{"id":279946,"date":"2026-09-05T23:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T23:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279946\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T23:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T23:24:10","slug":"bruce-springsteens-philadelphia-land-of-hope-and-dreams-show-is-now-a-concert-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279946\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen\u2019s Philadelphia \u2018Land of Hope and Dreams\u2019 show is now a concert film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \"><a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/bruce-springsteen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Springsteen<\/a> and the E Street Band\u2019s Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour had its grand finale at the Xfinity Mobile Arena in South Philly this spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">That May 30 concert \u2014 originally scheduled for earlier in the month but moved <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/bruce-springsteen-tour-philadelphia-reschedule-sixers-20260503.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/bruce-springsteen-tour-philadelphia-reschedule-sixers-20260503.html\">due to a scheduling conflict with a Sixers playoff game<\/a> \u2014 was the culmination of a tour built around \u201cStreets of Minneapolis,\u201d the anti-ICE protest song Springsteen penned after the deaths of Renee Goode and Alex Pretti at the hands of U.S. immigration and border enforcement officers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Now, the Philadelphia show is going to be a concert film titled Land of Hope and Dreams (Philadelphia Freedom Cut), which will begin streaming on YouTube on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">As of Saturday afternoon, Springsteen had not officially announced the film or any details surrounding it via his social media or a press release. But a trailer for the film appeared on the Bruce Springsteen.net website on Friday afternoon, labeled \u201cStreaming September 9.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The Philadelphia show began with a speech \u2014 as did all the shows on the tour, which opened in Minneapolis in March and played to sold-out arenas across the country, as well as one stadium date, at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">In it, Springsteen called President <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s administration \u201ccorrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless, and treasonous.\u201d Trump, in response, has called the Jersey rocker \u201cdumb as a rock\u201d and \u201cnot a talented guy,\u201d among other insults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p type-interstitial text-primary\">\u00bb READ MORE: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-link-type=\"interstitial\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/entertainment\/music\/bruce-sprigsteen-land-of-hope-dreams-philadelphia-concert-review-20260531.html\" class=\"no-underline text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\">Bruce Springsteen\u2019s \u2018Land of Hope and Dreams\u2019 Philadelphia show was an unabashedly partisan, spirit-lifting revival meeting that sounded astoundingly good<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">In The Inquirer\u2019s review of the May 30 show, I called the show \u201ca thrilling, sharply-focused marathon that played like an unabashedly partisan spirit-lifting revival meeting \u2014 and sounded astoundingly good in a cavernous sports arena \u2014 as the band roared through a standard Springsteen-length 3 hour show that included 27 songs and several spoken interludes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">The show, with guitarist Tom Morello guesting on several songs, featured covers of Edwin Starr\u2019s \u201cWar,\u201d the Clash\u2019s \u201cClampdown\u201d and Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cChimes of Freedom,\u201d as well as Springsteen\u2019s own protest songs, such as \u201cAmerican Skin (41 Shots).\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Watch the trailer, which begins with Springsteen stating the obvious \u2014 \u201cIt is great to be in Philadelphia\u201d \u2014 below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band\u2019s Land of Hope and Dreams American&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[117116,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-279946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-bruce-springsteen-land-of-hope-and-dreams-philadelphia-concert-film-youtube","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}