“The Diamond Church Street Choir” from the Gaslight Anthem’s just-released-today record American Slang has been my song of the week. Sadly, I can’t seem to embed it, so here you go. It’s a pretty and pride-filled ode to New Brunswick of the sort you get from the city’s better punk bands (Sticks & Stones, Lifetime). [...]

NPR is streaming the new Gaslight Anthem record. How do I know that? Because my mother emailed to tell me. There are a lot of happy Tri-State Area moms right now. I want to wait to write a proper review of American Slang, which I obtained illegally last month, but to be up front about [...]

New Gaslight Anthem track. Good to stream, especially if you watched the bill signing. Although the “When it was over/ I woke up alone” line might better apply to this.

Rockin’ Brunswick – 1983 from Joe Machos on Vimeo.Via Michael Calderone, a 1983 account of the music scene in the city where the two of us went to college. Long before Lifetime and Sticks & Stones and the Bouncing Souls and the Degenerics and Stormshadow and Kovax and Thursday and the Gaslight Anthem and so [...]