Bruce Springsteen releases box set of the Asbury Park live show – Watch the full concert

Bruce Springsteen will release the box set of the Asbury Park concert. The Boss's "homecoming" live show, recorded in 2024, will hit stores for Record Store Day, in a limited edition: a 5LP box or a triple CD.

The concert took place 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 charged with symbolic weight, tied to Springsteen's return to the city where his career began. The official title of the release will be “Live From Asbury Park 2024” and it's due out on April 18.

Watch the full concert below.

Springsteen hasn't hidden the importance of that evening, calling it in a 2025 interview with Rolling Stone one of the best shows he's ever played with the band: "I consider it one of the five or three best shows we've ever done." A verdict that carries weight, given a career built on thousands of live dates.

The setlist, put together specifically for the occasion, included songs deeply tied to his 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)", conveying the sense of a return to his roots in front of the hometown crowd.

In the same interview, Springsteen underlined the emotional weight of the context: coming back to play in a town that had spent decades in long decline, and witnessing its rebirth right there on that beach, was one of the most intense moments of his artistic and personal life.

On Saturday 18 April, Record Store Day returns - the international celebration of independent record shops - with a particularly rich and wide-ranging 2026 edition.

This year's ambassador is Bruno Mars, who marks the occasion with the release of "The Collaborations", a collection bringing together some of his most recognisable partnerships: "Uptown Funk" with Mark Ronson, "Die With A Smile" with Lady Gaga, right up to the recent "APT." with ROSÉ.

Among the more curious releases is "No Country for Old Men", the album that brings together John Densmore and Chuck D, released under the alias doPE. There's also room for Robert Plant, who presents the EP "Saving Grace: All That Glitters…", a work rooted in folk and American tradition, featuring reinterpretations of Gillian Welch and Bert Jansch.

As tradition dictates, Record Store Day devotes plenty of space to anniversaries. This year marks fifty years of Rory Gallagher's "Calling Card" and Motörhead's "On Parole", the latter remixed by Steven Wilson. Also arriving are the fortieth anniversaries of "Some Candy Talking" by The Jesus And Mary Chain, "Live in Hollywood" by Dinosaur Jr., and the reissue of Bob Mould's "Body of Song".

There's no shortage of reinterpretations and historical rediscoveries either: the return of "Being Boiled" by Human League, remixes by Soft Cell inspired by the Danceteria club, and a punk celebration marking twenty-five years of "Jubilee" by the Sex Pistols.

Other anniversaries include thirty-five years of MC 900 ft. Jesus's "Welcome To My Dream" and thirty years of David Holmes' debut "This Film's Crap, Let's Slash the Seats", available on vinyl for the first time. Also announced are new editions of Primal Scream's "Echo Dek", Jeff Buckley's "Live À L'Olympia", Tony Bennett's "MTV Unplugged", Nas's "God's Son", Sophie Ellis-Bextor's "Read My Lips", Mark Knopfler's "All The Roadrunning" with Emmylou Harris, and St. Germain's "African Project Remixes".

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