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New Jersey Monthly Magazine
Music Festival

Asbury Park Gears Up for Bamboozle's Return

What started as a weekend concert in Asbury Park nine years ago, has become a major rock extravaganza with national appeal. more

Texas Crowd Warms to Post-Clemons Springsteen

Two hours and 18 minutes passed in their Thursday night set at South By Southwest before Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band sang about the time the big man joined the band. The band—and the audience—went silent.

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Springsteen Awakens Music-Conference Crowd

High noon is an ungodly hour for the hipsters who crawl the late-night bars and honky-tonks of Austin, Texas, at the annual South By Southwest music conference. But that was wake-up time this morning if they wanted to catch an earful of the conference’s music keynote speaker, Bruce Springsteen.

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Rock Festival Survival Guide

It’s outdoor concert season, when music lovers endure hour after hour of ear-splitting sound while standing on tiptoe, elbow to elbow under the pitiless sun. You can’t beat it! If, that is, you take these simple precautions. more