Gaslight Anthem w/Cory Branan & Matrimony: at Marathon Music Works (Nashville, TN) Wed. March 6, 2013

Gaslight Anthem w/Cory Branan & Matrimony

AC Entertainment Presents

Pop/Rock

Nashville Scene Critic's Pick …

Tonight’s Gaslight Anthem appearance is a home-away-from-homecoming for the Garden State quartet. The band cut its latest LP, Handwritten, earlier this year at Nashville’s own Blackbird Studio with revered alt-rock producer Brendan O’Brien (Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen, Stone Temple Pilots, Rage Against the Machine). The album, TGA’s fourth, sees the band beefing up and honing its heart-on-sleeve conflation of pop-punk vigor, Springsteen-aspiring depth and meat-and-potatoes heartland rock that’s sure to satisfy fans of previous efforts and burrow into new ears at the same time. Especially recommended for Social Distortion fans whose love for Bouncing Souls and The Alkaline Trio rivals their love for Neil Young and Tom Waits, The Gaslight Anthem are venerable appropriators of traditional roots, rock and punk — not to mention perhaps your next favorite band. Cory Branan and Matrimony open.

—Adam Gold