Columbia Records has announced a Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s Magic Tour Highlights digital EP due on July 15th at all digital download stores, including the iTunes Store. The release will feature four audio tracks with four accompanying videos, all recorded live in concert during the “Magic” tour. From the looks of it, it will also whet the fan appetite for a full-on live collection from the tour, which is currently doing bang-up business in Europe filling stadiums, then returning to the U.S. for stadium shows in late July and August.

The Magic Tour Highlights features guest appearances on the following tracks:

1. “Always A Friend” (performed with Alejandro Escovedo) - Recording Date: 04/14/2008 (Houston, Texas)

2. “The Ghost of Tom Joad” (performed with Tom Morello) - Recording Date: 04/07/2008 (Anaheim, California) 

3. “Turn Turn Turn” (performed with Roger McGuinn) - Recording Date: 04/23/2008 (Orlando, Florida)

4. “4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)” (Danny Federici’s final performance with the E Street Band not long before his passing - Recording Date: 03/20/2008 (Indianapolis, Indiana)

The artists, songwriters, and music publishers are waiving all of their royalties, and Columbia Records is donating all of its net profits to the Danny Federici Melanoma Fund, while the iTunes Store is donating their first year’s net profits.

Some other tour cameos are missing, such as members of Arcade Fire joining Springsteen and company on stage in Canada for Arcade Fire’s own “Keep the Car Running.” But there’s always a multi-disc CD or DVD set that would be just ripe for the holidays, no?

Meanwhile, a figure in Sprinsteen mythos passed aways last week: Asbury Park fortune-teller and boardwalk icon, Madam Marie Castello.  She was 93.

She once told Springsteen he was destined for big things, and in his 1973 song ”4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy),” he sang, “The cops finally busted Madam Marie, for tellin’ fortunes better than they do.” 

In a posting on his website, BruceSpringsteen.net, he wrote: ”I’d sit across from her on the metal guard rail bordering the beach, and watched as she led the day-trippers into the small back room where she would unlock a few of the mysteries of their future. She always told me mine looked pretty good — she was right. Over here on E Street, we will miss her.”