Bruce Springsteen has released a “Philadelphia Freedom Cut” from his “Land of Hope and Dreams” American tour, offering a filmed look at the E Street Band’s May 30 performance in Philadelphia.
The official video is available now. The complete show was recorded at Xfinity Mobile Arena and will be issued in four chronological installments.
This opening installment presents the first seven songs from the Philadelphia finale, which took place at the Xfinity Mobile Arena.
Springsteen opened with the Motown classic “War,” originally written by Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield, before moving through “Born in the U.S.A.” and “Death to My Hometown.”
He then performed The Clash’s “Clampdown,” followed by “No Surrender,” “Darkness on the Edge of Town” and the politically charged 2026 song “Streets of Minneapolis,” written in response to the January killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretty by ICE officers.
“I’m thrilled to be releasing our final show from the ‘Land of Hope and Dreams’ American tour — recorded in the birthplace of American freedom, Philadelphia, USA,” Springsteen said.
“On the tour, we rocked the house from one end of the country to the other and, while we were at it, we spoke up everywhere in defense of our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our sacred democracy — which are under attack by a lawless President and his regime. It’s all captured on our ‘Philadelphia Freedom Cut’ — hope you enjoy it.”
The musicians joining Springsteen on the tour included the E Street Band’s Roy Bittan (piano, synthesizer), Nils Lofgren (guitar, vocals), Garry Tallent (bass guitar), Stevie Van Zandt (guitar, vocals) and Max Weinberg (drums), along with Soozie Tyrell (violin, guitar, vocals), Jake Clemons (saxophone) and Charlie Giordano (organ, keyboards, accordion).
Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello also performed with Springsteen and the E Street Band for each of the tour’s 20 shows as a special guest.
The “Philadelphia Cut” was directed by Chris Hilson and Thom Zimny, with Springsteen serving as a producer alongside Jon Landau, Zimny and Adrienne Gerard. The video was released in memory of rock critic and author Dave Marsh, who died in August at 76.
Part one of the “Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour (Philadelphia Freedom Cut)” tracklist is:
1. “War”
2. “Born in the U.S.A.”
3. “Death to My Hometown”
4. “Clampdown”
5. “No Surrender”
6. “Darkness on the Edge of Town”
7. “Streets of Minneapolis”
More details about the remaining footage from the show will be released soon, with the three additional segments scheduled for chronological release throughout the rest of 2026.
Speaking to Rolling Stone about sharing the footage in segments, Springsteen said the timing around the US midterms was purely coincidental.
“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 said. “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.”
Springsteen continued: “As soon as I saw it, I said, ‘This comes out now.’ Everybody said, ‘Well, what do we do with the rest?’ I said, ‘Well, we’ll serialise it is what we’ll do.’ And basically that’s what we’re going to do. You’ll be getting seven songs or so in four different compartments, and at the end of the day, you’ll have the whole show.”
“I think it has more impact that way. The first seven songs, to my eye, have a tremendous amount of impact because it’s only 40 minutes. And anybody can spare that 40 minutes to get an idea of what we were trying to do. It’s 40 minutes, and it says everything we wanted to say.”