Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s headlining set at the 2024 Sea.Hear.Now festival will be released as a 5LP/3CD set for Record Store Day on April 18.
The concert was a nostalgic homecoming for Springsteen, who put aside his standard set list for the evening and trotted out rarities like “Blinded By the Light, “Thundercrack,” “Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?,” and “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)” that he wrote when he was still playing clubs around a dilapidated Asbury Park in the early 1970s. But at this show, he was in front of 35,000 fans on the beach of the restored town.
“I put that in one of the top five or three shows we’ve ever done,” Springsteen told Rolling Stone in 2025. “That’s how special it was for me anyway. And partly because I was in that town when there was no one there, when it was a ghost town. I mean, Asbury Park was a complete and utter ghost town for 30 years, and me and the guys were there. So to be there for its rebirth and when it came back to life, and to see that happen on that beach in front of us on a beautiful September night was one of the loveliest performing experiences of my life.”
Other Record Store Day releases include Neil Young & the Chrome Hearts’ The Live Album, which chronicles their 2024 world tour, Olivia Dean’s BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, The Doors’ John Densmore and Public Enemy’s Chuck D new collaborative LP doPE, 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 that’s just a tiny part of the complete list. Here is the massive list of RSD offerings.)
Springsteen, meanwhile, has a new solo album in the can he plans on releasing this year. He said it’ll be “political” in nature, though it’s unclear if it’ll be as topical as “Streets of Minneapolis,” his reaction to the bloody battles between ICE and protesters in Minnesota. It’s also unclear if he plans on taking the album on the road.
But last year, he told Rolling Stone not to expect any more epic tours like the 130-date one he completed last summer. “I had to get back in touch with my audience, and it was fun playing with the band,” he said, “in the future, I think we’ll probably play more often and less dates.”
