Instead, though, I Googled Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’.” It seemed like a very Northland thing to do. Dylan’s music takes me to another imperfect, but simpler, time. I’ll just get lost ...

This year, two arena-filling artists returned to the older civic function of song. Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” and U2’s elegiac “American Obituary,” written in response to immigration ...

Although no one can dare to sound as great as Bruce Springsteen on record, there were some bands that had a bit more guitar ...