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Gaslight Anthem played Lollapalooza, expand tour, playing 2 Terminal 5 shows (dates, video & setlist)

by Andrew Sacher

The Gaslight Anthem at Lollapalooza – 8/5/12 (via Daniel Johnson)
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The Gaslight Anthem released their first major label album and fourth overall, Handwritten, late last month and have been touring profusely for it throughout the year. They’ve already hit NYC twice this year, with shows at Music Hall of Williamsburg and Webster Hall. Now they’ve got a ton of more international dates scheduled for late summer into fall, and they’ll return to NYC on November 28 and 29 at Terminal 5. Tickets for both NYC shows go on sale Friday (8/10) at noon.

Handwritten has been receiving pretty mixed reactions. SPIN, Guardian and Pitchfork gave the album pretty mediocre to negative reviews, whereas the punk scene is loving it; Punknews and Altpress gave it near-perfect scores and Absolute Punk did give it a perfect score. It’s not just the punks though, Stereogum awarded it ‘album of the week’ the same week that Passion Pit and Purity Ring’s excellent albums were released. I think Handwritten is pretty great, and definitely the band’s best since The ’59 Sound. It doesn’t quite reach the heights of that album, but opening track/lead single “45” is the most immediate single since “The ’59 Sound,” and if Handwritten is an example of what major label rock sounds like in 2012, I’m very okay with that. What do you think?

The Gaslight Anthem were just in Chicago for Lollapalooza over the weekend. They performed on Sunday (8/5), playing mostly off ’59 Sound and Handwritten. If you haven’t been keeping up with our Lollapalooza coverage, pics of day 1 are HERE and pics of day 2 are HERE. Pics of day 3 are coming soon.

You can check out a video of their entire Lollapalooza set, the setlist, and a list of all upcoming tour dates below.

The Gaslight Anthem at Lollapalooza 2012 (full set)

Setlist:
1. Great Expectations
2. 45
3. Old White Lincoln
4. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
5. Howl
6. The Diamond Church Street Choir
7. Handwritten
8. The ’59 sound
9. American Slang
10. Too Much Blood
11. Here’s Looking at You, Kid
12. The Backseat

The Gaslight Anthem — 2012 Tour Dates
September 11, 2012 Agora Port de Quebec Quebec City, Quebec.*
September 12, 2012 Bell Centre Montreal, Quebec*
September 13, 2012 CE Centre Ottawa, Ontario*
September 16, 2012 Eagles Ballroom Milwaukee, Wis.*
September 17, 2012 Delta Plex Grand Rapids, Mich.*
September 20, 2012 Bayou Music Center Houston, Texas*
September 21, 2012 Concrete Street Amphitheater Corpus Christi, Texas*
September 24, 2012 Fillmore Auditorium Denver, Colo.*
September 25, 2012 Fillmore Auditorium Denver, Colo.*
September 28, 2012 Tempe Beach Park Tempe, Ariz.*
September 29, 2012 Honda Center Anaheim, Calif.*
October 1, 2012 The Joint Las Vegas, Nev.*
October 2, 2012 Grand Sierra Resort Theatre Reno, Nev*
October 4, 2012 Save on Foods Memorial Centre Victoria, British Columbia*
October 6, 2012 BMO Calgary, Alberta*
October 7, 2012 Edmonton Expo Centre Edmonton, Alberta
October 15, 2012 O2 Academy Brixton^
October 17, 2012 O2 Academy Brixton^
October 18, 2012 O2 Apollo Manchester^
October 19, 2012 O2 Academy Glasgow^
October 20, 2012 O2 Academy Birmingham^
October 21, 2012 Brussels, Belgium Ancienne Belgique
October 23, 2012 Amsterdam, Netherlands Paradiso
October 25, 2012 Cologne, Germany E-Werk
October 27, 2012 Frankfurt, Germany Jarhunderthalle Frankfurt
October 28, 2012 Munich, Germany Zenith
October 29, 2012 Vienna, Austria Gasometer
October 31, 2012 Stuttgart, Germany LKA Longhorn
November 1, 2012 Hamburg, Germany Sporthalle
November 2, 2012 Berlin, Germany Columbiahalle
November 3, 2012 Saarbrucken, Germany Garage
November 4, 2012 Paris, France La Cigalle
November 5, 2012 Zurich, Switzerland Komplex
November 6, 2012 Milan, Italy Alcatraz
November 8, 2012 Barcelona, Spain Sala Apolo
November 9, 2012 Madrid, Spain Sala Cats
November 26, 2012 Boston, MA House of Blues
November 27, 2012 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
November 28, 2012 New York, NY Terminal 5
November 29, 2012 New York, NY Terminal 5
December 2, 2012 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
December 3, 2012 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
* – w/ Hot Water Music, Rise Against
^ – w/ Blood Red Shoes