E Street Band

An update on the concert scene: newly announced shows and ticket availability. For ticket information and purchase, call Ticketmaster at 410-481-SEAT unless otherwise noted. Just announced Joan Baez performs at George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium in Washington Oct. 25. Radiohead will play Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia Aug. 20. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. Also, "Day In the Woods Music Festival," featuring Eddie From Ohio, Keller Williams, Dar Williams and Matt Nathanson, will be held there Aug. 2. Tickets go on sale at noon tomorrow.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The screen door slammed Thursday night, and I was a Jersey girl again.Not the Jersey girl I once was, a four-eyed chub with the bathing-suit blues, but the one I once wished I could be, cruising down the boardwalk with my friends, a curfew just beyond the horizon, my mind spinning with top-10 lyrics and an awesome case of entitlement.That's the beauty of Bruce Springsteen. He doesn't sing for the kids who are already having a great time; he sings for the ones who lie in bed at night dreaming about what they think they're missing.

It used to be that the pop-music business ran in predictable, seasonal cycles. In the first few months of the year, the emphasis was on "baby bands," the new groups that needed exposure and word-of-mouth to build an audience. Then, as winter rolled into spring, the road bands - mainly hard rockers and veteran acts - flooded the stores with albums they would promote through lengthy summer tours. Once the weather warmed up, the stress would shift to singles, as every act with a potential summer hit fought for time on the radio.

Belvedere Square wraps up its outdoor series of concerts on film with a documentary of Bruce Springsteen rocking out in Dublin. In We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, cameras follow the Boss and the Session Band on the final stop of the 2006 tour. The original album was a favorite of many critics, and the tour ramped up the material creatively. But the Seeger Sessions may put off Springsteen purists. The tour featured music by radical folk musician Pete Seeger, not songs penned by the Boss himself; the E-Street Band is nowhere to be found.

The Boss gets nod to play at Super Bowl halftime Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform at the Super Bowl halftime show in Tampa, Fla., the NFL and NBC announced Sunday night. Continuing a run of major talent that has lately included the Rolling Stones, U2, Paul McCartney, Prince and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the biggest television event in the nation will showcase one of its most beloved rock 'n' roll artists. The Super Bowl will be played Feb. 1 at Raymond James Stadium.

Just announced Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will play the MCI Center in Washington Aug. 10. Call 410-481-SEAT. Toby Keith brings his "Unleashed" tour to Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, Va., Sept. 14. Also on the bill are Rascal Flatts and Paul Thorn. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. Call 410-481-SEAT. Jay-Z, 311, Hoobastank, N.E.R.D., Nappy Roots and others take the stage at Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, Va., Aug. 23. Tickets go on sale tomorrow at 11 a.m. Call 410-481-SEAT.

Goodbye, goodbye! Season finales abound tonight, along with one series ender. Rock fans also take note: Some never-before-telecast music and conversation from Bruce Springsteen arrive on cable.* "Mad About You" (8 p.m.-9 p.m., WBAL, Channel 11) -- This series' charm stems from the fact that Paul and Jamie (Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt) seem like real spouses. Tonight's extended season finale plays the old "what if?" game most spouses know well. When they learn that the place where they met is gone, we view a fantasy life in which they have not gotten together.

Here's our round-up of the week's most notable concerts. For more shows, check out FindLocal . Ticket prices do not reflect any additional surcharges and taxes. On Monday, Rachel Yamagata (whom you may have heard sing on Jason Mraz and Conor Oberst songs) performs at Rams Head on Stage ( $23.50 ). On Tuesday, D.R.I. (aka Dirty Rotten Imbeciles) performs at Baltimore Soundstage ( $15 ). Pop-punk meets folk at the Recher Theatre when "The Revival Tour" stops at Towson.

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band will be crowned 2003's top concert attraction by Pollstar in the magazine's annual ranking of the top 100 North American tours, a list that will be finalized this week. The New Jersey rocker grossed $115.9 million from 47 performances in 30 cities, according to Pollstar editor Gary Bongiovanni, placing him No. 2 on the list of the highest-grossing tours ever. The Rolling Stones' 1994 tour remains the all-time champion with $121.2 million in tickets sold.

Bill Chinnock, a musician and founding member of what became Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, died Wednesday, police said in Yarmouth, Maine. He was 59. Mr. Chinnock, a blues and roots rock stylist, had Lyme disease, and police said they were called to his East Main Street home by his live-in caregiver. Lt. Dean Perry would not comment on the cause of death but said "it is not of a suspicious nature." Mr. Chinnock's manager, Paul Pappas, told WCSH-TV that the guitarist, keyboardist, singer and songwriter committed suicide.