Bruce Springsteen Unveils ‘Electric Nebraska,’ Tedeschi Trucks Band Welcome Warren Haynes
New Vinyl ‘DelFest Does Dead’
Relix Daily
September 04, 2025
September 4, 2025
NEWS
Bruce Springsteen’s legendary 1982 album Nebraska represented a seismic shift in his artistic perspective, fearlessly pursuing true and unguarded creative expression as the pressures of new fame forced the singer-songwriter to look inwards. The immortal record that resulted is an audibly intimate, raw document of his soul-searching, set to tape on a four-track recorder and left unfinished, foregoing plans for re-recording with his E-Street band to preserve the energy of his stripped-back acoustic sessions. Since its unforgettable release, rumors of what could have been have circulated among Springsteen’s passionate fan base. Today, he’s finally answered long-lingering questions with the official unveiling of Electric Nebraska, part of the upcoming Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition.
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Tedeschi Trucks Band and Gov’t Mule arrived in Toronto on Wednesday, September 3, for the first in a series of September co-bills. Last night’s concert on the Budweiser Stage included separate sets from each of the respective bands, and a collaboration between the husband and wife-led ensemble and Warren Haynes, who fused their musical histories on The Allman Brothers Band’s Eat a Peach cut, “Stand Back,” and The Beatles’ “With a Little Help From My Friends,” in the arrangement of Joe Cocker’s Mad Dogs & Englishmen.
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Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts have channeled their political frustration and contempt for Washington into a new, fully charged protest anthem, “Big Crime.” The track initially debuted in front of a live audience during the five-piece’s August 27, 2025, appearance at Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island in Chicago and is now available on YouTube as an official video, shot during the band’s Windy City soundcheck.
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Since its celebrated debut in 2008, DelFest has earned recognition as a standard bearer in the bluegrass festival circuit. Year after year, the beloved event and its founder, the great Del McCoury, welcome a litany of high-profile acts in country, folk, traditional music and everything in between, uniting iconic forebearers and innovators of the next generation for an all-encompassing Americana celebration. At its 16th annual presentation, which lit up Cumberland, Md., from May 22-25, DelFest spotlighted the legacy of a band that has guided new and old bluegrass forerunners alike: the Grateful Dead.
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Over the weekend, The String Cheese Incident appeared on the West Coast, performing at the Britt Pavilion in Jacksonville, Ore., on Saturday, August 30, before their two-set delivery at Cannifest in Eureka, Calif., on Sunday, August 31. During their initial gig, the band welcomed a special guest and seasoned collaborator, Jeff Pevar, known as a Phil Lesh & Friends contributor and member of CPR [David Crosby, Jeff Pevar, and James Raymond], to stir up a series of fused moments that adhered to “County Road Blues” and the Jerry Garcia associated “Tore Up Over You.”
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This fall, Robert Glasper will return to New York’s Blue Note Jazz Club for Robtober 2025, the seventh edition of his annual residency at the vaunted musical institution. Set to kick off on Wednesday, Oct. 1, and continue through Nov. 2, Glasper’s residency in the Big Apple will include performances on all Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays for a five-week stretch, delivering two sets each night with a litany of special guests.
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Less than two hours from the Big Apple, the newly restored Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, N.Y., will host the Asbury Park five-piece known as Dogs in a Pile. The group, featuring Jeremy Kaplan, Brian Murray, Joey Babick, Jimmy Law, and Sam Lucid, will perform over two nights on December 30 and 31 at the Upstate New York venue, marking the New Year after taking part in a packed fall schedule.
