Friday January 4, 2013
Jon Bream
Reporter | Pop Music
Phone: 612-673-1719
Email: jbream@startribune.com
Since he began covering popular music for the Star Tribune in 1974, Jon Bream has attended more than 6,000 concerts and interviewed the King of Pop, the Queen of Soul and Prince as well as Bob Dylan, U2, three Beatles, four Rolling Stones and all of Maroon 5. He has performed with Alice Cooper, jogged with Willie Nelson and has Taylor Swift on his speed dial. He has written books on Prince, Led Zeppelin and Neil Diamond. But Jon has yet to satisfy a request of many Star Tribune readers: that he take a music-appreciation class.
Recent content from Jon Bream
Best in show and on record
Our music critics agreed on Springsteen and Alabama Shakes, but otherwise they saw 2012 from distinctly different perspectives. Compare your picks with theirs
Updated: December 30, 2012, - 05:05 PM
Soul Asylum: Revamped band or just a brand?
The veteran Minneapolis rock group played First Ave, with only one original member left in the lineup.
Updated: December 29, 2012, - 06:11 PM
Pop music spotlight: Brandi Carlile
BRANDI CARLILE Sunday-Monday: Carlile started her 2012 tour at the Minnesota Zoo. So it's seems fitting that she'll play her final...
Updated: December 29, 2012, - 01:13 PM
Pop music spotlight: Blind Boys of Alabama
BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA Monday-Tuesday: For their 2003 Christmas album, "Go Tell It on the Mountain," the Blind Boys of Alabama...
Updated: December 08, 2012, - 01:55 PM
Orchestra, Okee Dokee Brothers get Grammy nominations
The two Minnesota musical acts -- one internationally known, the other little known -- received Grammy nominations Wednesday.
Updated: December 06, 2012, - 06:37 AM
Jingle Ball delivers gifts good, bad
Review: Jon Bream rates the performers at the annual holiday concert at the X as holiday “presents” — open me first, stocking stocker, regift or lump of coal.
Updated: December 05, 2012, - 05:54 AM
Pop/rock spotlight: KDWB Jingle Ball
This year's Jingle Ball is heavy on pop and light on hip-hop and R&B. Korean pop star PSY is the big coup.
Updated: December 01, 2012, - 03:28 PM
Still the boss: He proves it all night
You can have Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps. And Adrian Peterson and LeBron James. I'll cast my vote for world's greatest athlete for Bruce Springsteen.
Updated: November 12, 2012, - 08:32 AM
Backing the Boss
Bruce Springsteen guitarist Steven Van Zandt on his many ventures.
Updated: November 11, 2012, - 04:01 PM
Bettye LaVette: Words and music from a soul survivor
In a painful, celebrity-filled memoir, rebounding R&B singer Bettye LaVette tells it like it was.
Updated: November 10, 2012, - 03:51 PM
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