WEEKLY ENCORE: Your Must-Read Setlist
Here's a look at this week's top headlines.
Relix Daily
September 06, 2025
September 6, 2025
FEATURE
Sometime during set break, Rick Mitarotonda realized the band needed to make a call. The clock was rapidly ticking toward 10 p.m., and the singer/ guitarist, and the rest of the extended Goose organization, had a feeling they weren’t going to make Madison Square Garden’s 11:30 p.m. curfew. “We had a decent amount of time to do two 90-minute sets and an encore,” he says in early July, four days after his group’s headlining debut at the New York arena. “We cut maybe one thing, but we pretty much played what we had landed on. Then, we got off stage after the first set and realized it had been like two hours and the conversation started—‘What’s this gonna look like if we go late?’ And we ended up blowing past curfew.”
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.
RECAP
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.
NEWS
Radiohead have announced a new tour. From Nov. 4 to Dec. 12, the legendary avant-rock ensemble of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Colin Greenwood and Philip Selway will return to the stage with 20 performances plotted across Europe. The imminent run will arrive at last as the band’s first public concerts since 2018, nine years after the release of their ninth studio album, 2016’s A Moon Shaped Pool.
WATCH
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.
FEATURE
One of my two twelve-year-old sons had just finished packing and was on his way down to help his hero – his nineteen-year-old brother – fold and pack his suitcase. His anti-hero twin and I were folding the next load of still warm laundry at the kitchen table while their dad gassed up the car and went grocery shopping. We were getting ready for the following day’s journey up to Jay Peak Resort in Vermont for Strangefolk’s Garden of Eden festival.
LISTEN
On Friday, September 5, David Byrne will release his highly anticipated Matador Records output, Who Is The Sky? As a preview of the impending full-length record, the Talking Heads frontman has delivered the set’s latest single, “What Is The Reason For It?” The Hayley Williams featured track arrives alongside an official animated music video with line drawings by Byrne, and a playlist shared by the artist over the weekend in connection with his forthcoming nuptials.
