Bruce Springsteen began headlining arenas in the northeast as far back as October 1976 when he gigged two nights at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. He returned there for four concerts on the Darkness tour, and hit Madison Square Garden and Nassau Coliseum, too, then yet again in late 1980 on the River tour along with various regional Gardens and Civic Centers.
However, Springsteen wouldn’t play an arena show in his home state of New Jersey until July 1981 because, until then it didn’t have one. When the Brendan Byrne Arena opened in East Rutherford, Bruce and the E Street Band christened the future home of the Nets and Devils with a sold-out, six-show stand.
The new building already made this summer…
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It has been a five-and-a-half year wait since the debut of this large ensemble co-led by 
…Listening to 
Although the title of saxophonist Jordan VanHemert’s fifth album, Survival of the Fittest, may elicit images of a crash course in self-defense, that is not at all what he had in mind.
The city of Oxford over the past few decades has spawned the likes of Foals, Ride, and of course, Radiohead. Looking to emulate some of this high-calibre pedigree, alt-rock four-piece 
“And you’re off into the burning blue” songwriter Dave Benton sings on “Ponies,” the centerpiece of Trace Mountains’ fourth full-length album Into the Burning Blue. Decorated with retro textures and violet flowers, the album begins with the crackle of a fire, as if something is burning and hatching into a new form. As Benton grappled with the end of an 8-year romantic relationship, songs were pouring out of him in quick succession, often urgently before he had logically processed the emotions himself.
While their debut album, Howling at a Concrete Moon, was drenched in modern anxieties and struggling to find one’s place in today’s society, London indie rock foursome Pynch are looking more inward on their second record together, trying to decipher what it really means to be an indie band in the confusing world they attempted to paint a picture of two years ago.
Baltimore-bred psychedelic funk trailblazers Pigeons Playing Ping Pong release their eighth studio album, 
Alice Cohen has manifested throughout alternative music history in improbable ways, from MTV-era new wave with The Vels to Michael Stipe-produced grunge to 2000s hypnagogic pop.
Luv in the New World is the title of Canadian artist 
Things began to take a different turn for Liam St. John in 2021 when his single ‘Dipped in Bleach’ went viral. The temptation at that stage would have been to cash in with an album, but he’s taken four years to carefully plot his course, and you can hear the care taken on all of the 16 tracks of his debut album, Man of the North.
The mask and Stetson have become shorthand for 
… includes three previously unreleased covers, including her take on Otis Redding’s ‘The Happy Song (Dum Dum)’, recorded during the original sessions.
Yes, yes, yes to guitar tones bent by volume, to tone-altered screech with dream-soft vocals flowing over, to pedal boards that look like good-sized train sets, yes to all of it.
It’s no secret that the world we know today is a dark, violent, frightening place. A recent joke making the rounds on the internet held that for Halloween, homeowners wouldn’t need to put up skeletons and witches to decorate, they would just have to lug the television outside and put on the news. It’s ever more important, then, that there are bands that sound like they’re having fun. They don’t necessarily have to have “fun” themes. They just need to make despair sound like a party. Boston five-piece 
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