Bruce Springsteen teases two new studio albums and confirms that Neil Young inspired his last single

15 September 2026, 11:11

Bruce Springsteen talks up his new releases and talks about 'Streets of Minneapolis'.

Bruce Springsteen has confirmed that he has completely finished recording a new album, but he's holding it back for now.

The Boss has told Rolling Stone that he wants to finish another more timely project and release that first.

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Bruce's last studio album was 2022's soul covers album Only The Strong Survive, and his last album of newly written material was 2020's Letter To You.

"Well, I'm currently working on a couple of records," Springsteen said.

"I did finish one, and it is done. I’m in the process of working on this other one, which, because of the nature of the material, felt like it should come out first. So that's the situation I'm in.

"I’m trying to finish that up, and I’d like to release that first. And then this other record that I made, which is not time-relevant, it can come out at any time and it'll work."

Streets of Minneapolis (Live From Minneapolis)

Asked if the album would be billed as a purely solo record or be with the E Street Band, Bruce laughed: "It's a surprise."

He added that he did not currently know the release date for the album, but said it would come "hopefully sooner than later, of course".

Springsteen's last new music was the one-off single 'Streets of Minneapolis', the anti-ICE protest song released in January of this year.

And asked about the song, Bruce acknowledged its debt to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 'Ohio', Neil Young's rush-written and released response to the Kent State shootings in 1970.

Neil Young - Ohio [Live At Massey Hall 1971] (Video)

"Yeah, it was very much a child of 'Ohio'," Springsteen said.

"And it was a song that I wrote only for that moment. I didn’t know what its future might hold. It was written just for that specific moment.

"And I got good advice from [Rage Against The Machine guitarist] Tom Morello when I was frightened that I had gotten too high on the soapbox.

"He gave me that classic line that said, 'Subtlety is wonderful, but sometimes you have to kick them in the teeth'. I realised, 'Okay, this is that moment'. And that’s what that song does."