Bruce Springsteen to release Asbury Park concert box set. The Boss' “homecoming” live performance, recorded in 2024, will arrive in stores on the occasion of Record Store Day, in a limited edition: a 5Lp box or a triple CD.
The concert was held on September 15, 2024 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, during the Sea.Hear.Now Festival, with the full E Street Band. Over three and a half hours of music for a show with a strong symbolic value, linked to Springsteen's return to the city that marked his debut. The official title of the release will be “Live From Asbury Park 2024” and is scheduled for release on April 18th.
Watch the full concert below.
Springsteen made no secret of the importance of that evening, calling it one of the best concerts the band ever played in a 2025 Rolling Stone interview: “I consider it one of the five or three best concerts we've ever done.” A judgment that weighs heavily, considering a career built on thousands of live dates.
The setlist, designed specifically for the occasion, included songs deeply linked to its history and that of Asbury Park, such as “Blinded By The Light”, “Thundercrack”, “Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?” and “4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)”, restoring the sense of a return to origins in front of the home audience.
In the same interview, Springsteen underlined the emotional value of the context: having returned to play in a city that had experienced a long decline for decades and witnessing its rebirth, right on that beach, represented one of the most intense moments of his artistic and personal life.
Record Store Day, the international day dedicated to independent record stores, returns on Saturday 18 April, with a particularly rich and transversal 2026 edition.
For this year the ambassador is Bruno Mars, who for the occasion releases the collection “The Collaborations”, a project that brings together some of his most recognizable partnerships: “Uptown Funk” with Mark Ronson, “Die With A Smile” with Lady Gaga, up to the recent “APT.” with ROSÉ.
Among the most curious new releases, “No Country for Old Men” stands out, the album that unites John Densmore and Chuck D, published under the alias doPE. Space also for Robert Plant, who presents the EP “Saving Grace: All That Glitters…”, a work rooted in folk and American tradition, with reinterpretations by Gillian Welch and Bert Jansch.
As per tradition, Record Store Day dedicates ample space to anniversaries. We celebrate fifty years of Rory Gallagher's “Calling Card” and Motörhead's “On Parole”, the latter remixed by Steven Wilson. Then comes the forty years of “Some Candy Talking” by The Jesus And Mary Chain, “Live in Hollywood” by Dinosaur Jr. and the reissue of “Body of Song” by Bob Mould.
There is no shortage of historical rereadings and recoveries: the return of “Being Boiled” by the Human League, the Soft Cell remixes inspired by the Danceteria club and the punk celebration of twenty-five years of “Jubilee” by the Sex Pistols.
Other anniversaries include thirty-five years of MC 900 ft.'s “Welcome To My Dream.” Jesus and the thirty years of “This Film's Crap, Let's Slash the Seats”, David Holmes' debut, available for the first time on vinyl. Also announced are new editions of Primal Scream's “Echo Dek,” Jeff Buckley's “Live À L'Olympia,” Tony Bennett's “MTV Unplugged,” Nas' “God's Son,” Sophie Ellis-Bextor's “Read My Lips,” Mark Knopfler's “All The Roadrunning” featuring Emmylou Harris, and St. Germain's “African Project Remixes.”
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