Pop Music : Pop Eye : SMALL FACES

While on tour with Bruce Springsteen and basking in acclaim as part of the cast of “The Sopranos,” Steven Van Zandt is releasing his first solo album in 10 years. Titled “Born Again Savage,” it culminates a five-album cycle Van Zandt conceived in 1982, with successive sets dealing with, he says, the individual, the family, the state, the economy and, finally, religion. The new one will be available first only through his Web site (https://www.RenegadeNation.com) starting Sept. 15, with general retail distribution planned for November. . . .

Marilyn Manson is contributing a song, “Astonishing Panorama of the End Times,” for the MTV series “Celebrity Deathmatch.” The song will be featured in the final episode of the season, to be shown in November, and will be used as the first single and video from an album being made as a show tie-in. . . .

A shortened version of a BBC documentary about Beatles manager Brian Epstein, which won the British equivalent of an Emmy for best documentary earlier this year, will be shown on the A&E; cable channel on Sept. 17 at 5 and 9 p.m. The telecast comes the week of the re-release of the group’s animated “Yellow Submarine” movie. . . .

Natalie Merchant’s five-night stand at the Neil Simon Theater on Broadway this year was recorded for an album (due Nov. 9) and a video program (showing Nov. 8 on the Lifetime cable channel and due on home video Nov. 9). . . .

A two-CD Loreena McKennitt concert album, “Live in Paris and Toronto,” will be released Sept. 28, benefiting a fund she established for water search and safety efforts after the boating accident deaths last year of her fiance, Ronald Reese, his brother and a friend.