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Bruce Springsteen performed at the Tacoma Dome in April 2000. His new album, "The Rising," is out today.
Any other week, the new Linkin Park release would've got a couple of paragraphs, but we must defer to The Boss. After all, he and his Asbury Park, New Jersey, stomping grounds got major national exposure on this morning's "Today" show, with Springsteen and the E Street Band playing several songs from the new album. Springsteen’s ‘The Rising’
gets rave advance reviews
"The Rising" Bruce Springsteen (Columbia)
With a rejuvenated relationship with his backup band, advance word on "The Rising" is it's the best thing he's done in years. He revisits his blue-collar characters, but the production work with Pearl Jam/Black Crowes producer Brendan O'Brien shows a couple of new, more sophisticated arrangements than the standard E Street boisterousness of old.
All but two of the tracks were written after 9/11. He told Associated Press that "the songs I wrote sort of occur in that context ... (some songs) deal more directly with it than others, but the stories all happen in a post-September 11 context. If you were writing at that point, it's in everything in some fashion."
Also out:
"Thug World Order," Bone Thugs-N-Harmony "The Amalgamut," Filter "Reanimation," Linkin Park "Songs for Survivors," Graham Nash "Daybreaker," Beth Orton "Diorama," Silverchair "Fashionably Late," Linda Thompson
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