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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will release their headlining set at the 2024 Sea.Hear.Now Festival as a 5LP/3CD set for Record Store Day on April 18th.
The concert was a nostalgic homecoming for Springsteen, where he ditched his usual set list and played rarities like “Blinded By the Light,” “Thundercrack,” “Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?” and “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy),” which he wrote while still playing clubs around seedy Asbury Park in the early 1970s. However, at this show he stood in front of 35,000 fans on the beach of the rebuilt city.
“I would rank this as one of the five or three best concerts we’ve ever done,” Springsteen told ROLLING STONE in 2025. “For me, it was very special. Also because I was in this town when there was no one there, when it was a ghost town. I mean, Asbury Park was a complete ghost town for 30 years, and me and the boys were there. To be there when the town was resurrected and brought back to life, and to see it before our eyes on that beach on a beautiful September evening, was one of the most beautiful concert experiences of my life.”
Springsteen, meanwhile, has a new solo album in the pipeline that he plans to release later this year. He said it will be “more political,” although it’s unclear whether it will be as timely as “Streets of Minneapolis,” his response to the bloody clashes between ICE and protesters in Minnesota. It’s also unclear whether he plans to tour the album.
Bruce Springsteen wants to tour more but give fewer concerts
However, last year he told ROLLING STONE not to expect any more epic tours like the 130-date concert tour he completed last summer. “I needed to reconnect with my audience and it was fun playing with the band,” he said. “In the future we will probably play more often and have fewer dates.”
Other Record Store Day releases include Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts’ “The Live Album,” which documents their 2024 world tour, Olivia Dean’s “BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge,” the new collaborative LP “doPE” from The Doors’ John Densmore and Public Enemy’s Chuck D, Fall Out Boy’s “So Much For (2our) Dust: Live at Madison Square Garden,” and Brandi Carlile’s “Live at Easy Street Records Vol. II.” (And this is, of course, just a small excerpt from the full list)
