Springsteen, of all artists, the one who’d held fast throughout his touring life to a fixed mantra, ‘No one gets left behind,’ had allowed himself to be at the caprice of Ticketmaster’s noxious ‘dynamic pricing’ model.

American rock-and-roll icon Bruce Springsteen released a new single this week, his first original material since 2020’s Letter to You. Inspired by the recent clashes in Minneapolis between federal immigration authorities and left-wing agitators,

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are embarking on the Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour, making a stop in Portland on April 3, to celebrate and defend American democracy, freedom, and the Constitution.