Sound Bites

Tuesday

The Gaslight Anthem — Call it Jersey desperation: the cries for redemption and belonging that create the unflinching urgency in the greatest anthems penned in the Garden State by The Boss or The Bouncing Souls. Or, for that matter, by rookies-of-the-year The Gaslight Anthem, which carries that same nothing-matters-more-than-this-moment feeling in its own punk-rolled rock ’n’ soul. Feel the heartbreak in the staggering everyman’s lament “Blue Jeans and White T-Shirts.” Listen for echoes of Thunder Road drag racing in the Dickens-referencing title cut from the forthcoming The ’59 Sound when the New Brunswick quartet bestows a Saturday night’s fleeting, explosive freedom on a South Carolina Tuesday. B. Reed
New Brookland Tavern: 7 p.m., $10; 791-4413, newbrooklandtavern.com.

Free Times, 7/2/08