About Bleachers

Before Bleachers, Jack Antonoff was the guitarist for Steel Train and later a member of fun., the band behind "We Are Young." In 2014, he stepped out on his own with Bleachers — not a side project so much as a place to put everything fun. didn't have room for: bigger, weirder, more personal, unapologetically maximalist pop-rock built on saxophone hooks and drum sounds the size of a stadium.

The debut single, "I Wanna Get Better," became an alt-radio staple almost immediately, and the album that followed, Strange Desire, established the template: diaristic lyrics about growing up in New Jersey, losing his sister to brain cancer as a teenager, and chasing joy anyway, all wrapped in production big enough to fill an arena.

More than a decade and five albums later, Bleachers is still Antonoff's most direct outlet — the place where the guy shaping some of the biggest pop records of his generation gets to be the frontman himself.

Outside of Bleachers, Jack Antonoff has become one of the most sought-after producers and co-writers in pop music. He's a multiple-time Grammy winner for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, with production and writing credits across albums by Taylor Swift, Lorde, St. Vincent, Lana Del Rey, and many others.

That dual life — architect of some of the decade's defining pop records by day, frontman of a scrappy, sax-forward rock band by night — is a big part of what makes Bleachers shows feel different: a producer who could hide behind the board instead choosing to stand at the front of the stage.

Whatever hat he's wearing, the throughline is the same: big feelings, bigger choruses, and a New Jersey kid's belief that a pop song can still mean something.