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Jan 03, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Governors Ball has announced the lineup for their 2018 festival, which goes down in New York City’s Randall’s Island Park the weekend of June 1 - 3. The headliners are Eminem (also announced as a Coachella headliner today), Jack White, Travis Scott, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. More
Reviews
Oct 27, 2023
By Austin Saalman
Fifteen years ago, New Jersey-founded punk rock outfit The Gaslight Anthem released its sophomore effort and ultimate masterwork The ‘59 Sound: an intensely intimate homage to vintage Americana and desperate youth on the run that remains one of its era’s key—albeit underrated—rock releases. More
Aug 20, 2014
By Daniel Kohn
Known for their gritty punk stylings that channel the workman-like spirit of Bruce Springsteen, these New Jersey natives take a dramatic step away from that sound on their first major label album. More
Jul 24, 2012
By Dan Lucas
It’s compulsory to mention the name Springsteen when talking about The Gaslight Anthem, right? If so then that’s that, given how comparisons between The Boss and his fellow New Jersey natives’ latest record Handwritten can generously be described as tenuous; I might as well talk about how I expect Tony Soprano to roll up mid-album. More
Jun 05, 2012
By Chris Tinkham
On “45,” the first single from The Gaslight Anthem’s forthcoming major-label debut, Handwritten, singer-guitarist Brian Fallon confesses, “I can’t move on and I can’t stay the same.” His lyrics to the song, which cleverly substitute the flipping of a 7” single for the common metaphors of turning the page or closing a chapter, seem to be about letting go of memories of a girl, but those quoted words aptly describe the current dilemma faced by the New Jersey band. More
