As America approaches its 250th anniversary, Esquire is taking a deep dive into songs that most reflect our nation.

For all of the decades that Bruce Springsteen has turned in as a rockstar, he did acknowledge that it hurt to lose some ...

After hearing Bruce Springsteen’s new song, “Streets of Minneapolis,” I did what I always do when one of my favorite things, music, clashes with something I’ve come to dread, current events. I ...

Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run wasn’t just inspired by rock ’n’ roll — it was built from the DNA of everything that came before it. Pulling from Elvis Presley’s explosive energy, Roy Orbison’s ...

Bruce Springsteen released four standout albums in the 70s. Here is one song from each that deserve more attention.

Politics is the enemy of art. When art is conscripted into a cause, it risks shrinking into instruction. This is not a novel idea. Albert Camus warned that art pressed into ideological service ...