cowboy Junkies has been allowing its music to waft past, set to permanent slow-burn, they’re like an alt-folk Crazy Horse. Theirs is a deceptively angry music too, that soft coo of Margo Timmins’ voice could, so often, be telling you the most sweet and beautiful […]Archive
December 29, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Springsteen On Broadway: Film
Springsteen on Broadway Director: Thom Zimny Netflix Bruce Springsteen has been playing the role of Bruce Springsteen for far longer than he was ever actually “Bruce Springsteen”. Now, the same is true of a lot of the famous rock’n’rollers that grew up out of that era and firmly in public. Sir Paul of Macca is […]Archive
September 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 371
Bruce Springsteen, Born To Run (1975) Maybe this is the very best – and the very worst of Bruce Springsteen all in one. I mean, we open with Thunder Road which is his none-more-perfect song; a song So-Springsteen that any of the other “next Bob Dylans” have framed their copies of the lyric sheet with […]Archive
April 30, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Little Steven: Soulfire
Little Steven Soulfire UMe On an album that features very little resembling either ‘soul’ or ‘fire’ we have erstwhile Southside Johnny/Miami Steve – now better regarded for his acting performances (Sopranos/Lillyhammer) and best known – always – as the “Little Steven” that struts and, er, frets for hours on stage next to The Boss, his […]Archive
April 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Driving in America: A Soundtrack For Your Voyage(s) in The United States
Music is with me every step of every day – and on my first visit to America I was amazed to see Grateful Dead CDs in every house that I visited. I figured it to be a bit like finding Dave Dobbyn or Crowded House or Bic Runga or Exponents CDs in New Zealand homes. […]Archive
February 16, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Ryan Adams: Prisoner
Ryan Adams Prisoner Blue Note The best anyone can want for (and from) Ryan Adams these days is consistency. And he finds it here – perhaps ironically – when contemplating the recent upheaval of a failed marriage. Prisoner, arriving nearly two decades later, is the flip-side, in some ways, to debut solo album Heartbreaker. You […]Archive
February 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 48 – James Robinson
Welcome to episode 48 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. A chat with Kiwi-born, American-based writer James Robinson. He had a blog on Stuff.co.nz – which he turned into a book. The blog – and then the book – looked at life in America and perceptions of America; the way we, as […]Archive
September 29, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Bruce Springsteen: Chapter & Verse
Bruce Springsteen Chapter & Verse Columbia Timed and themed as a companion volume/soundtrack to the brand new memoir this compilation isn’t quite a Greatest Hits but features quite a few hits, it reels in the Springsteen fans due to a handful of previously unreleased/hard-to-get pre E-Street baby-steps from The Boss. Most of it is one-listen […]Archive
September 12, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band: Two NZ Shows (Feb, 2017)
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will play two shows in New Zealand in February, 2017. On tour in Australia for a month-long stay the two NZ shows will see Springsteen and band perform in Christchurch at the AMI Stadium on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the Christchurch earthquake, Feb 21 and […]Archive
March 7, 2016 by Simon Sweetman