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Express Tribune
05-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Springsteen's seven lost albums set to see daylight
Springsteen is known for hits like Born in the USA and I'm on Fire. PHOTO: FILE Seven of Bruce Springsteen's albums will not be dancing in the dark for much longer. According to Guardian, this June, the veteran singer will release Tracks II: The Lost Albums, a massive box set of seven previously unreleased records spanning 1983 to 2018. The set, arriving on seven CDs (or nine vinyl discs), will include 83 songs, with a staggering 74 making their official debut. Described by Sony Music as "rich chapters" of Springsteen's career, the albums were largely completed and shelved until the pandemic gave Springsteen the time to revisit and finish them. "I've played this music to myself and often close friends for years now," he said. "I'm glad you'll get a chance to finally hear them." These aren't just b-sides or demos. Unlike 1998's Tracks, which gathered rarities, Tracks II includes full, cohesive albums that trace creative pivots and sonic experiments across decades. Among the highlights are the LA Garage Sessions 83, raw working tapes leading up to Born in the USA, arguably Springsteen's greatest, though choosing one is no small feat considering the artist's stellar discography. Also featured are the Streets of Philadelphia Sessions, a 1990s experiment in drum loops, synths, and hip-hop textures. Of the songs fans can anticipate to enjoy, there is Faithless, a moody soundtrack to a film that was never made; Somewhere North of Nashville, a pedal steel-soaked country detour from 1995; and Twilight Hours, a lush, orchestrated pop companion to Western Stars. Add Inyo to the mix, which is a collection of "border tales" with tracks like The Aztec Dance and Ciudad Juarez. Springsteen rounds it off with Perfect World, a compilation of collaborations with Joe Grushecky. The album is anchored by the fierce Rain in the River, which has already been released, and can be heard and loved on all streaming platforms. In a video trailer, Springsteen pushed back against the idea of a "lost" '90s. "I really, really was working the whole time," he said. Alongside the music, the box set includes a 100-page book with rare archival photos and liner notes for each album. A curated 20-song sampler will also be made available separately. Now 75, Springsteen shows no signs of slowing down. As he prepares for a European tour in May, he promises to keep playing "until the wheels come off." And with Tracks II, fans are finally invited into the decades of hidden work he's long held close.
BBC News
04-04-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
'Seeing the King play a carrot recorder was surreal'
A community music leader said it was "surreal" to witness the King playing a carrot recorder at Windsor Revis, director of Sheffield Music School, was invited to a reception for hundreds of people who contribute to music in their local areas."I really want the people of Sheffield to know about the music here, and this raises our profile - I was so grateful to be invited," she said."There was a bit of a surreal moment… I was standing with champagne in my hand, turned around, and there was the King playing a carrot. You don't see that every day." The London Vegetable Orchestra brought instruments, including the carrot recorder, to the 350 guests included leaders of community music groups and music-related projects, many of whom are side effects from cancer treatment led the King to cancel a string of engagements last week, but he was described by guests as "in great spirits". As well as the school, Ms Revis directs Tracks, a project offering workshops and performance project had been struggling to fund all the services it wanted to offer, until Ms Revis made a successful bid to the Ed Sheeran Foundation earlier this grant will be used to set up a new youth club and take on more alternative provision visited the music school last May and took an interest in the Tracks project, which Ms Revis said was "incredible"."I'm a big Ed Sheeran fan - not just because he gave us money," she joked. Listen to highlights from South Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North
Sky News
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Sky News
Bruce Springsteen: The Boss to release seven 'lost' albums
Bruce Springsteen is to release seven albums of mostly unheard material this summer. The US singer said the songs, written and re-recorded between 1983 and 2018, were being made public after he began completing "everything I had in my vault" during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a short video posted on Instagram, Springsteen said the albums were "records that were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released". The 83-song collection is being released in a box set called Tracks II: The Lost Albums and goes on sale on 27 June. Some 74 of the tracks have never been heard before. Springsteen first teased the release on Wednesday morning with a short social media video accompanied by text which said: "What was lost has been found". Tracks II is the follow-up to the star's first Tracks volume, a four-CD collection of 66 unreleased songs, released in 1998. The New Jersey-born rocker, nicknamed The Boss, last released a studio album in 2022. Only the Strong Survive was a collection of covers, including songs by Motown and soul artists, such as the Four Tops, The Temptations, The Supremes, Frankie Wilson and Jimmy Ruffin. The late soul legend Sam Moore, who died in January and was a frequent Springsteen collaborator, sang on two of the tracks. Springsteen is coming to the UK in May to launch a two-month tour of Europe with his E Street Band. The shows will include performances at the Co-op Live in Manchester and Liverpool's Anfield stadium. The singer-songwriter has sold more than 140 million records since his debut on the music scene in 1973, according to his website.
