Blog: Late Night Wallflower

Matt's favorite records/shows from 2011.

Download the album for free via WFMU http://bit.ly/wT4TCe

The Boss dropped by The Gaslight Anthem's end of the year holiday show last night at Asbury Park's Convention Hall. That's one hell of a X-mas gift! More pics to come.

Photos from Frank Turner's Generation Records in-store on 11/3/2011

Photos from the NYC Marathon

Frank Turner 11/3 and The Strange Boys 11/20

"It celebrates all that youthful enthusiasm we think is so silly, but kind of want back."

"It was the merging of everything we wanted, an album full of melodic guitar pop that sounded like it was pasted together on late nights of heavy drinking with friends."

""Justine" is a minute and 57 seconds of pure balls to the walls, punk rock bliss."

"It's an amazingly vulnerable piece that's not uncommon on Waits' albums in between all the junkyard howling."

"I remember my ears ringing as I walked through the city, and feeling so astonished that things like this happened in unassuming buildings and houses all over the country."

Get "Napalm Dream" from Mandible Records

"As Asbury Park began to transform into something new, I realized I wanted to capture the Asbury Park I had experienced, or at least what was left of it. These photos, taken between 2005 and 2008, are part of that effort."

Photos and review by Eric Van't Zelfden

"Psychrockbullshit" out now via Tankcrimes Records.

"Oasis thought they were bigger than The Beatles, and in that air of overconfidence, they wrote a damn good album."

Self-Titled debut out 9/13

"I can safely say, that in my lifetime, I will never have another life changing music experience like what How It Feels To Be Something On did to me."

Is it weird that I still laugh hysterically at Cookie Monster? Also, this is incredible.

"Thinking back at it now, those few minutes actually played a pinnacle role in shaping my musical taste."