Bruce Springsteen

Exclusive Song: The Hold Steady Cover Springsteen Hear the Brooklyn rabble-rouser's spot-on rendition of "Atlantic City"! It's a no-brainer: The Hold Steady + Bruce Springsteen = absolute awesomeness. And you can hear it all below! For...

In this article: The Hold Steady, Atlantic City, Brooklyn, Heroes, Craig Finn, TV On The Radio, Atlantic City, and Nebraska

...much of Heroes feels like it needs new material in the gene pool. Of course The Hold Steady covers Bruce Springsteen, The Kooks take on The Kinks, and Elbow reprises U2. Still, most of these out-of-centerfield choices work well enough, and...

In this article: War Child Presents Heroes, Heroes, Do the Strand, Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat, Instant Karma, We Are the World, Adam Cohen, Mick Jones, Elbow, and Lily Allen

...from pancreatitis. The Hold Steady resume headlining shows (and opening a few for Counting Crows) in December, and contribute a cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Atlantic City" to the Heroes charity comp, out November 25. They also have a track...

In this article: The Hold Steady, Drive-By Truckers, Pancreatitis, Tad Kubler, Atlantic City, Wes Freed, Counting Crows, and Louisville, Kentucky

...to make room for maximum racket. The Hold Steady, meanwhile, restores all the vulnerability and drama into Bruce Springsteen's "Atlantic City" - a much-needed reminder of realness after that Super Bowl display. Even Lily Allen, left, manages...

In this article: Lily Allen, Barn Owl, Atlantic City, Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat, Straight to Hell, Super Bowl, Radio Shack, Mick Jones, Paul McCartney, and Ramones

Compilations for good causes THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING The Hold Steady (top) cover Springsteen on ''War Child Presents Heroes.'' Spoon plays on ''Dark Was The Night.'' If, as they say, imitation is the sincerest...

In this article: Heroes, E-mail, The Hold Steady, Bob Dylan, Cat Power, Feist, Red Hot + Rio, Appropriation, War Child Presents Heroes, and David Byrne

...Finn's Springsteen, animating the singer's street parables with florid flourishes. The Springsteen influence carries over into Nicolay's songs, both in the soul-searching street-opera narrative of "Nightratsong" and the overwrought...

In this article: Franz Nicolay, Hold Steady, Rumination, and Roy Bittan

...with Last. FM, is Brooklyn local band The Hold Steady. In our own words, these guys sound like the aural lovechild of Bruce Springsteen, Social Distortion, Joe Strummer, and Billy Joel. The music combines various instruments (banjos, organ,...

In this article: CNET, The Hold Steady, Guinness World Records, Billy Joel, Waste, CBS Interactive, and Itunes

...Emmerdale. The Chapters have been compared to several artists and bands by the Irish media, including The Blue Nile, Bruce Springsteen, The Cars, Fleetwood Mac, The Frames, The Hold Steady, Snow Patrol Sparks , and Talking Heads. The voice of...

In this article: Chapters, Talking Heads, Dublin, Dublin Area Rapid Transit, The Blue Nile, Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club, The Coronas, Kings of Leon, and Fleetwood Mac

...off his crackerjack bandmates. Throughout his career since, Springsteen has tried to recapture that sprawl, in songs that spread across landscapes and drag handfuls of lost people along in their wake. (It's this style that's proved...

In this article: Bob Dylan, Atlantic City, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, Anxiety, Thunder Road, The A.V. Club, E Street Band, The River, and Manfred Mann