Video: "Life Itself"

Santa Claus is coming to town

"Life Itself", new single off Working on a Dream

This is the cover art for "Life Itself", Bruce Springsteen's third single off the album Working on a dream. The song will be available for download at Amazon on December 28th.

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band at the Superbowl
Watch the official video announcement, with images from the Magic Tour:

The Hope Concert

Merry Xmas Baby


Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out

Springsteen tells how "Working on a dream" was created

Check out Bruce's new message in his official website, where he tells the story of how his new album was created and recorded.

"...our producer Brendan O'Brien said, "Hey, let's make another one right now!" I thought, no, I haven't done that since my first two records came out in the same year. And usually I don't write that quickly".

Read the full message.

Springsteen guests at Bobby Bandiera's Hope Concert

Bobby Bandiera and his friends had a special, unnanounced guest last night at his "Hope Concert". Bruce Springsteen showed up at the end of the show, jumped onstage and stayed there for about thirty minutes. Bruce sang classic Christmas songs ("Merry Xmas Baby", "Santa Claus is Coming to Town") plus a mix of covers and some of his own songs. Jon Bon Jovi helped on "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" while Southside Johnny and Gary US Bonds joined for the final "Havin' a Party".

Read more details and complete set list.

Springsteen to release new "Greatest Hits" package

On January 13th Bruce Springsteen will release another compilation album titled "Greatest Hits". But this time it is a 12-track album of songs recorded with The E Street Band (who are credited on the cover) which will be exclusively sold thru Wal-Mart in the United Stated.

Despite the coincidence in the album's title, this new compilation features a totally new and unique cover photo, with Bruce sitting on a Harley Davidson motorcycle.

Song list for "Greatest Hits" Wal-Mart:

1. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
2. Born To Run
3. Thunder Road
4. Darkness On The Edge Of Town
5. Badlands
6. Hungry Heart
7. Glory Days
8. Dancing In The Dark
9. Born In The U.S.A.
10. The Rising
11. Lonesome Day
12. Radio Nowhere

Springsteen at Bonnaroo?

Though no official tour dates have been announced for 2009, rumours are spreading fast about possible Springsteen concerts in summer festivals. According to Rolling Stone Bruce will perform at Bonnaroo on its closing night. Other sources take for granted Springsteen and the E Street Band will play at Bonnaroo. Phish are said to headline the festival on two consecutive nights. The festival is held in Manchester, Tennessee from June 11th to 14th.

Working on a Dream samples at Amazon

Amazon offers 30 seconds of each song off the new album Working on a Dream, to be released January 27th 2009. The samples are short but you can get an idea of the sounds on the new album.

Meanwhile the song "The Wrestler", which Bruce wrote for the film of the same name, has been nominated as "Best original song- Motion Picture" for a Golden Globe award. The awards ceremony will be aired live on NBC on January 11th, 2009.

Working On A Dream cover art

"Working on a dream" & "My Lucky Day" videos

The swiss website "Blick" has released a video of the making of the song "Working on a dream", filmed at Brendan O'Brien's studio during the recording sessions of the song.

Click on the image to watch the video.

Simultaneously, Sony has published the video for "My Lucky Day" in their myspace page. You can see it here:

My Lucky Day