After hearing Bruce Springsteen’s new song, “Streets of Minneapolis,” I did what I always do when one of my favorite things, music, clashes with something I’ve come to dread, current events. I ...
Politics is the enemy of art. When art is conscripted into a cause, it risks shrinking into instruction. This is not a novel idea. Albert Camus warned that art pressed into ideological service ...
Mr. Springsteen meet Mr. Dylan. That's the company judge Carrie Underwood put Asbury Park rocker Jake Thistle in on the Monday, March 9 episode of “American Idol” as Thistle made it to the Top 20. “It ...