Gaslight Anthem are a clean cut pop punkish/rock ‘n’ roll band from New Brunswick, NJ. I lived in New Brunswick during some formative years, so I understand where they’re coming from, even if it’s not a place I go to very often at this point. Still, the anthemic title track from The ’59 Sound — the album made it onto NME‘s year end list, the song Rolling Stone‘s — should appeal to fans of Against Me! and/or the Killers and other bands inspired by Bruce Springsteen (though I can’t pretend to understand the minds of Killers fans). The Boss was great last night, so this one’s for him. It’s also for New Jersey and for Letterman, who gets more excited about these guys than anyone in recent memory (keep that in mind, Okkervil River supporters).
“Young boys, young girls, ain’t supposed to die on a Saturday night.” That’s a pretty successful moment there. And even though Letterman almost got whacked by that bass, he’s clearly a huge fan.
The ’59 Sound is out via SideOneDummy. The guys will be at Coachella ’09.
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so you guys finally gave in. thank you.
Dave was excited by GA but not nearly as excited as he got over Airborne Toxic Event a couple weeks earlier. He was outright beaming at them after their performance with the guest strings section.
Really, this is the first post about them besides mentions in year end lists? They excited me more than any other band last year. March 18th in Montreal is way too far away.
One of my favorite albums last year. You guys are way late on the bandwagon.
I was not very taken with their performance.
Jimmy Eat World
listen to more music.
Not bad.
What’s with all the such and such gives Letterman this, serves Letterman that?
crazy to think these guys are headlining webster hall — it seems like just yesterday they were playing little diy shitholes in brooklyn.
Well it’s not a surprise Letterman likes them. His favorite band is the Foo Fighters and they aren’t that great of a leap away from them.
Observation: Bands always sound great on Conan, always sound shitty on Letterman. There were lyrics to that song at one point, right?
I watched it live, and it actually sounded worse on the broadcast. At least you can hear the vocals on the YouTube video.
Great performance of one of the best songs of last year.
Totally not my style of rock and they failed to convert me personally, but, for what they’re going for, I thought they knocked it out of the park. Congrats to them.