BBC News
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Bruce Springsteen to release seven 'lost', but complete, albums in June
Bruce Springsteen is throwing open his archives to let fans hear seven completed, but never-before-released, recordings, which date from 1983 to 2018, will "fill in rich chapters of Springsteen's expansive career timeline - while offering invaluable insight into his life and work as an artist," said Sony them are working tapes from the sessions that led to rock classic Born In The USA, and an album that experimented with drum loops and synthesisers from the early 1990s."I've played this music to myself and often close friends for years now," Springsteen said in a statement. "I'm glad you'll get a chance to finally hear them. I hope you enjoy them." The music will be revealed on a box set of seven CDs (or nine vinyl discs), titled Tracks II: The Lost scale of the release is quite different from its predecessor, Tracks, whose four discs collected random off-cuts and b-sides from the first 25 years of Springsteen's to a press release, Tracks II will feature 83 songs, of which 74 have never been officially released in any of the tracks, including Fugitive's Dream and Don't Back Down on Our Love, have circulated on bootlegs for years, but will finally be heard in studio quality. Springsteen said the release had been made possible when the Covid-19 pandemic allowed him to "finish everything I had in my vault". Fans have known for years that Springsteen's vault contains hours and hours of unheard material. Speaking to Variety magazine in 2017, the star admitted: "We've made many more records than we released. Why didn't we release those records? I didn't think they were essential. "I might have thought they were good, I might have had fun making them... but over my entire work life, I felt like I released what was essential at a certain moment, and what I got in return was a very sharp definition of who I was, what I want to do, what I was singing about. "And I still basically judge what I'm doing by the same set of rules."In a video trailer for Tracks II, Springsteen added: "I often read about myself in the '90s as having some lost period or something. "And I really, really was working the whole time." First track released Fans will finally get to hear those "lost" songs in June. Springsteen said they would offer a glimpse into the home recordings he made after the commercial success of Born To Run and Born In The USA freed him from the pressure of using commercial recording studios."The ability to record at home whenever I wanted allowed me to go into a wide variety of different musical directions," he said in a statement. That includes the "sonic experimeentation" of Faithless, a film soundtrack to a movie that never got unreleased albums include the country-leaning Somewhere North of Nashville, cut in May 1995; and Twilight Hours, an orchestrated pop album that was written and recorded in the same period as 2018's Western are also the "richly-woven border tales" of Inyo, whose song titles - including The Aztec Dance and Ciudad Juarez - suggest a Latin American described the last disc, Perfect World, as "the one thing on this that wasn't initially conceived as an album", instead highlighting several songs he wrote with longtime collaborator Joe Grushecky in the 1990s and early a first taste of the collection, he released Rain In The River, from Perfect World, whose muscular drums and squalling feedback showcase the raw power of his regular backing band E Street Band. The announcement comes a month before Springsteen kicks off his European tour, with dates in Manchester, Liverpool, Marseille, Berlin and Prague, amongst 75-year-old recently vowed to keep playing live "until the wheels come off", but said he had scaled back his tours after his wife, Patti Scialfa, was diagnosed with myeloma, a rare blood cancer.
