BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN TO PLAY SUPER BOWL XLIII

Last year, the Super Bowl had Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, and this year, it will have Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band. Cool news: first of all, it's cool because it will remind a global audience just how powerful this band is. But even more cool than that: it probably means there will be more touring in 2009. Bruce probably wouldn't be doing the Super Bowl if he didn't have a new album or tour to promote, and hopefully he'll have both. I'd love to see him do "Livin' In The Future," but those lyrics would probably be hard to swallow for the conservative football crowd.