Springsteen sets major E Street Band tour,

Springsteen sets major E Street Band tour, with Chicago date
Bruce Springsteen announced Tuesday that he will tour this fall with the E Street Band for the first time in four years, including an Oct. 21 concert at the United Center.

Tickets ($95, $65) for the Chicago show will go on sale at 11 a.m. Sept. 8 through the United Center box office and Ticketmaster. The tour begins Oct. 2 in Hartford, Ct., and will play 16 North American cities before moving to Europe in November.

Springsteen and the E Street Band are also scheduled to release a studio album, “Magic,” on Oct. 2. The first single, “Radio Nowhere,” was made available for free at the iTunes store Tuesday. The uptempo rock song echoes some of Springsteen’s guitar-driven work of decades ago, rather than the more somber material of recent vintage.

The singer has toured recently as a solo act and with the large string band he assembled for his 2006 “Seeger Sessions” album, but neither of those generated the sales buzz of an E Street Band tour. When last on the road, in 2002-03, Springsteen and the E Street Band raked in $157 million in revenue.

The band includes keyboardists Roy Bittan and Danny Federici, saxophonist Clarence Clemons, guitarists Steve Van Zandt and Nils Lofgren, bassist Garry Tallent, vocalist Patti Scialfa, and drummer Max Weinberg. The E Streeters have been performing with Springsteen in various guises since the early ‘70s, and underpinned the tours that cemented his reputation as one of his generation’s greatest live performers.