The Gaslight Anthem have announced some new tour dates. Now that’s a sentence I’m happy to be able to type again.
Read More “The Gaslight Anthem Announce Tour Dates”The Gaslight Anthem Return
The Gaslight Anthem have announced they’re back. A new album is in the works. I think I speak for everyone when I say, “let’s fucking goooooooo.”
Read More “The Gaslight Anthem Return”The Gaslight Anthem … Tease?
Brian Fallon on New Podcast
Brian Fallon is the latest guest on the Chris DeMakes podcast talking about The Gaslight Anthem’s “45.”
Benny Horowitz on New Podcast
Benny Horowitz, drummer of The Gaslight Anthem, is on the latest episode of the Podioslave Podcast.
Brian Fallon Postponing Shows, Doing ‘The ’59 Sound’ Livestream
Brian Fallon has postponed more of his upcoming tour, but announced a The ’59 Sound livestream on February 3rd.
Read More “Brian Fallon Postponing Shows, Doing ‘The ’59 Sound’ Livestream”Review: The Horrible Crowes – Elsie
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”Forgivers – “Some Future” Video
Forgivers are the new band from The Gaslight Anthem’s Alex Levine and Alex Rosamilia alongside Jed Winokur and Trevor Reddell. Today they’ve debuted a video for “Some Future.”
Read More “Forgivers – “Some Future” Video”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”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”Brian Fallon Explains Why “Have Mercy” Was Left Off ‘Get Hurt’
Brian Fallon recently explained why “Have Mercy” didn’t make The Gaslight Anthem’s Get Hurt. A fan shot video of his answer can be found below.
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Brian Fallon on the Legacy of ‘The ’59 Sound’
Jackson Sinnenberg, writing at Medium:
When we were doing the designs for merch I was like “I don’t care what I like. What do we think the people who come to our shows will like?” That’s what it should be! It’s not about me. I’m happy to be there, I’m not going to be phoning it in! I’m happy about giving it to them. I don’t look at it like it’s a bad thing. I’m happy there are people there to take it. Like if you asked Ian [MacKaye] the same way how he felt about Fugazi; “Whose band is Fugazi right now?” I bet Ian would say “Not mine, Not Guy’s. It’s their band.” It is! It’s their band! They’re maintaining the house, they’re trimming the garden because their memories do it. It’s become part of their lives now. So, it’s hands off for me.
The Gaslight Anthem Respond to Reports of Sexual Assault at Their Shows
The Gaslight Anthem posted the following on Twitter:
We’ve been angered and saddened to hear reports of sexual assault and harassment in the audience at our shows. From the very beginning of this band, we have strived to create a positive and safe environment for our fans and this kind of abhorrent behavior can not and will not be tolerated at our shows. It’s clear that this disturbing trend is on the rise in our industry, and that ignoring or dismissing the problem sends a very clear message to perpetrators that they can get away with their behavior. As a result, we want to help to shine a light on the issue and ask our fans to do the same.
We’ve reached out to the authorities and the venues that were involved in these incidents.
There are a number of amazing organizations raising awareness and providing education around this problem, including Safe Gigs For Women.
If you see something please say something, get involved, and help however you can. We want everyone looking out for each other.
The ’59 Sound (Encore Episode 159)
Hey, look what we have here, a new podcast episode. On this week’s episode of Encore I am joined by Craig Manning to discuss the ten year anniversary of one of my favorite albums of all time: The Gaslight Anthem’s The ’59 Sound.
Review: The Gaslight Anthem – The ’59 Sound
Over the course of the past 10 years, few albums from the 2000s have stuck with me quite like The ’59 Sound. One of the undeniable truths of being a consummate life soundtracker is that most of your favorite albums end up being inextricably linked to certain periods of time. You play those records so much when they’re new to you that they become a collage of moments and memories from your life. It’s a beautiful thing when that happens, but it also tends to mean your favorite LPs eventually fall out of regular rotation, as you reach for new music to play that role for new moments and memories. Most of my favorite albums fit into this category. My other 2008 classics—records like Butch Walker’s Sycamore Meadows and Jack’s Mannequin’s The Glass Passenger—are albums I revisit only every month or two, not because I don’t love them, but because they hold so many pieces of my past self within their songs. Those albums could never be life soundtracks to me today, because they already played that role at such vivid and crucial junctures of my life.
The ’59 Sound is different. It’s the rare “favorite record” in my life that isn’t tied to any one specific moment or season or year. It’s a record that has grown with me over time, one that has meant a dozen different things to me from one year to the next. Where other records I loved back then have drifted more into the background, The ’59 Sound is a record I’ve played regularly—probably once every couple weeks, at least—for the better part of the past decade. A part of the reason is probably my initial indifference to the album. The ’59 Sound got a lot of hype in 2008, but my first listens told me it was something dated and backwards-looking: songs stuck in the past that didn’t have relevance to my present. (Note: this opinion is my worst first impression of all time.) Because I was never infatuated with this album like I was with many of the LPs that came out around the same time, I never “wore it out” in the same way.