Gaslight Anthem Singer Goes Cinematic with Horrible Crowes

Photograph by Danny Clinch

Click here to listen to Horrible Crowes' "Behold the Hurricane"

Brian Fallon, the frontman of New Jersey rockers the Gaslight Anthem, teamed up with his old friend Ian Perkins to form the Horrible Crowes, a new outlet for the singer's introspective yet bombastic music. "Behold the Hurricane," a track from the band's forthcoming debut Elsie, is a richly arranged rocker that approaches the soaring intensity of Bruce Springsteen and the cinematic flair of Greg Dulli's music with the Afghan Whigs and the Twilight Singers. Elsie won't be in shops until September 16th, but you can stream the song now.

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Song Stories

“Push It”

Salt-N-Pepa | 1987

Originating as a B side to their cover of the Stax classic “Tramp,” Cheryl “Salt” James, Sandi “Pepa” Denton and Dee Dee “DJ Spinderella” Roper came up with the goods on this career-making, Grammy-nominated platinum single about working it on the dancefloor. “Push It” has been sampled and spliced to death since it debuted in 1987, yet the original track is as fresh and fly as when SNP — among the few original women of hip-hop — debuted it. “Most men will never believe ‘Push It’ was never about sex,” said James. “And that’s why the record went to Number One,” said Denton. “Everybody thought it was about sex.”

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