Gaslight Anthem '59 Sound Tour in Asbury Park: Everything you need to know

Alex Biese | Asbury Park Press

Show Caption Hide Caption The Gaslight Anthem celebrate 10 years of 'The '59 Sound' The Gaslight Anthem is on tour to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of "The '59 Sound."

For one weekend at least, the Gaslight Anthem is coming home.

The beloved Jersey classic rock revivalists will return to the Stone Pony Summer Stage in Asbury Park Friday, Aug. 17, through Sunday, Aug. 19, to wrap up their summer reunion tour.

Here's everything you need to know about Jersey's big rock weekend:

1. 'The '59 Sound' Celebration

After going their separate ways in 2015, the members of The Gaslight Anthem announced earlier this year that they would be returning to the road to commemorate the 10th anniversary of their breakthrough sophomore album, 2008's "The '59 Sound."

"The '59 Sound" catapulted the band from New Brunswick's punk scene to the national stage. The LP even earned the band a big fan in fellow New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen, who guested for performances of the album's title track at the 2009 Glastonbury and Hard Rock Calling Festivals in England.

"That (album) is where everything started from, and it's something we feel collectively passionate about because it's the first thing we did that sort of let the world know that we existed," Gaslight Anthem singer and Red Bank native Brian Fallon told the Asbury Park Press and USA Today Network's "Fan Theory" podcast earlier this year.

The band commemorated the anniversary of "The '59 Sound" with the June 15 SideOneDummy Records release of "The '59 Sound Sessions," featuring nine rare and previously unreleased songs and a 60-page booklet.

2. The shows

Gates open at 5 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Stone Pony Summer Stage, 913 Ocean Ave., Asbury Park. Tickets are sold out for Friday and Saturday but are still available for Sunday via Ticketmaster and the Stone Pony box office as of this writing for $40.50.

Jared Hart opens all three shows, with Dave Hause and the Mermaid playing on Friday and Chuck Ragan taking the stage on Saturday and Sunday.

Gaslight has been performing the album in its entirety at every stop on this tour, bookending the 12-track set with selections from across the band's five-LP, one-EP, seven-year discography.

Asbury Park Press reporter Mike Davis, reflecting on a May tour stop at Manhattan's Bowery Ballroom, described the evening as a "nostalgic return to the days when the Gaslight Anthem were the darlings of New Jersey and New York rock clubs and the beard-and-flannel, full-sleeve tattoo punks who fell in love with 'Sink or Swim' and the band's regular sets at the Court Tavern in New Brunswick and the old Asbury Lanes."

3. Asbury happenings

Like the festivities that typically surround fellow hometown heroes the Bouncing Souls' Home for the Holidays and Stoked for the Summer shows, much of Asbury Park seems to be joining in on the "'59 Sound" fun this weekend.

The Asbury Park Yacht Club, 1000 Ocean Ave. on the Asbury Park Boardwalk, will host a Gaslight Anthem pop-up shop in collaboration with Violent Gentlemen and the Asbury Park Football Club from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16 and 1 to 5:30 p.m. Friday through Sunday.

At the Yacht Club, there will be limited-edition merchandise for sale, surprise acoustic performances and a charity raffle of a Fender Standard Telecaster and Lakehouse Music Academy classes to benefit the Asbury Park Music Foundation.

The House of Independents, 572 Cookman Ave., will host the weekend's official after-parties 10:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, featuring appearances by Gaslight guitarist Alex Rosamilia and bassist Alex Levine. Admission is $5 with proof of entry to the Pony shows, $10 without.

4. What's next?

While the tour celebrating "The '59 Sound" has been a smash, speaking with the "Fan Theory" podcast this spring, Fallon was ambivalent about whether or not new music is in Gaslight's future.

"That's a whole other thing, when a band does a whole catalog of music, and you take any band, you look at the Replacements or look at various other bands who kind of, at a point, go, 'Alright, well that's pretty good, let's maybe leave it there,' " Fallon said. "But then they still go and they can play shows and celebrate what they've done while they maybe feel like they don't have anything else to add to it."

Fallon released the terrific solo album "Sleepwalkers" in February, and will be promoting that LP with an acoustic co-headlining tour with Craig Finn of the Hold Steady in the fall.

The tour kicks off Tuesday, Oct. 2, at the Royale in Boston, playing the Asbury Park Press Stage at the Count Basie Center for the Arts in Red Bank on Friday, Oct. 5.

Fallon and Finn are then at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, Oct. 6, and the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn on Sunday, Oct. 7 and Monday, Oct. 8. The tour ends Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Summit Music Hall in Denver.