EXCLUSIVE: Days after Bruce Springsteen released his poignant ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ song over the killing of two Americans by ICE agents, the Boss is in the Minnesota city to perform as a part of today’s National Shutdown protest.
Joining E Street Band tour vet Tom Morello, Springsteen will be taking the stage at the iconic First Avenue club this afternoon, Deadline has confirmed. No word on how many songs Springsteen will put on.
Rage Against the Machine co-founder Morello teased the rock legend’s appearance online earlier this week.
Reps for the CAA signed Springsteen did not respond to request for comment on his aim to preform in Minneapolis today. Coming after months and months of raids, abductions, violence and repression on the part of the feds, the recent shooting killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the Minnesota capital has galvanized the nation and the world against the overreach of the MAGA administration.
Today’s Shutdown protest has called for “No work. No school. No shopping. Stop funding ICE” b Americans as a way of making their anger and demand for change known. Business big and small have closed their doors Friday and even production on Grey’s Anatomy has closed down in allegiance.
No stranger to taking political stances in his music and in his support of causes and candidates, Springsteen has been a relentless critic of the cruel and authoritarian polices of Donald Trump. Having stumped for Kamala Harris in 2024, the “Born in the USA” superstar has been even more outspoken against the ex-Apprentice host since Trump’s return to power last year.
That criticism went to a whole new level with the sudden dropping of Streets of Minneapolis online and streaming on January 28. After slamming “King Trump and his private army,” the 76-year-old Springsteen released a video of the song followed the next day.
Also on January 29, the clearly piqued White House trashed Springsteen and the song as “irrelevant” and “inaccurate.” Last year, as the Jeremy Allen White-starring Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere was hitting cinemas and as the Boss called out Trump’s “a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration, POTUS called the Springsteen a “dried-out prune of a rocker.”
Clearly still rocking, not so dried out.
