Bruce Springsteen's Sea.Hear.Now Festival Set to Rock Record Store Day
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's headlining performance at the 2024 Sea.Hear.Now festival is slated for release as a special 5LP/3CD set on Record Store Day. This release captures a unique and nostalgic performance.
The 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 marked a poignant homecoming for Springsteen. He deviated from his standard setlist, opting for rarities like “Blinded By the Light,” “Thundercrack,” “Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?,” and “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy).” These tracks hark back to his early days playing in the then-dilapidated Asbury Park clubs during the 1970s. This time, he performed before 35,000 fans on the revitalized town's beach.
“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, 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 also has a new solo album in the works, slated for release this year. He described it as “political” in nature. It remains to be seen if it will echo the topicality of “Streets of Minneapolis,” his reaction to the clashes between ICE and protesters in Minnesota. Plans for touring the album are also unclear.
Last year, he indicated that extensive tours like the 130-date one he concluded last summer are unlikely in the future. “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.”
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