While touring, they will perform at the Prudential Center on April 20 in Newark, at the UBS Arena in Belmont Park, N.Y. on May 5, at Madison Square Garden in New York City on May 11 and May 16 and at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. on May 14.

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are set to kick off their politically charged Land of Hope and Dreams North America tour on March 31 in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Bruce Springsteen used to tell a story about a particular post-9/11 encounter when he was in alone in a parking lot and someone yelled, “We need you now!” That, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer said, was the impetus for his 2002 album The Rising.