PAM SPRINGSTEEN
Bruce Springsteen sings “Tenth Avenue Freeze-out” at The Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia, on May 30.
Bruce Springsteen has released Part 4 of his “Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour (Philadelphia Freedom Cut)” concert film. This features the encore section of the show, ending with a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Chimes of Freedom”; you can watch it below.
The film documents Springsteen’s May 30, 2026 concert with The E Street Band at the Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia.
Springsteen exhorts his fans, in his introduction to “Chimes of Freedom”: “Find a way to take aggressive, peaceful action to defend our country’s ideals. Do as the great Civil Rights leader John Lewis said: Go out and get in some good trouble. Say something, do something, sing something. If you’re feeling helpless, if you’re feeling hopeless, if you’re feeling angry, if you’re feeling betrayed, if you’re feeling frustrated, I understand. That’s why we’re here tonight. We needed to feel your strength and your hope and your faith, and we needed to bring you some strength and some hope and some faith. I hope we did that for you, Philadelphia, tonight.”
In early September, when Part 1 was released, Springsteen was asked by Rolling Stone if the unusual method of releasing this film had anything to do with the midterm elections, and said:
Well, it wasn’t specifically planned to fall into the midterms, but if it does, that’s great. Really, we just had Thom (Zimny) do the first seven songs to see what we had. I didn’t know what the show was like on film. He basically cut, edited, and we got the sound good on the first seven pieces. When I saw it, I said, “This has got to come out now.”
I can’t wait another three, four months for the rest of the concert to be edited and have it finished. The whole thing, the pop-up tour, was about immediacy and being in this moment, providing something that I felt an audience, my audience, could use in this moment.
The film is being released in memory of the late writer and activist Dave Marsh, a longtime friend of Springsteen’s.
Here is the setlist of the show (which concluded Springsteen’s Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour), with all the videos embedded after the segments of the show they contain.
“War” (with Tom Morello)
“Born in the U.S.A.” (with Tom Morello)
“Death to My Hometown” (with Tom Morello)
“Clampdown” (with Tom Morello)
“No Surrender”
“Darkness on the Edge of Town”
“Streets of Minneapolis”
“The Promised Land”
“Two Hearts”
“Hungry Heart”
“Youngstown”
“Murder Incorporated”
“American Skin (41 Shots)” (with Tom Morello)
“Long Walk Home” (with Tom Morello)
“House of a Thousand Guitars”
“My City of Ruins”
“Because the Night”
“Wrecking Ball”
“The Rising”
“The Ghost of Tom Joad” (with Tom Morello)
“Badlands” (with Tom Morello)
“Land of Hope and Dreams” (with Tom Morello)
Encore:
“American Land” (with Tom Morello)
“Born to Run”
“Dancing in the Dark”
“Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” (with Tom Morello)
“Chimes of Freedom” (with Tom Morello)
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