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Covering the music of Bruce Springsteen and Jersey Shore artists for 40 years
Joined January 2011
Tonight in Pittsburgh, @springsteen dedicated “Backstreets” to Charles Cross: “the founder of Backstreets magazine — his great writing, and his influence, and his help communicating between our band and our fans will be sorely missed.” via @YouTube.
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The late Charles R. Cross with his son Ashland at Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena, to see @springsteen together on 2/27/23. This night, back where Backstreets began, prompted Charley's final "On the Backstreets" column, which we share here:
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Here at Backstreets, we’re devastated by the loss of our founding father, Charles R. Cross. Read on: Photographs by David DuBois, January 2024.
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Music to our ears. AG Merrick Garland recalls being "transformed by live music" in college, "going to a @TheBonnieRaitt concert and seeing a then-up-and-coming musician named Bruce @Springsteen play as a warm-up act. We all knew that we had just seen the future of rock and roll.".
Live Nation-Ticketmaster has illegally monopolized markets across the live concert industry in the U.S. for far too long. Today's announcement makes clear it is time to break it up.
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Asbury Park Palace Amusements artifacts, including Tillie, are on NJ endangered list via @AsburyParkPress.
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The Palace Amusements was torn down in 2004. Some elements were saved and are apparently located outside the city's Convention Hall.
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25 years since @Springsteen fans formed Save Tillie, @PreservationNJ has put the Palace Amusements artifacts on its list of Most Endangered Places for 2024, promising to help us fight to preserve the artifacts and return them to view in Asbury Park
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The full array of our current live auctions, up for bids now and closing in the coming week. And we'll keep adding new stuff daily! Visit & save our.@eBay shop to keep up with our latest auctions
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Outskirts Dispatch Vol. 193: Backstreets AUCTIONS on eBay
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With the end of our lease at Backstreets HQ drawing nearer, we're redoubling efforts to clear it all out… like these Springsteen singles, on eBay now! More to come, looking for good homes. Visit & save our @eBay shop to keep up with our latest auctions
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It does our hearts good to see that Holly Cara Price, who we lost in 2020, will be among those honored as an Asbury Angel tonight. ❤️
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Available for the 1st time on its own: our printed supplement for 'Only the Strong Survive,' a 16-page insert booklet with song-by-song liner notes. Sized to fit into the CD digipak, or store it in your LP sleeve… or put it in a stocking! Get yours here:
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ANOTHER FIVE-BUCK BACK ISSUE, this one marked down from $12. Our 25th anniversary double issue was our biggest yet, 124 pages of Boss history and perfect-bound. Interviews with @gwtallent, Danny Federici, @ThomZimny, and @Danny_Clinch:
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FIVE-BUCK BACK ISSUES! New markdowns in our shop, with a dozen issues of Backstreets now on sale for $5 each. So much Springsteen history preserved in these pages.… #78 chronicles the 2003 Rising tour and gets the 92/93 story from Shane Fontayne: .
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Just in time for All Hallow's Eve — thought they were long gone, but we just found a small stack of these stickers, featuring a spooky play on the Backstreets logo designed for us by Frank Caruso. Just added to the shop: Happy Halloween! 🎃
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He doesn’t get the adulation of a Greil Marcus or a Robert Christgau, but that doesn’t mean he’s any less important. via @slate.
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Dave Marsh made me want to write about music.
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If you know Dave Marsh only as a @SIRIUSXM host, you're missing one of the best writers and thinkers about music we've got — his crucial #Springsteen insight in the '70s/'80s just for starters. Check out his new KICK OUT THE JAMS collection, out now:
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Selected writings on three decades of popular music from one of the most influential critics of his generation.Spanning three decades worth of astu...
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Bad things happen to good people, and Jesse's one of the best. We're keeping a good thought for you, @jesse_malin, please maintain that PMA — and we encourage anyone within earshot to help out via Sweet Relief's Jesse Malin Fund:
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Check out Jesse Malin Fund by Sweet Relief!
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20% off EVERYTHING (coupon code BR20) includes dozens of CDs by Jersey Shore artists, E Streeters, and Friends of #Springsteen like: @nilslofgren @asburyjukes @eddiemanion @gary_us_bonds @joedursocbgb @JoeGrushecky @willienile @StevieVanZandt & more! .
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