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Franz Nicolay

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2010

    Week In Review: Aw Dude, You Missed It

    Unfortunately, this just isn't fun anymore. Pic by Sam Horine.​It's Friday the 13th, and if you're as superstitious as we are here at SOTC, you'll stay away from the outside world altogether. Lucky for you, though, we've put together a pretty awesome rundown of dance parties to visit this week ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    Download Franz Nicolay's "This Is Not A Pipe"

    ​Hold Steady refugee Franz Nicolay has wasted no time since his defection from the band early this year; in addition to tending his 2009 solo album Major General and touring with Against Me!, he's now prepared another solo record, Luck and Courage, for October, whereupon he seems to once again ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    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 >>

  • Music

    May 4, 2010

    The Hold Steady Age Gracefully

    On the still raucous and (only slightly) paternal charms of Heaven Is Whenever

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    Live: The Hold Steady Bro Down At Bowery Ballroom

    The Hold Steady Bowery Ballroom Saturday, April 17 And what better song to kick off the first of two special Record Store Day gigs than the one that ignites on the words "We put it all down on technology and lost everything we invested"?

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    On The Hold Steady's "Hurricane J," Which Has Piano In It, Somewhat Surprisingly

    ​Somewhat bell-like, Sigur Rós-ian piano, but given the recent departure of keyboard/mustache guru Franz Nicolay, any at all is somewhat surprising. Not so, happily, the rest of "Hurricane J": The guitar riff, the en masse backing vox, the earnest lyrics about a real sweet girl who's made som ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    The Hold Steady Announce New Record: Heaven Is Whenever, Due in May

    Judson Baker​Here's to ending the longest drought between Hold Steady albums, ever. In the two years since the Brooklyn band released the hardcore revival moment Stay Positive, the former five piece toured endlessly and, at the tail end of last month, bade farewell to keyboardist and chief mou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Week in Review: Pull a Monster Out of Your Soul

    Goodbye to all that, I guess. Photo of These Are Powers by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week our F2K crew got within three wretched singles of revealing all 50 worst songs of the decade, we learned what giant, raging purple erections in cargo shorts would say if they could speak. (Probably something ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2009

    Yes In My Backyard: Download Guignol's "Branks" (Featuring the Hold Steady's Franz Nicolay)

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Brooklyn's Guignol is the best bet for Barbez's crew of hard-working, hard-playing world-music mutants to finally party crash the art-punk party at Death By Audio. With a line-up that includes Hold ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2008

    My Favorite Thing To Happen to the Hold Steady This Week: MSNBC.

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Brooklyn's Guignol is the best bet for Barbez's crew of hard-working, hard-playing world-music mutants to finally party crash the art-punk party at Death By Audio. With a line-up that includes Hold ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2008

    Beer-Tossing Antics with the Hold Steady

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Brooklyn's Guignol is the best bet for Barbez's crew of hard-working, hard-playing world-music mutants to finally party crash the art-punk party at Death By Audio. With a line-up that includes Hold ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2006

    Live: The Hold Steady Deny Involvement in Page 6 Scandal

    Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. ​Brooklyn's Guignol is the best bet for Barbez's crew of hard-working, hard-playing world-music mutants to finally party crash the art-punk party at Death By Audio. With a line-up that includes Hold ... More >>

  • pazzandjop

    January 24, 2006

    Listening in Real Time

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

  • Music

    April 26, 2005

    The Gospel According to the Hold Steady

    On their great new album, Brooklyn's best band explores why Catholic girls start much too early

  • Dance

    November 2, 2004

    Dance

    On their great new album, Brooklyn's best band explores why Catholic girls start much too early

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