On June 2, 1978, Bruce Springsteen released Darkness on the Edge of Town. The record, his first since 1975's Born to Run made him a star, arrived after a lengthy lawsuit with his former manager Mike ...

Listen To This Eddie is a weekly column that examines the important people and events in the classic rock canon and how they continue to impact the world of popular music. After 1975, with the release ...

Sometimes it gets lost in the E Street shuffle. But real fans know: "Darkness on the Edge of Town" is essential Bruce Springsteen. The 1978 album had no major hits, but it did much to cement the ...

An incisive anatomy of an album that was painstakingly recorded in 1977 by a lean and hungry young Bruce Springsteen, Thom Zimny’s rock-doc “The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town” ...

New York — A uniquely crafted new Bruce Springsteen concert video promises to stoke the souls of insatiable Bruce buffs. And, judging from the wild response at its big-screen premiere, film fanatics ...

While most musicians would take worldwide acclaim and use that fame to build an even bigger public persona, Bruce Springsteen took a different route. After the massive success of “Born to Run,” ...

After Born to Run seemed to fulfill his promise as the future of rock and roll, Bruce Springsteen could have played it safe and repeated the formula. Instead, he chose a starker approach on his 1978 ...

This Sunday, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band will wrap up their two-year tour by performing their 1973 debut album Greetings From Asbury Park in its entirety (stick with Rolling Stone for a full ...

You’d better be some kind of genius to ask the world to admire your spiral notebooks. Bruce Springsteen, who’s spent a quarter-century-plus absorbing the love of people who feel his music changed ...

Right after the popular success of the 30th-anniversary edition of "Born To Run," the rumors that Bruce Springsteen would give a similar treatment to "Darkness on the Edge of Town," the brooding ...

Oct 07, 2010 Bruce Springsteen By Chris Tinkham Photography by Frank Stefanko/Sony Music Entertainment So, what was Darkness? A critics' album? A self-indulgent disappointment? A surprising success?