Gaslight Anthem Talk Rocking With Bruce Backstage at Lolla

Fresh off their Lollapalooza set, Brian Fallon and Alex Levine from the Gaslight Anthem sat down with Rolling Stone to recall an incredible recent festival moment: sharing the stage with Bruce Springsteen at Glastonbury. Fallon tells RS Springsteen's son Evan discovered the band, and the man himself "showed up one day at Glastonbury. He was like, 'I think I'm going to play that " '59 Sound" song with you.' " The pair also give a few hints about the secret new sound they're working up now: a mix of Tom Waits, the Clash and the Supremes. Watch the full interview above and check out photos from Lollapalooza '09 here.

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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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