The Gaslight Anthem rocking out for "Get Hurt"

The Gaslight Anthem play to spastic dancers in the music video for their dramatic new single "Get Hurt," the second single and title track from American rock band's just-released fifth studio album. Musically, the song continues where their major label debut "Handwritten" left off, moving the band into smoother sonic territory. With its big chorus and the polished production, "Get Hurt" is a far cry from their punk-meets-Bruce Springsteen early days. The video features a modern dance theme, with dancers appearing alongside the band, who are playing in a lavish barroom.
Breaking away from their by now trademark South Jersey, cruising with the radio on brand of punk rock that first got them noticed, the band is feeling particularly emotional on their new album. Strip away the glossy, nostalgic lines touting vinyl records, handwritten letters and grandma's old radio, the New Brunswick rock four-piece have cashed in time and time again on nods to old-school hot rods, blue collars and frontman Brian Fallon's ceaseless heartache. But "Get Hurt" finds catharsis, strength in endless heartache as Fallon seems to have recognized the painful pattern. It might be about heartbreak (an upside-down heart forms the cover art), but Fallon has always written about such stuff.
The album's slow-building title track, is a surprisingly Killers-esque turn for a band who used to occupy the middle ground between Bruce Springsteen and Social Distortion. The modern, alternative ballad, featured a hard-rock sound, offers plenty of melodrama, building to an intense sing-along classic, sparkles with the kind of romance and vulnerability that has become one of the band's hallmarks but at the same time the atmospheric, expansive sound signals a progression in favor of a more nuanced approach.
The video takes place in one of those dimly-lit, old-timey and run-down dive bars where full of half-drunk, half-sleepy people. But when the Jersey boys start rocking out to their anthemic title track, they're not entertaining just any old rowdy crowd; instead, the bar denizens hop up and start doing some spastic interpretive dancing as soon as the chorus kicks in. It ends, as it must, with a pretty lady in particular gives it her all, dancing amid a flurry of pillow feathers as red light bathes the room. It's pretty silly! Watch it below.

The Gaslight Anthem Released "Handwritten"

New Jerseys finest, The Gaslight Anthem, a.k.a. Bruce Springsteen's favorite new band, return this Summer with a powerful new video for the title track "Handwritten," from quartet's upcoming fourth full-length release and major-label debut, will be released tomorrow. The track is one of the best songs on the album, the guitar overlay in the interlude to the chorus is amazing, it's a perfect example of The Gaslight Anthem sound and such a beautiful use of a simple harmony.
The Jersey four-piece indie rockers have paved the way in their hometown's notorious rock 'n' roll flavor with a refreshing sense of honesty, and replete with manly yearning and stymied loves, there is something inevitable about how much former punks The Gaslight Anthem sound like Bruce Springsteen. "Handwritten," takes them further away from their independent "punk Springsteen" roots into Boss-sized would-be stadium rock with a nod to Celtic-influenced Brit rockers Big Country and the Alarm.
When a songwriter reflects the raw and brittle shade to his honesty, it becomes difficult to resist what he has to say and like so many composers before him, the lead vocals Brian Fallon's heart has its scars and band-aids and the way it bleeds is truly magnetic. "Handwritten" isn't as nostalgic as The Gaslight Anthem's earlier discog and that's because through a more immediate supply of fleshed out rock anthems, the New Jersey collective put a focus on tearing out emotions from memories and putting them to words, chords and rhythms.
Drummer Benny Horowitz came up with the concept of the cyclical tale of a record's life cycle and focuses on how it can mean the world to someone while being just a piece of junk to another. In the Kevin Slack-directed clip, a musician takes a song he came up with from the garage to the stage one evening where a young couple in the audience enthusiastically embraces the track. After getting such a strong reaction, the song is pressed into a record, which the girl later finds in the record store and buys for her boyfriend with a note sharing how much that moment in time meant to them.