Bruce Springsteen to release 7 albums of unreleased songs, 'Tracks ll: The Lost Albums'

NEW YORK (AP) —

Bruce Springsteen knows what Bruce Springsteen fans want. And that's more Bruce Springsteen.

The Boss will release seven new studio albums, titled “Tracks II: The Lost Albums,” on June 27. It will contain material written and re-recorded between 1983 and 2018.

The news arrived Thursday morning via Instagram. The 83-song collection is mostly previously unreleased tracks, 74 of them never-before-heard songs, in a box set that includes a 100-page hardcover book.

In a short video clip posted to the social media platform, Springsteen explains that during the COVID-19 pandemic, he began completing “everything I had in my vault,” he says. “The Lost Albums are records that were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released.”

Springsteen first teased the records on Wednesday morning. A short video posted to his Instagram account revealed that something called “The Lost Albums" was forthcoming, along with Thursday's date, April 3, 2025. The clip also featured text that read “What was lost has been found.”

The caption urged his followers to head to www.lostalbums.net. It led to a subscription webpage and featured the dates “1983-2018."

“Tracks ll" follows his first “Tracks” volume. Released in 1998, it was a 4-CD, 66-song collection of unreleased material.

Springsteen released his last studio album, “Only the Strong Survive,” in 2022. It was a collection of covers, the Boss taking on classics from the Four Tops, Temptations, Supremes, Frankie Wilson, Jimmy Ruffin and others.

The late soul legend Sam Moore, a frequent Springsteen collaborator, sang on two of the cuts.

“I wanted to make an album where I just sang,” Springsteen said in a statement at the time. “And what better music to work with than the great American songbook of the Sixties and Seventies?"

Next month, Springsteen and the E Street band will embark on a tour of Europe and the U.K., beginning May 17 at Co-op Live in Manchester, England, and concluding on July 3 in Milan, Italy, at the San Siro Stadium.

This story corrects headline to add dropped letter in album's name.

FILE - Bruce Springsteen performs at Stand Up For Heroes in New York on Nov. 1, 2016. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP, File)

WREXHAM, Wales (AP) — Wrexham’s celebrity owners are swapping the boardroom for the commentary booth to mark five years since their game-changing takeover of the Welsh soccer club.

Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac, who was formerly called Rob McElhenney, will take the mic for Wrexham's home match against fellow Welsh team Swansea in the Championship on Friday. They will be calling the game on British broadcaster Sky Sports and will be joined by guests throughout.

“As with our decision to take over Wrexham five years ago, we genuinely have no idea how this is going to go," Reynolds and Mac said, "but we will give it our best.

“Neither of us have called a sporting event of any variety, let alone a sport we basically learned the rules of five years ago.”

The Hollywood pair finalized their purchase of Wrexham for $2.5 million in February 2021, when the club was in the non-league fifth tier of the English game. Wrexham, which has become the subject of a fly-on-the-wall documentary — “Welcome to Wrexham” — that has given the team and city global notoriety, has achieved three straight promotions and is one more away from playing in the Premier League.

Wrexham is in sixth place, which represents the final playoff spot, with 10 games remaining.

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Wrexham co-owner Ryan Reynolds, right, with Wrexham Director Shaun Harvey on the pitch ahead of the English FA Cup fifth round soccer match between at Wrexham and Chelsea in Wrexham, Wales, Saturday March 7, 2026. (Martin Rickett/PA via AP)

Wrexham co-owners Rob Mac, front, and Ryan Reynolds embrace after Wrexham scored during the fifth round FA Cup soccer match between Wrexham and Chelsea in Wrexham, Wales, Saturday, March 7, 2026. (Nick Potts/PA via AP)

Wrexham co-owners Rob Mac, right, and Ryan Reynolds celebrate after VAR ruled Wrexham's goal onside during the fifth round FA Cup soccer match between Wrexham and Chelsea in Wrexham, Wales, Saturday, March 7, 2026. (Nick Potts/PA via AP)

Actors and Wrexham owners Ryan Reynolds, center, and Rob McElhenney stand on the pitch after the fifth round FA Cup soccer match between Wrexham and Chelsea in Wrexham, Wales, Saturday, March 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Jon Super)