Bleachers

Jack Antonoff – Bio 2026 The third track on Bleachers’ fifth album is titled We Should Talk.

Behind this song, which is primarily about reconnecting with a long-lost friend, also lies, according to Jack Antonoff, the very heart of his artistic approach — a return to his beginnings in music.

“We had a band, a life, dreams… in a van, we wrote our own bible,” he sings, poetically summarising his teenage years when he left small-town New Jersey with Outline.

This band, influenced by underground punk, released their own EPs, appeared on compilations with evocative titles like Bottled Violence or Punk Will Never Die, and organised their concerts in anarchist bookstores or community venues thanks to a cult guide, Book Your Own Fucking Life.

” Aboard Antonoff’s family minivan, guide in hand, they crisscrossed the United States with a very “New Jersey” pride. “I was 14 when we started. We played in town halls or veterans’ clubs, while 15 kilometres away, The Strokes were playing their first gigs in Manhattan.

But we would never have considered going there. Not for lack of money or freedom — just because we thought: ‘that New York thing, not for us’. We came from another planet. New Jersey is separated from Manhattan by a body of water, like a medieval moat that no one crosses.

There’s this idea that everything that makes New York famous — the bagels, the pizza, the vibe — is actually better here. ” Life on tour, first with Outline then with Steel Train — a band with a more folk sound — was tough.

“We had to play 250 shows a year, for five to ten years, at a time when being a musician wasn’t something that parents