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14-05-2025
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Bruce Springsteen Slams ‘Incompetent & Treasonous' Trump Administration at Tour Kickoff
Bruce Springsteen is proud to have been born in the U.S.A., but he's not particularly happy with its leadership right now. At the first show of his Land of Hopes and Dreams Tour in Manchester, England, the rock star slammed President Donald Trump's administration from the Co-Op Live stage Wednesday (May 14). 'The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock and roll, in dangerous times,' he told his cheering crowd moments after he walked on. More from Billboard Bruce Springsteen's 'Tracks II: The Lost Albums' Box Set To Feature Seven Never-Before-Heard Records Adam David Delivers Teddy Swims' 'Lose Control' on 'The Voice' as Finalists Are Set Blake Shelton Drops 'Texas' on 'Fallon,' Says Post Malone Fueled His Return 'In my home, the America I love, the America I've written about, and has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration,' he continued, as captured in a clip filmed by a concertgoer and posted to X. 'Tonight, we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experience to rise with us, raise your voices against the authoritarianism, and let freedom ring.' Springsteen went on to sing the trek's namesake song, 2001's 'Land of Hopes and Dreams,' which includes the lyrics: 'Dreams will not be thwarted/ Faith will be rewarded/ Hear the steel wheels singing/ Bells of freedom ringing.' The Boss has long been vocal about his opposition to the sitting president. In the 2024 election, Springsteen endorsed Trump's opponent, Kamala Harris, and four years prior, he opened up about his fears surrounding the twice-impeached POTUS' first bid for a second White House term back in the 2020 race. 'I believe that our current president is a threat to our democracy,' he told The Atlantic of Trump at the time. 'He simply makes any kind of reform that much harder. I don't know if our democracy could stand another four years of his custodianship. These are all existential threats to our democracy and our American way of life.' At Wednesday's show, Springsteen echoed these sentiments during a mid-show speech. 'In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world's poorest children to sickness and death,' he told fans before singing 'My City of Ruins.' 'And in my country, they are taking sadistic pleasure in the pain that they inflict on loyal American workers, they are rolling back historic civil rights legislation that led to a more just and moral society,' he continued. 'They are abandoning our great allies and siding with dictators against those struggling for their freedom.' The performance marks the first of several tour dates Springsteen and the E Street Band have scheduled this summer. After two more dates in Manchester, he'll perform at venues in France, Spain, Germany and Italy through the beginning of July. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
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14-05-2025
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Bruce Springsteen Jams With John Fogerty, Tom Morello, Smokey Robinson at American Music Honors
The American Music Honors, an annual event organized by the Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center, took place Saturday at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, this year honoring Smokey Robinson, John Fogerty, Emmylou Harris, Tom Morello, and Joe Ely. Every honoree with the exception of Joe Ely was on site to receive the award, as well as perform their classic songs with help from Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, Bruce Springsteen, and surprise guests Jackson Browne, Nils Lofgren, Nora Guthrie, and Darlene Love. In other words, an all-star event on par with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony was staged in front a mere 714 people on a college campus, and there's no plans to air it on television. Fortunately, phones were allowed, and there's lots of fan footage. (Let's give a special shoutout to Dr. Marty Jablow for his great camera work.) More from Rolling Stone Bruce Springsteen Shares Unreleased 'Blind Spot' From 'Tracks II: The Lost Albums' How Craig Finn Made the Seventies L.A. Record of His Dreams Brad Paisley on That Time Charley Pride Surprised Him at the White House Former NBC News anchor Brian Williams was the host for the evening, and Springsteen personally delivered the induction speeches for Ely and Fogerty. In a revival of some of the best moments from the 2004 Vote For Change tour, Springsteen performed the Creedence classics 'Bad Moon Rising,' 'Proud Mary,' and 'Fortunate Son' with Fogerty. Springsteen also covered Joe Ely's 1995 song 'All Just to Get to You,' and teamed up with Smokey Robinson for 'Going to a Go-Go,' Jackson Browne for 'Take It Easy,' and Tom Morello for 'The Ghost of Tom Joad' and 'Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out.' At the end of the night, everyone from the show came back onstage along with Darlene Love and Nora Guthrie for 'This Land Is Your Land.' The Woody Guthrie classic was a regular part of Springsteen's live show in the Eighties, but it's become a rarity these days. He last performed it in 2013. Next month, Springsteen and the E Street Band head over to Europe for a run of 16 stadium shows. And on June 27, Tracks II: The Lost Albums – a collection of seven complete records Springsteen recorded between 1983 and 2018 – is finally coming out after years of feverish anticipation. The Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere, staring Jeremy Allen White, is also due out before the end of the year. It focuses on the creation of 1982's Nebraska, and also stars Jeremy Strong, Paul Walter Hauser, Gaby Hoffmann, Marc Maron, and Stephen Graham. Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
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13-05-2025
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Don't Blame Cardi B For Delay Of 2nd Album, Blame Her No-Show Features: ‘I Need Y'all To Hurry Up!'
