Springsteen sets L.A. tour date

Happy Tuesday. You might be jazzed about the Boss' announcements -- Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band are playing Oct. 28 in Los Angeles (venue TBA) and the very rocking new single "Radio Nowhere" is available for free here -- but the fact that P.J. Harvey has new music on the way is great too.

Harvey's new album, due Sept. 25, is titled "White Chalk." No U.S. tour dates have been announced yet.

You can stream "Under the Ether" here.

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Are they really charging $30 for a ticket ($40 at the door) for the Summer Strummer festival in Santa Monica on Sunday? I mean, Brett Dennen and Mat Kearney are nice singer-songwriters and all, but the lineup is filled with acts who play around town a lot, draining a lot of the cachet from their appearances there. Maybe people will be excited to see Duane Peters both play and skate. Or maybe they'll just show up to ogle the emcee.

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Touts for Tuesday, Aug. 28

Crowded House and the Greek and Gogol Bordello and the Fonda are the big shows, but there are plenty of club choices: The Watson Twins and Everest play a benefit for the Circle X Theater at Spaceland. ... No Age celebrates the release of "Weirdo Rippers" with a 7 p.m. in-store at Amoeba. ...  The Finches finish up a run of Tuesdays at Bordello. ... The Amateurs and the Lonely Years play the Let's Independent night at Boardner's. ... I See Hawks in LA headline at the Echo. ... And Map comes in from the Inland Empire to play the Silverlake Lounge.