the gaslight anthem

11.17.2011

[LP] The Horrible Crowes – ELSIE (w/ “Behold The Hurricane” & “Black Betty & The Moon”)

silhouettes they haunt this house like a memory haunts me now as if it were a dream

♫ The Horrible Crowes – Behold the Hurricane

Brian Fallon is the lead singer of New Jersey’s awesome The Gaslight Anthem. Brian Fallon is also the lead singer of his mellowed out side project (with his guitar tech Ian Perkins). I’m really shocked at how …

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01.28.2011

The Best Albums of 2010 (LPs, Eps, & Honorable Mentions)

Oh 2010, what a year you were. Not only were you The Burning Ear’s first full calendar year, but you bombarded us with so much amazing music. Great albums from old favorites, fresh faces, and even genres we didn’t even knew we liked. Thanks 2010. You were awesome and we won’t forget you. Cheers to …

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06.30.2010

THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM are a heavyweight BOXER of an AMERICAN band and SLANG is a solid round two

you found the bandages inside the pen and the stitches on the radio

♫ The Gaslight Anthem – Boxer

The Gaslight Anthem’s debut full length was one of those discs that hit me from left field and completely dominated my driving playlist for most of the summer of 2008. The band managed to channel an American legend like Bruce Springsteen …

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04.30.2010

} TBE Digest 8 – 4.30.10 [Blur, Hole, Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem, Passion Pit, Nada Surf...]

How-dilly, ho-dilly, neighbors! I’m currently cooking up all kinds of excitement behind the scenes here at TBE so I’m not gonna stick around and chat. You know the deal, these are the jams that are more ‘newsworthy’ then ‘noteworthy’ so that you can stay up to speed on all the latest music hitting the web without reading as many damn …

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06.04.2009

The Rural Alberta Advantage: Interview/live show at The Bell House, Brooklyn, 5/29/09

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This is a post where I recap a lot of exciting things so prepare yourself accordingly.

The Rural Alberta Advantage is Nils, Paul, and Amy. They self-released a record called Hometowns which was one of my favorites of 2008. Having just signed to Saddle Creek they will be re-releasing that record on July 7th. This is exciting for many reasons, …

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02.08.2009

What Up ’08? (part 1)

2008 was a great year for music, blah blah blah. In fact it was a fucking santoGOLDEN year for music but you probably read some “Best Of 2008″ lists like Forever Ago in some other Day & Age. In fact, you probably still remember when we got our Sex set On Fire, someone Lykked our Li, Hercules had a Love …

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