The Gaslight Anthem

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The Gaslight Anthem
The Gaslight Anthem in 2008
The Gaslight Anthem in 2008
General information
Genre (s) Punk rock , indie rock , alternative rock
founding 2005
resolution 2015 (break)
Website www.thegaslightanthem.com
Last occupation
Brian Fallon
Alex Levine
Benny Horowitz
Alex Rosamilia

The Gaslight Anthem is an American rock band from New Brunswick . According to their own statements, the band was influenced by Bruce Springsteen as well as by punk rock bands like the Bouncing Souls . At Allmusic The Gaslight Anthem with are Hot Water Music and Jawbreaker compared.

The band was named after The Gaslight Cafe in New York, where u. a. Bob Dylan had appeared.

Band history

The Gaslight Anthem was founded in 2005. Her first album, Sink or Swim , was released in summer 2007 on the independent label XOXO Records. In May 2008 the EP Señor and the Queen followed. In Germany, both records were released via Gunner Records. The follow-up The '59 Sound was produced by Ted Hutt, a founding member of Flogging Molly , published by SideOneDummy and reached number 70 in the American album charts . On this album you can hear Chris Wollard from Hot Water Music as a guest singer. In June 2008 the band made it onto the cover of the British music magazine Kerrang , which carried the slogan The Best New Band You'll Hear In 2008! used. The album The '59 Sound was voted third among the 50 best records of 2008 by Visions magazine .

In 2010 The Gaslight Anthem appeared on the tour for their third studio album American Slang at the Hurricane Festival , Southside Festival , Highfield Festival and Area 4, among others . In autumn 2010 they also toured Europe with support from Chuck Ragan and Sharks . In 2011 they performed at the Centerstage at Rock am Ring and at the Vainstream Rockfest in Münster. On their tour in 2012 on the occasion of the release of the commercially extremely successful record Handwritten , they were accompanied by Blood Red Shoes and Dave Haus in Germany . Her fifth album Get Hurt was released on August 12, 2014.

On July 29, 2015, the band announced via Facebook that they would be taking an indefinite break after their European tour in August 2015 and that they would no longer perform together for the time being. The band members want to devote themselves to their solo projects for the future.

In January 2018, TGA announced that it would perform together again for the first time at the Governor's Ball in New York from June 1 to 3, 2018. For the tenth birthday of the album The 59 Sound , the Gaslight Anthem are playing a small tour with only ten concerts, including two exclusive Germany concerts in Cologne's Palladium.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The '59 sound
  UK 55 
gold
gold
07/11/2009 (2 weeks)
  US 70 09/06/2008 (1 week)
American slang
  DE 8th 07/02/2010 (9 weeks)
  AT 33 07/02/2010 (3 weeks)
  CH 34 04/07/2010 (1 week)
  UK 18th 
silver
silver
06/26/2010 (3 weeks)
  US 16 07/03/2010 (6 weeks)
Handwritten
  DE 2 08/03/2012 (11 weeks)
  AT 5 08/03/2012 (5 weeks)
  CH 12 08/05/2012 (5 weeks)
  UK 2 
silver
silver
08/04/2012 (7 weeks)
  US 3 08/11/2012 (8 weeks)
The B-Sides
  DE 70 02/14/2014 (1 week)
  AT 63 02/14/2014 (1 week)
  CH 91 02/02/2014 (1 week)
  UK 63 02/08/2014 (1 week)
  US 82 02/15/2014 (1 week)
Get hurt
  DE 3 08/22/2014 (5 weeks)
  AT 9 08/22/2014 (4 weeks)
  CH 14th 08/17/2014 (2 weeks)
  UK 4th 08/23/2014 (4 weeks)
  US 4th 08/30/2014 (5 weeks)
The '59 Sound Sessions
  DE 17th 06/22/2018 (1 week)
Singles
45
  UK 75 08/04/2012 (1 week)

Albums

  • 2007 Sink or Swim
  • 2008 The '59 Sound
  • 2010 American slang
  • 2012 handwritten
  • 2014 The B-Sides
  • 2014 Get Hurt
  • 2018 The '59 Sound Sessions

EPs

  • 2008 Señor and the Queen (2 × 7 ″ / 10 ″)
  • 2008 The Sink or Swim Demos (7 ″)
  • 2009 Live at Park Ave. (10 ″)
  • 2011 Hold You Up (10 " )

Singles

  • 2008 The '59 Sound (The '59 Sound)
  • 2008 Old White Lincoln (The '59 Sound)
  • 2009 Great Expectations (The '59 Sound)
  • 2010 The Backseat (digital only) (The '59 Sound)
  • 2010 American Slang (American Slang)
  • 2010 Tumblin 'Dice / She Loves You (American Slang Bonus or 7 inch vinyl)
  • 2011 Bring It On (American Slang)
  • 2011 Stay Lucky (American Slang)
  • 2012 45 (handwritten)
  • 2012 Here Comes My Man (Handwritten)
  • 2014 Get Hurt (Get Hurt)
  • 2014 Stay Vicious (Get Hurt)
  • 2014 Rolling and Tumbling (Get Hurt)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Gaslight Anthem on Allmusic, accessed September 8, 2008
  2. ^ Early Bob Dylan: Classic Photographs from the 1960s . Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on August 3, 2010. Retrieved April 28, 2014: "Bob Dylan stands between Ralph Rinzler and John Herald of the folk and bluegrass group the Greenbriar Boys at the Gaslight nightclub in New York City, 1959."
  3. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  4. ↑ Kerrang.com for the 06/2008 edition ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 8, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.kerrang.com
  5. ↑ hurricane.de
  6. ↑ The Gaslight Anthem: Greater Halls
  7. ↑ http://www.gaslightanthem-fans.de/ fansite, viewed October 26, 2012
  8. ↑ The Gaslight Anthem are performing their 2008 album 'The '59 Sound' at the Governors Ball. Upsetmagazine, January 3, 2018, accessed on January 4, 2018.
  9. ↑ http://www.thegaslightanthem.com/tour
  10. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK

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