Here's the thing. It's not Cardi B's fault that her long-in-the-works sophomore studio album hasn't been released yet. At least that's what Cardi said during an Instagram Live session with fans this week, in which the rapper claimed that the real hold-up is the feature verses she's waiting on from her guests. 'I really need these f–king features,' she said in a repost of the session. 'And it's like I'm not really trying to press or go crazy on these artists because I love them down. But it's like come on now! I need that! I need that right now! Helloooo! Y'all don't want to miss this opportunity. I'll sing this s–t myself! But I really need y'all and I need y'all to hurry up and I love y'all. I feel like nobody want to miss being on this album.' More from Billboard Cardi B Appears to Confirm New Boyfriend, Describing a 'Fine' Man Who Loves Her 'From Head to Toe' Bruce Springsteen Releases Haunted Song 'Faithless' From Upcoming 'Tracks II: The Lost Albums' Box Set Is Rose from 'Gypsy' the Greatest Role in Broadway History? That's What Tony Awards History Suggests In an X Spaces chat on March 31 Cardi said, 'the features on my album are really good… I don't have a lot of features but I'm working with artists, some that I have worked before and some that I haven't worked before. And the ones that I have not worked before, I feel like it's gonna really, really surprise y'all.' In the Insta chat this week, she admitted to fans that she often doesn't 'feel too confident' about a lot of things, but that she's 'very confident' about the unnamed follow-up to her smash 2018 debut, Invasion of Privacy. 'These motherf–kers almost cried listening to my s–t,' she said of her team, noting that they told her there were 'no skips' on the album. 'It's iconic! This album is so good!' Cardi raved. 'I put my whole p–sy on it! I rapped with the bottom of my p–sy! So hurry up!' While Cardi did not specify who she is waiting on, she again encouraged them to get in the booth because, flipping her hair back and forth across her face she promised, 'this album is for the books!… Like, the production, the production, the feelings, the words, the rap… it's just, it's really there. Y'all not even understanding.' At press time no release date or track list for the untitled album had been announced. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
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01-05-2025
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Bruce Springsteen Releases Haunted Song ‘Faithless' From Upcoming ‘Tracks II: The Lost Albums' Box Set
Bruce Springsteen continued to preview his upcoming expansive box set Tracks II: The Lost Albums on Thursday (May 1) with the haunting ballad 'Faithless.' The song is described as the title track from a 'long-lost soundtrack to a movie that was never made.' Like so many of The Boss' iconic songs, this one takes us down to the river, where love is found. 'Well, I work by the rocks of the river/ Faithless, faithless, faithless/ Then I met you,' Springsteen sings in a hushed voice over gentle, high desert-style acoustic guitar backing. 'I walked 'neath the eaves of the garden/ Faithless, faithless, faithless/ Then I saw you,' he adds with a chorus of female voices echoing his own. More from Billboard Bruce Springsteen's 'Tracks II: The Lost Albums' Box Set To Feature Seven Never-Before-Heard Records Is Rose from 'Gypsy' the Greatest Role in Broadway History? That's What Tony Awards History Suggests 'Buena Vista Social Club,' 'Death Becomes Her' and 'Maybe Happy Ending' Lead 2025 Tony Award Nominations: Full List In a release announcing the song, it is called a 'meditation on purpose, belief and acceptance' that was originally intended to accompany a 'spiritual Western' film that never got made. Springsteen recorded much of the Faithless album between the end of the November 2005 Devils & Dust tour and the April 2006 release of the We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions album. The Faithless LP — one of seven previously unreleased albums included in the set due out on June 27 from Sony Music — has four instrumental songs that were written as interstitials for the film on a collection that is said to explore Springsteen's 'unique vision of spirituality in the mythic American West, while working inside of his uncharted artistic medium.' 'This was a really unusual collection of songs,' Springsteen said in a statement of the score album that was composed in a 'prolific' two weeks in Florida before a single frame of the movie was shot. 