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You got to hear some snippets from Bruce Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball in the official video from the Sony press event in France, and it won’t be long before you start hearing them in their entirety. E Street Radio in the U.S. and absoluteradio.com in the UK (although it appears the stream is available in the U.S. as well) will each be playing a song per day from the new album starting Monday, Feb. 20.
Check back to absoluteradio.com for times as they’re posted, and as for E Street Radio, 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. appear to be the times for the debuts. Of course, listening to one song at a time can’t compare to hearing the whole record at once, but that’s impossible for now, unless it were to be somehow, you know, leaked. That’s not a hint or anything. Regardless, the album will be in your hot little ears before long.
Meanwhile, the man himself has spoken to Rolling Stone about the record. Remember one post back when we said it felt like it might have a lot of common with Nebraska? That’s what he said:
Two years ago Bruce Springsteen told Rolling Stone that he had just written his first song about a “guy that wears a tie.” The songwriter had spent much of his career writing about characters struggling in tough economic times, but the financial crisis convinced him it was time to write about the people and forces that brought America to this ugly point.
The result was Wrecking Ball, a scathing indictment of Wall Street greed and corruption and a look into the devastation it has wrought. “This is as direct a record as I ever made,” Springsteen tells Rolling Stone. “That’s with the possible exception of Nebraska, which this record has a lot in common with.”
Rolling Stone already seems smitten with the album, which means, given the 5 stars out of 5 that it gave to Working on a Dream, they’ll probably have to come up with an entire new rating scale for this one. I’m predicting 8 1/2.
And finally, coverage of Springsteen’s Paris jaunt continues to roll in. There’s plenty to choose from, but one of the best has to be this piece in The Guardian, focusing on his disappointment about “what was done” to America:
“What was done to our country was wrong and unpatriotic and un-American and nobody has been held to account,” he later told the Guardian. “There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.”
Which is often best kind, in our opinion. More to come …
Springsteen fans can follow along as our Blogness on the Edge of Town bloggers — Pete Chianca, Deb Filcman, Leann Pomaville, Anne Haines, Susan McDonald, Rocco Coviello and Sarah Wexler — offer up pithy commentary, breaking news, audio and videos, along with links galore to interesting articles, news items and discussions, all about “The Boss,” Bruce Springsteen, and other relevant rock music topics.
