Craig Finn

Jersey Native Nicole Atkins: "Every Place That We Grew Up Going To Is Just Ripped Apart Or Gone."

Before heading back into the studio to record her forthcoming album, Nicole Atkins packed up her guitars, her record collection and the rest of her apartment in Brooklyn and moved back in with her parents in Shark River Hills, New Jersey, about two months ago. Her three guitars found a new spot down ... More >>

Archers Of Loaf, Team Spirit, Doldrums, And Devin Added To 4Knots Music Festival Lineup

The 4Knots Music Festival—taking place on July 14 at the South Street Seaport, and already featuring The Drums, Hospitality, Bleached, Crocodiles, and Nick Waterhouse—has added Team Spirit, Doldrums, and Devin to the bill, as well as the mighty Archers Of Loaf. Check out Dan Weiss's hist ... More >>

A Replacements Doc With No Replacements Music: Color Me Obsessed

Paying Tribute To Archers Of Loaf: "Even If I Had Two Other Hands, I Couldn't Count My Favorite Archers Songs On Them"

​In this week's Voice, we looked at the history of Archers Of Loaf, the storied North Carolina indie outfit that recently got back together for a run of shows and reissues. Below, some quotes from Archers frontman Eric Bachmann that couldn't fit into the Voice's print edition; members of Band ... More >>

Spring Arts Guide: The Feelies Get Perpetually Nervous All Over Again

Plus CSS, Adele, and other spring music picks

Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? Defending Taylor Swift And Hailing The-Dream

Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! Happier times for us all​My friends, It's the confl ... More >>

Q&A: Craig Finn Of The Hold Steady Breaks Down The Twins/Yankees Series

Twins cap not pictured, for once​The MLB Playoffs begin today, kicking off an annual tradition for many sports-minded New Yorkers: rooting against the Yankees. Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn has added motivation this year, given that his beloved Minnesota Twins once again drew the Yanks in th ... More >>

The National Is Uncomfortably Fun

Matt Berninger makes awkward look cool and despair sound hilarious

Q&A: Poet Michael Robbins Talks His New Poem, "Lust For Life," the Girls Song It's Named After, Nicki Minaj, and Why Burzum's Varg Vikernes Is A Moron

Jennifer Wild​The Chicago-based poet Michael Robbins is heroin for literary nerds and music nerds alike. Britney Spears, Pink, and Buju Banton have all crashed the gates of Robbins's poetry, which began appearing last year in the New Yorker; his newest piece in that magazine, "Lust For Life" ( ... More >>

Farewell, the Hold Steady's Franz Nicolay

Nicolay, saying goodbye to the band but never to the mustache.​Oh wow, keyboardist Franz Nicolay just quit the Hold Steady: "You should know," he wrote on his website yesterday. "I've left The Hold Steady. I told the band I'd be leaving in early September, played my last show with them in Minn ... More >>

The Hold Steady/Drive-By Truckers Post-Election Rock 'n' Roll Hangover

Will their November double-bill be a fiesta or a wake?

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

Live: Art Brut/White Rabbits at Highline Ballroom, 07.09.07

The Polyphonic We

Critics were simply flabbergasted by harmonies in 2006, but we all needed them

The Quarterly Report: Best New Singles

Status Ain't Hood Interviews the Mountain Goats

Try Isn't Do

Musical drugs and shared secret codes abort the utopic mission

Listening in Real Time

Eclectic neoclassicism versus childhood-oriented avant-primitivism as global warming swamps our history

CMJ Music Marathon

Beguilement and Rage

So many unpretentious young bands with a geniune knack, so many others without a clue

We Got A Lot

Kvelling over damn near a dozen meanings of life, their average length close to an hour

As Long as I Still Can

Nice Nice Guys Finish Last