Tom Gabel

Live: Against Me! Buck The Norms, Duet With Joan Jett At Terminal 5

Against Me! w/The Cult, The Icarus Line Terminal 5 Friday, June 8 Better than: Being stuck in pre-tunnel traffic on a Megabus that was supposed to have left Philly at 3:30? (R.I.P. Chinatown buses.) Sorry, sorry. Better than... um, any other rawk band working right now? The critical indifference ... More >>

The Cult+Against Me!

Butch Vig On Nevermind, Siamese Dream, Garbage, And His History Of Shaping Alternative Rock As We Know It

If you don't think Butch Vig's almost singlehandedly invented two decades of alternative rock as we know it, just look at his resumé: Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Green Day, Jimmy Eat World, Foo Fighters, AFI. That's without mentioning his membership in the still-cool Garbage or the fact he prod ... More >>

Live: Against Me! Go For Broke At Music Hall Of Williamsburg

​Against Me! w/Screaming Females Music Hall of Williamsburg Sunday, June 5 Better than: A lecture on the evils of "selling out" delivered by a second-semester college freshman. Against Me! played the first seven songs of their blistering set at the Music Hall of Williamsburg Sunday night one ... More >>

Pazz & Jop Voter Comments: Rick Ross Lies, the Rolling Stones Plunder, and Taylor Swift Triumphs

Q&A: Against Me!'s Tom Gabel on Anarchists, Anti-Abortion Billboards, Alternative Press Magazine

tkTom is the one in black. Against Me! leader Tom Gabel is the sort of lyricist that can't stop himself from contemplating the folly of Robert McNamara's foreign policy decisions mid-song, and he's the sort of singer that can find a way to make the former Secretary of Defense's quirky name positive ... More >>

Against Me! Make Their Blue Album

White Crosses revels in the suddenly anomalous thrills of power chords

Grow Up Like a Rock Star

LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy sheds his cool and unites the Guitar Hero III–addled masses

The Quarterly Report: Status Ain't Hood's Favorite New Albums

Provincializm: Ben Lee Covers Against Me, Etc.

Why You Can't Hear Against Me's Masterpiece

Live: Mastodon and Against Me, the Underground Rock Tour of the Year

Kids Arise!

Punk's ever-expanding perimeter encompasses two protest bands