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From a new Rolling Stone interview with today:

Bruce Springsteen tells Rolling Stone he has a couple of new albums on the way. This is what Bruce said about the new albums and touring:

When we spoke last year, you told me you had a new solo album totally finished. What’s your plan for that now?

Well, I’m currently working on a couple of records. I did finish one, and it is done. I’m in the process of working on this other one, which, because of the nature of the material, felt like it should come out first. So that’s the situation I’m in. I’m trying to finish that up, and I’d like to release that first. And then this other record that I made, which is not time-relevant, it can come out at any time and it’ll work.

Is that a solo record or an E Street record?
It’s a surprise. [Laughs.]

Fair enough. Do you know when that will come out, when the surprise will reveal itself?

I do not right now. Hopefully sooner than later, of course.

Do you miss touring? Do you feel the itch to get back out there?

Well, we toured quite a bit, and we toured the previous spring. We toured this spring. And these days that’s what I like to do. I would like to go out and do 20, 30 shows. I don’t imagine a 140-show E Street tour will happen again. It’s just time is too short right now. But I do imagine a good series of simply shorter tours where we touch different places at different times. And the band is playing so well. In my opinion, if you saw this show, you saw one of the best shows we’ve ever done. The band is playing so well that we have a happy life there, and that’ll continue.

There’s a vocal contingent of fans who miss the more freewheeling shows where you took signs and made big changes from night to night. Might you do a tour like that again in the future?

I don’t know. I don’t want to make any promises. I just don’t know what I’m going to do next or what’s going to motivate me to go a certain way. Shows like that might come up, or I might come up with something completely or somewhat different, so I can’t really say.

As far as the concert film from Philadelphia that part one was released this morning, this is what Bruce had to say about it and why it was filmed in Philly and why it's comin out in parts for those who were asking:

Are you releasing the movie in segments now timed to the midterms?

Well, it wasn’t specifically planned to fall into the midterms, but if it does, that’s great. Really, we just had Thom [Zimny] do the first seven songs to see what we had. I didn’t know what the show was like on film. He basically cut, edited, and we got the sound good on the first seven pieces. When I saw it, I said, “This has got to come out now.”

I can’t wait another three, four months for the rest of the concert to be edited and have it finished. The whole thing, the pop-up tour, was about immediacy and being in this moment, providing something that I felt an audience, my audience, could use in this moment.
And so as soon as I saw it, I said, “This comes out now.” Everybody said, “Well, what do we do with the rest?” I said, “Well, we’ll serialize it is what we’ll do.” And basically that’s what we’re going to do. You’ll be getting seven songs or so in four different compartments, and at the end of the day, you’ll have the whole show.
I think it has more impact that way. The first seven songs, to my eye, have a tremendous amount of impact because it’s only 40 minutes. And anybody can spare that 40 minutes to get an idea of what we were trying [to do]. It’s 40 minutes, and it says everything we wanted to say.

The setlist didn’t really change from night to night. Did your experience on Broadway change the way you approached putting a show together?

Nope. It was simply, once we found that setlist, it was not going to be something where I threw in “Darlington County” or something else there. It just wouldn’t have made sense. That setlist was its own novel, for better or for worse. The minute we stumbled on it, with the exception of… I think we added “Clampdown” along the way. But once we found that setlist, we stuck with it the whole way. It was fun because it does get deeper as you go. The Philadelphia show that we were lucky enough to film was just one of the highlights of the tour.

A lot of fans presumed you’d film the big stadium show in D.C. Why did you go with Philadelphia?

Well, we didn’t film D.C. because we wanted to film two nights that could be similar and intercut. So, if I’m correct, we filmed Boston and Philly, and if I’m right, we only use Philly. So that was the reason. D.C. was a one-off and it was a great show outside in that ballpark. We had so many good shows on this tour. And the band was just ripping and roaring at the end, by the time we got towards the end. So when we hit Philly, Philly just exploded. It was wonderful.

Article: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bruce-springsteen-new-concert-film-interview-reclaim-flag-1235623169/

One of their newest TikTok content videos was a really weird one, where a person ranked bands from the WOA 2026 LineUp. Obviously this person has no real idea of the who the bands are, so it is a fun entertaining video. The problem and where it gets weird is that 9 of 10 bands are actual on the lineup. The other one is IM (they said their final european show in 2026 was Eddfest Knebworth and they also played Rock am ring, as well as the fact the mainstages are fully scheduled on all possible slots that would fit Maiden). So there never was a big chance for Maiden to actually play this year but so weird to not just choose all bands from the real lineup or make a "New Intern ranks biggest metal bands that (n)ever played Wacken instead.

Just a frustrating mess now, keep it real or go fully unrealistic for a video like this. Maybe they wanted more Promotional attention for ticket sales. Also with AI shirt designs, the casino thing. Both in 2023 and 2025 I had a good time traveling there and the lineup is good (more smaller bands therefore not so many big acts like at Hellfest, Graspop). What I want to say is that there are valid things to criticize but there are also positive things. But this video thing is weird especially with them saying "we are sorry if this created false hope that Maiden would play in 2026" while literally every other band in video actually does play.

https://www.sabaton.net/news/music/announcing-the-last-stand-10th-anniversary-edition-out-september-11/

Today Sabaton announced the release of the 10th Anniversary Edition of their Last Stand album. It will include the four bonus tracks covers All Guns Blazing (Judas Priest), Afraid to Shoot Strangers (Iron Maiden) and more. Also the DVD includes songs 8 to 18 from their set at Sabaton Open Air 2016 (Last show with Thobbe Englund before he rejoined in 2024).

I wonder why they don't release the full set with the other songs played before Counterstrike (would be interesting to know if the full set was recorded) and what about the original Last Stand bonus DVD they filmed at their show in Nantes, France in February 2016. Still excited for this nice anniversary gift.

https://www.vrt.be/vrtmax/livestream/video/south-stage-graspop-metal-meeting/ currently Sabaton is in the schedule to be livestreamed starting 11.30pm tonight, will be interesting maybe the play something like Race To The Sea (live debuted in 2022 at Graspop) for the fans in Belgium.

You can watch Sabaton perform live at Hellfest 2026 tonight on Arte Concert Youtube.

Sabaton will close the second mainstage (Mandora stage) tonight, with the show starting 11.20pm CEST. You can watch the show for free on MagentaMusik: https://www.magentamusik.de/rock-am-ring-2026/?stage=0

Finally a professional livestream recording again, will probably be the same for Wacken this year. Setlist for the European Summer 2026 tour is great so far. They even played First Soldier at the festival in France a few days ago. https://www.setlist.fm/stats/sabaton-13d6d1c5.html?tour=5bdafb98

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpTjbZfGEw8&t=25s During the premiere of Burning Ambition Bruce said: "Keep your eye on the setlist. As we, start in Athens." when asked about what to expect at Eddfest. With that smile at the end, it makes it look like they might finally play Alexander The Great in Greece. Definitely something in the setlist will change, as there would be no reason to "keep an eye on it" when nothing changes compared to last year.