Comeback kids

September is always a busy month for new music. And, apparently, all your favorite or forgotten artists of the past decade—and the ’90s, too—are showing up with new albums.

No Doubt returns from a long hiatus in which Gwen Stefani blew up with two solo albums and became a paparazzi magnet. Push and Shove, out Sept. 25, is the band’s first album since 2001’s dancehall-style Rock Steady.

The award for biggest gap in new music goes to Ben Folds Five, which split for more than a decade while Ben Folds focused on his guy-and-a-piano thing. The band’s first album since 1999, The Sound of the Life of the Mind, drops Sept. 18.

Nelly Furtado returns six years after her last English-language album, 2006’s Timbaland-certified Loose, with some life affirmation in The Spirit Indestructible, due Sept. 18.

Green Day keeps the concept album alive with the first in a trilogy—and the band’s latest since 2009—ˇUno!, due Sept. 25.

And our 1996 selves are still wondering whatever happened to Matchbox Twenty. A band that sort of sounds like them was still making music into 2007, and that band’s next album, North, comes out Sept. 4.

Besides that, September sees the return of several indie groups following up critically acclaimed previous efforts (Animal Collective, Sept. 4, Grizzly Bear, Sept. 18) and the sophomore efforts of some ridiculously successful indie debuts (The xx, Sept. 11, Mumford & Sons, Sept. 25).