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Today is Steven Van Zandt’s Birthday

Today is Steven Van Zandt’s Birthday

We probably first got to know him as Miami Steve Van Zandt, Bruce Springsteen’s bestie and fellow guitarist from Middletown Township, New Jersey.

Now better known as Little Steven, he is a founding member of the “heart-stopping, pants-dropping, earth-shocking, hard rocking, booty-shaking, earth-quaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary E. Street Band.”

And thanks to the miracle of technology, every day his message of love through music can be heard on the Sirius channel Little Steven’s Underground Garage which has been airing soulful rock music since 2002.

Bruce and Steve became friends in the late 1960s as teens along the Jersey Shore where bands in the tight-knit music scene both supported and competed with each other. The two identified a kinship and in short time the men became like brothers off the stage, and on it Steven was and is Bruce’s right hand man.

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A Banger Was Released Every Day In November

A Banger Was Released Every Day In November

November gets plenty of credit for turkey, football and the annual rush to buy a slightly larger television. The record stores deserve a little attention, too. From Nirvana unplugging to Wu-Tang kicking the door in, this month has delivered an impressive pile of albums and plenty of ways to drown out Thanksgiving arguments. Here’s one for every day.

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