Bruce and the E Street Band perform a 27-song set in Philadelphia, PA, the final show of the tour. “War” (written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, recorded by The Temptations and Edwin Starr), “Clampdown” (written by Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, recorded by The Clash), “Streets of Minneapolis,” “House of a Thousand Guitars” (performed solo acoustic), and the show-closing cover of Bob Dylan’s “Chimes of Freedom” all appear; “Land of Hope and Dreams” is the main-set closer. Tom Morello guests on 12 songs.

Originally released on DVD 23 years ago, Barcelona 2002 has not been available in any audio format until now. This new 2026 mix from the original multitrack master recordings supplants the DVD soundtrack to provide the best audio document to date of the Rising tour. The 24-song set includes ten songs from the album, the tour debut of "Spirit In The Night," a solo piano performance of "Incident On 57th Street," "Born In The U.S.A.," "Dancing In The Dark," "Night," "Ramrod" and "Land Of Hope And Dreams" before closing with "Thunder Road." Read the full essay by Erik Flannigan.

Not long after You're Gonna Get It, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' label, Shelter, was sold to MCA Records. Petty struggled to free himself from the major label, eventually sending himself into bankruptcy. He settled with MCA and set to work on his third album, digging out some old Mudcrutch numbers and quickly writing new songs. Amazingly, through all the frustration and anguish, Petty & the Heartbreakers delivered their breakthrough and arguably their masterpiece with Damn the Torpedoes. Musically, it follows through on the promise of their first two albums, offering a tough, streamlined fusion of the Stones and Byrds that, thanks to Jimmy Iovine's clean production, sounded utterly modern yet timeless. It helped that the Heartbreakers had turned into a tighter, muscular outfit, reminiscent of, well, the Stones in their prime - all of the parts combine into a powerful, distinctive sound capable of all sorts of subtle variations…

Brandon Flowers presents THRASHER, his first solo album in over a decade, via Island Records. Recorded in Nashville at the historic RCA Studio A with longtime producers Shawn Everett and Jonathan Rado, THRASHER features many of Music City's most renowned players, including longtime Gillian Welch collaborator David Rawlings on guitar, prolific and influential pedal steel player Bruce Bouton, and Charlie McCoy, the legendary harmonica player whose signature playing graces all four of Bob Dylan's iconic Nashville records. Rooted in his formative childhood years in the small town of Nephi, Utah, the timeless sonic approach proves to be the ideal home for Flowers' most personal and vulnerable songwriting yet.

Uh-Huh found John Mellencamp coming into his own, but he perfected his heartland rock with Scarecrow. A loose concept album about lost innocence and the crumbling of small-town America, Scarecrow says as much with its tough rock and gentle folk-rock as it does with its lyrics, which remain a weak point for Mellencamp. Nevertheless, his writing has never been more powerful: "Rain on the Scarecrow" and "Small Town" capture the hopes and fears of Middle America, while "Lonely Ol' Night" and "Rumbleseat" effortlessly convey the desperate loneliness of being stuck in a dead-end life. Those four songs form the core of the album, and while the rest of the album isn't quite as strong, that's only a relative term, since it's filled with lean hooks and powerful, economical playing that make Scarecrow one of the definitive blue-collar rock albums of the mid-'80s.

Stockholm July 2, 1988 is a companion to the famous radio broadcast concert at the same venue 24 hours later (also released in the Live Archive series). This night one Stockholm warm-up delivers a looser, 30-song set teeming with Tunnel tour gems, including "Boom Boom, "Adam Raised A Cain," "Seeds," "Chimes Of Freedom," "Paradise By The 'C'," "You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)," "I'm A Coward," "Light Of Day," "Sweet Soul Music and "Raise Your Hand," plus the storming coupling of "War" into "Born In The U.S.A." and a tour debut for "Cadillac Ranch." Read the full essay by Erik Flannigan.

Released in 2013 by Secretly Canadian for its 10th anniversary, The Magnolia Electric Co. is the expanded 2-CD deluxe reissue of the landmark 2003 masterpiece by Songs: Ohia (Jason Molina). Recorded by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio in Chicago, the album stands as a watershed moment in indie rock, bridging sparse alt-country folk with sweeping classic-rock dynamics. Disc 1 features the remastered original album—including iconic anthems "Farewell Transmission," "I've Been Riding With The Ghost," and "Hold On Magnolia"—alongside rare session outtakes "The Big Game Is Every Night" and the unreleased "Whip-Poor-Will." Disc 2 gathers Jason Molina's intimate original solo acoustic demos for the entire project.

In June 2026, the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music opened its doors in Long Branch, NJ and became a must-visit for any fan. Hundreds of fascinating artifacts (e.g., the radically different alternate cover mock-up for Nebraska) and curated displays tracing the roots of American music up through the present day appear, and in the James F. Allen In Concert Gallery, you can watch videos of live performances. One particularly striking clip captures Springsteen at Max’s Kansas City in 1972 performing “Lost In The Flood” on piano.

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band performed at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on May 14, 2026. The performance was a part of their "NO KINGS" Land Of Hope And Dreams American Tour.

On The Road With John Mellencamp is a compilation album by American heartland rock singer John Mellencamp, released on July 24, 2026. The album was issued under the Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) label and compiles 12 tracks spanning his long-standing career. The record brings together iconic hits, celebrated radio staples, and modern audio mixes.

Lucinda Williams is a daughter of the American South, born in Louisiana, who is proud of her heritage while also understanding the contradictions and the baggage that come with that. Tom Petty was a native Floridian who also loved the South without harboring illusions about it, and so it makes sense that Williams would be a Petty fan, and not simply as one gifted songwriter respecting another. As part of her Lu’s Jukebox series, designed to help independent music venues shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic, Williams has cut a set of her favorite Tom Petty tunes, and Runnin’ Down a Dream: A Tribute to Tom Petty is long on songs about Southern life, including “Gainesville,” “Down South,” “Rebels,” “Southern Accents,” and “Louisiana Rain.”

Roots and groove mark this teaming of John Hiatt and the North Mississippi Allstars. On Master of Disaster, legendary Memphis producer Jim Dickinson and his sons Luther and Cody (the Allstars' guitarist and drummer, respectively) team with veteran bassist David Hood to give Hiatt's music a slow simmer rather than the high voltage fans might have expected from the collaboration. Yet the airy, organic interplay of the band provides the perfect complement for Hiatt's songs of folkish simplicity and lyrical grace. With the title track, he addresses the artist's midlife crisis and finds creative renewal in the process, a theme revisited in the country balladry of "Old School." There's a ragtime spirit to "Wintertime Blues" and "Back on the Corner," the insistence of a tom-tom's thump on "Love's Not Where We Thought We Left It" and "Find You At Last," a slide guitar that slices and dices through "Ain't Ever Goin' Back." With "When My Love Crosses Over," Hiatt returns to the soulful, soaring romantic balladry that remains a signature specialty, while "Cold River" tells a story that probes the coldest resources of the human heart. The result is his richest and most consistently satisfying release since the late 1980s.