Photo Credit: Ari Cummings<\/p>\n
Last night, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band returned\u00a0to Brooklyn, N.Y.\u2019s Barclays Center on their politically\u00a0charged Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour. It was the fourth\u00a0of Springsteen\u2019s five New York Metro Area appearances\u00a0and his first stop in the Brooklyn arena since 2023. Though known to change his setlists from night to night, Springsteen has stuck to a set songlist throughout\u00a0the run, using his experience staging a show on Broadway a few years ago to create a narrative arc that mixes material from throughout his catalog into a pointed commentary on the state of American politics and a critique\u00a0of the Trump administration. (Promotional material for the run offered a direct attack, declaring \u201cno kings.\u201d)\u00a0<\/p>\n
As on all the dates of the outing, the E Street Band opened their show with their cover of The Temptations\u2019 \u201cWar,\u201d which they had not played since 2003, before the run. Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, who has subbed with the E Street Band in the past, was also a featured guest throughout the night, coming and going where the group saw fit and offering some spirited solos. In a memorable moment, he shared lead vocals with Springsteen on \u201cThe Ghost of Tom Joad,\u201d a song he regularly covered with Rage and his own outfits.<\/p>\n
While Springsteen mostly let the music speak for itself, he did address the dire state of affairs, including the Trump administration\u2019s attacks on the Voter Registration Act, the administration\u2019s willingness to hand out favors to their friends and business associates, and the murder of Alex Pretti during ICE\u2019s occupation of Minneapolis. The new original \u201cStreets of Minnanpolis\u201d and the 2001 tune \u201c41 Shots,\u201d\u00a0which addressed NYPD officers\u2019 shooting of Amadou Diallo, were natural centerpieces to the show, but even hits like \u201cBandlands,\u201d\u00a0which contains lyrics like \u201cPoor man wanna be rich\/ Rich man wanna be king\/ And a king ain\u2019t satisfied \u2019til he rules everything,\u201d felt intentional. The tour\u2019s titular song, \u201cLand of Hope and Dreams,\u201d which has been in rotation since 1999, also included a welcome bit of \u201cPeople Get Ready.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Credit: Ari Cummings Last night, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band returned\u00a0to Brooklyn, N.Y.\u2019s Barclays Center…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-233526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}