The Cribs Let You Inside Their Mobile Crib

The Cribs, a melodic punk trio of brothers from Yorkshire, England, released their third album Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever last month, and it's quickly become one of our office favorites. When the band came through New York City on tour we hung out with them before their show at the Bowery Ballroom. Check out this video in which the boys chat about the rigors of the road, their influences, and growing up as bandmates and brothers. After you watch the video, click through this snazzy Cribs photo gallery here.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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