Brian Fallon didn’t NEED to make Elsie. By the time this album arrived – the one and only record Fallon made with the side project he dubbed The Horrible Crowes – Fallon was already well on his way to rock star status…or, at least, it seemed that way at the time. His full-time band, The Gaslight Anthem, had released three albums and an EP in the space of three years and about two weeks – a remarkable run that saw the band gaining ground with each release. By the time Elsie arrived in September 2011, there was already buzz brewing about Gaslight Anthem LP4, and about how that album had the potential to launch Fallon and company into a whole new stratosphere. Just about anyone else would have taken a well-deserved break. Based on the exhaustion that would eventually crash The Gaslight Anthem, maybe Fallon should have. Instead, he teamed up with his guitar tech, Ian Perkins, and made one of the great left-turn albums in 21st century rock ‘n’ roll. Some days, I think it might just be his masterpiece.
Read More “The Horrible Crowes – Elsie”Brian Fallon Announces ‘Get Hurt’ Livestream
Brian Fallon has announced a new Get Hurt livestream event.
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Brian Fallon has announced some new shows. He’ll be playing the ‘Concerts on the Green’ series at Eatontown, NJ’s Suneagles Golf Club on June 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, and then the Crossroads on December 16, 17, and 18th.
Read More “Brian Fallon Announces New Shows”Brian Fallon on New Podcast
Brian Fallon is on the latest episode of the Washed Up Emo podcast.
Read More “Brian Fallon on New Podcast”Brian Fallon Rescheduled Europe Tour Dates
Brian Fallon has announced the rescheduled tour dates for Europe and the UK.
Read More “Brian Fallon Rescheduled Europe Tour Dates”Brian Fallon Covers R.E.M
Brian Fallon covered R.E.M’s “E-Bow The Letter” for Amazon.
Read More “Brian Fallon Covers R.E.M”Brian Fallon Announces Two Shows
Brian Fallon has announced two outdoor, socially distanced, shows for June.
Read More “Brian Fallon Announces Two Shows”Brian Fallon Cancels 2021 Tour
Brian Fallon has canceled his 2021 United States tour.
Read More “Brian Fallon Cancels 2021 Tour”Brian Fallon to Livestream ‘Elsie’
Brian Fallon will be doing a livestream of The Horrible Crowes’ Elsie in full on December 3rd. Tickets are now available.
Read More “Brian Fallon to Livestream ‘Elsie’”Brian Fallon Playing ‘American Slang’ Acoustic
Brian Fallon will be playing American Slang, in full, tonight at 5pm PT via a livestream. Tickets are now available.
Read More “Brian Fallon Playing ‘American Slang’ Acoustic”Dave Hause Announces Two Cover EPs
Dave Hause will release two EPs, Patty and Paddy, on October 23rd. The EPs will feature songs by two of his favorite artists, Patty Griffin and Patrick “Paddy” Costello of Dillinger Four. The EPs will feature Brian Fallon, Will Hoge, Jake Blount, Lilly Hiatt, Laura Stevenson, and Bartees Strange, and the full press release can be found below.
Read More “Dave Hause Announces Two Cover EPs”Things I’ve Found Hiding on the Backstreets
Brian Fallon, writing at Spin:
In a time when concerts may feel like a distant memory, I find myself thinking of the ones I’ve seen — either in person or on film — that stands out as a reminder to keep me company during the waiting. With that, let’s look back at a career-defining, career-inspiring concert that was arguably undefeated among Gods and humans. I’m talking about the cold, presumably damp, and absolutely electrifying night of Nov. 18, 1975 at Hammersmith Odeon (as it was then called) in London, England. This is the site where a virtually unknown (at least to British audiences at the time), Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band would take a crowd of 3,000+ (seated) souls and usher them into the upper gates of holiness, known as New Jersey.
Brian Fallon Announces Rescheduled Tour Dates
Brian Fallon has announced rescheduled tour dates for next year.
Read More “Brian Fallon Announces Rescheduled Tour Dates”Review: The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang
The first time I ever heard American Slang was in my freshman college dorm room, just a week or two from the end of school, on a gorgeous April spring day. Now, if I’d been a law-abiding listener, the wait to hear the new album from The Gaslight Anthem—their follow-up to 2008’s acclaimed The ’59 Sound—still would have been the better part of two months. American Slang didn’t officially hit the streets until June 15. But 2010 was maybe the golden age of album leaks, and as a broke college student with a budget for little more than gas and the occasional midnight McDonald’s run with my roommate, that fact was very good news for me. It also meant that American Slang, a bulletproof summer soundtrack album, got to serve as the bookend to my first year of college, and to all the anticipation I was feeling as four months of summer approached.
When The ’59 Sound broke in 2008, The Gaslight Anthem quickly became one of the most buzzed-about rock bands in all the circles I was a part of online. Here was a band that respected classic rock traditions and made them sound new again; a band willing to pilfer from their influences in the most loving manner possible; a band whose frontman was, perhaps, worthy of being called “this generation’s Bruce Springsteen.” All that hype only became louder and louder throughout 2009 and into the early part of 2010, which meant that by the time Gaslight announced their new record, excitement for it was through the roof. A title and an album cover that seemed to promise another sweeping classic-rock-styled masterpiece? Well, who could resist that?
Read More “The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang”Butch Walker to Join Brian Fallon
Butch Walker will be the next guest on Brian Fallon’s Wednesday Instagram show.
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