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Bruce Springsteen didn’t need to say anything when he got onstage. Everyone at East Rutherford’s MetLife Stadium knew the occasion. After the E Street Band re-emerged for the first time in seven years with an arena tour across America, they took to stadiums in Europe for the summer, and now they’ve come back home.  » Read More

The Australian label Mushroom Records is marking its 50th anniversary this year with a bunch of covers and some live shows. The latest contribution to the celebration comes from Alex Lahey, who covered “Ego Is Not A Dirty Word,” the title track from the Aussie band Skyhooks’ 1975 sophomore album.  » Read More

The Armed have, until recently, presented themselves as “functionally anonymous,” a revolving door lineup boasting members of Converged, Queens of the Stone Age, and Jane’s Addiction, alongside multitudinous creative friends and musical acquaintances.  » Read More

The title of Grian Chatten’s debut solo album, Chaos For the Fly, borrows from the quote “What is normal to the spider is chaos for the fly,” attributed to Charles Addams, the titular creator of The Addams Family. It refers to the different modalities of reality we all exist in, implying there’s no such thing as a “normal” that suits everyone,  » Read More

San Francisco post punk outfit Feefawfum is the new project from Farley Miller, a long-time indie underground presence who has previously drummed for ex-Unicorn Alden Penner and Ky Brooks. The band’s forthcoming debut album, 100 was reportedly inspired by Miller’s own experiences living with type 1 diabetes.  » Read More

Woods are releasing a new album, Perennial, on September 15 via the band’s own Woodsist label. Now they have shared two more new songs from it: “Little Black Flowers” and “Day Moving On.”  » Read More

Nashville-based singer/songwriter Lindsay Lou has been steadily building her place in the Americana world, playing with her bluegrass outfit, Lindsay Lou & The Flatbellys, and the Michigan folk supergroup Sweet Water Warblers. In this time, she’s toyed with the many different iterations of roots music, ranging from bluegrass, soul, gospel, blues, and Appalachian folk.  » Read More

The Kills (Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince) have announced a new album, God Games, and shared a new song from it, “103,” via a music video. God Games is the band’s first new album in seven years.  » Read More

Devendra Banhart is releasing a new album, Flying Wig, on September 22 via Mexican Summer. Now he has shared the album’s third single, “Nun.”  » Read More