Bleachers took the sadness out of Saturday night…or rather Monday morning (Dec. 7) when they shared a heartwarming performance of their new Bruce Springsteen collaboration, “Chinatown.”
The group delivered the track from a fitting location, the roof of Electric Lady Studios in New York City, where the song was recorded. Springsteen and Bleachers frontman Jack Antonoff are seen surrounded by festive strings of lights and foliage, while the band is higher up, playing their instruments against a Greenwich Village backdrop.
“I go to Electric Lady every day to work,” Antonoff said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “I sit on the roof for hours and hours. Probably spent more time on that roof this year than my bed. Kept imagining the band up there on all the different levels playing on 8th Street with everything patched into the console of studio D. Was the first time we played these songs and the first time we played together since the pandemic. Was like a dream.”
“I’ll take you out of the city / Honey, right into the shadow / ‘Cause I wanna find tomorrow / Yeah, I wanna find tomorrow / With a girl like you,” they sing in the nostalgic chorus. Bleachers also shared a performance of “45,” which will appear alongside “Chinatown” on the band’s upcoming album. The as-of-yet-untitled project set to arrive in 2021 follows 2017’s Gone Now.
Watch the “Chinatown” performance below.
