The super-producer's own project is at heart a dynamic bar-room band in thrall to The Boss
The dual life of Jack Antonoff is one of modern music’s more curious phenomena. Super-producer and collaborator to a host of pop A-listers –among them – the 39-year-old’s aesthetic is all over the defining music of the current era. He has the Grammys to prove it – three years in a row for Best Producer – as well as a level of celebrity that eludes all but a tiny few studio technicians.
By the second song, “Modern Girls”, an insistent, “We Didn’t Start the Fire”-lite rapid lyrical new number, two saxophonists were running around the raised perimeter of the stage blaring their instruments as Antonoff, in oversized open shirt and high-waisted trousers, scurried the floor. On 2021’s “How Dare You Want More”, Antonoff and Evan Smith recreated a classic Springsteen and Clarence Clemons guitar-and-sax routine atop of the amps.
He was very good at whipping up the crowd which made the big choruses – and there were plenty, such as breakthrough hit “Rollercoaster” and closing “Don’t Take the Money”, both huge slices of 80s power-pop – soar that little higher. Such peaks made the lesser moments, such as the nondescriptSave a solo snippet of Lana Del Rey’s “Margaret”, there were no hints of Antonoff’s storied day job; the night was all about his own life.
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