This is from the Rolling Stone website, posted 28 July 2009:
All Points West's Best: 24 Can't-Miss Sets
The thing that makes All Points West, the New Jersey festival currently celebrating its second year, so special is its knack for pairing your favorite bands with your new favorite bands. To get this out of the way immediately, write down the following names: the National and the Gaslight Anthem. Those are the bands you will leave this festival loving, and the bands you can expect to see closing out festivals in a few years time. [...]
3:45-4:35 p.m. - Gaslight Anthem
The weekend's other must-see: New Jersey's Gaslight Anthem are the latest in a long line of battered, ragged troubadors with their heart on their sleeves and stars in their eyes. Their music is a blistering blend of punk raucousness and bar band bluster, like Bruce Springsteen blasting through a set of Clash covers. They play every song like it's their last, vocalist Brian Fallon pushing his voice to breaking as the band accelerates mercilessly behind him. It's no wonder Bruce himself tapped the band to open for him during a handful of shows in the U.K. Gaslight prove there's no shame in emotional honesty, and they empty themselves unabashedly with every ringing chord.
www.rollingstone.com/news/story/29392846/all_points_wests_best_24_sets_you_cant_miss
Subject: Rolling Stone on TGA 
Tue Jul 28, 2009 4:25 pm