'You could recognize details and maybe a character or two. But for the most part, I just wrote atmospheric music that I thought would fit,' he said. Mostly recorded as a solo effort, Faithless features appearances from producer Ron Aniello, touring members of The E Street Band Soozie Tyrell, Lisa Lowell, Curtis King, Jr., Michelle Moore and Ada Dyer and the singer's wife and fellow E Street Band member and solo performer Patti Scialfa, as well as the couple's two adult sons, Evan and Sam Springsteen. 'Faithless' joins the other two pre-release songs previewing the Tracks II collection, the beat-heavy 'Blind Spot' from the 10-track Streets of Philadelphia Sessions and the turbulent, 'Rain in the River.' The 83-track collection will 'fill in rich chapters of Springsteen's expansive career timeline — while offering invaluable insight into his life and work as an artist,' according to the initial release announcing the set, which noted that some of the albums got to the mixing stage before being shelved. Among the other albums included are the lo-fi LA Garage Sessions '83, the country-leaning Somewhere North of Nashville and the border tales LP Inyo, as well as the 'orchestra-driven, mid-century noir' Twilight Hours. The box set covers the years 1983-2018 and will be issued in a limited-edition 9-LP set , as well as 7-CD and digital formats, with distinctive packaging for each. A 20-track compilation, Lost and Found: Selections From The Lost Albums, will also be released on June 27 on two LPs and one CD. Listen to Springsteen's 'Faithless' below. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
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01-05-2025
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Ye Rants ‘I Hate J. Cole' & Claims Kendrick Lamar Fans ‘Don't Know About Rap'
Ye (formerly Kanye West) hasn't let up when it comes to repeatedly taking shots at J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar. During a livestream on Wednesday (April 30), West claimed he hates Cole's music and disparaged the Compton rapper along with Lamar's fans. 'I hate J. Cole. It can't even be called music. I hate J. Cole,' Ye told Toronto rapper Top5. 'And it's something about both J. Cole and Kendrick that kinda, that leaves me sorta like — it reminds me of each other and s–t like that. It's just not that sauce to me.' More from Billboard Ye Says $3 Million Dispute With Producers Could Lead to 'Donda 2' Streaming Removal Bruce Springsteen Releases Haunted Song 'Faithless' From Upcoming 'Tracks II: The Lost Albums' Box Set Is Rose from 'Gypsy' the Greatest Role in Broadway History? That's What Tony Awards History Suggests Ye continued that if anyone in the room with him at that moment was a J. Cole fan, he didn't want them to tell him because otherwise, he'd devalue their opinion. The embattled rapper then turned his attention back to Lamar and took shots at any fan who would list the Pulitzer-winning rapper as their GOAT. 'Anybody that say Kendrick is one of their favorite rappers, don't know about rap, doesn't know about real rap,' he claimed. Billboard has reached out to J. Cole and Lamar's reps for comment. Cole and Kendrick have been frequent targets for Ye when he's been lashing out at his peers during recent rants on X. 'I DON'T LIKE KENDRICK LAMARS MUSIC,' he wrote in March. 'HE RAPS VERY GOOD BUT I DIDNT NEED TO HEAR HIM ON CARTI ALBUM.' While there's plenty of history between Cole and West, the Chicago native — who has faced widespread criticism for his repeated hate speech — claimed in early April that Cole's music was for 'virgins' and he's 'hurting hip-hop.' 'I hate J Cole music so much,' West said matter-of-factly on X. 'It's like between Kendrick and J Cole I bet you industry plants asked J Cole to diss Drake then we would have been accosted with a J Cole Super Bowl commercial with no SZA song to save it… No one listens to J Cole after loosing [sic] their virginity.' Kanye also dissed J. Cole last year with his 'Like That' remix. 'Play J. Cole get the p—y dry,' he raps on the track. Cole has jabbed at West on multiple occasions in the past. He previously checked him on 2016's 'False Prophets' and 2019's 'Middle Child,' saying he feels West hasn't lived up to the billing of his legend status. However, following the repeated shots, Cole took the high road and showed Ye love during his set at Dreamville Fest 2025 in April, where he saluted West for clearing samples for him throughout his decorated career. 'I know n—-s feel a way about him right now, but I got love for [Ye] and I really appreciate him. He cleared all these f—ing samples for me,' he said. On the music front, Ye is staying busy. He uploaded his lost 2022 Donda 2 album to streaming services for the first time on Tuesday night (April 29). Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
