The Hold Steady

Unloveable: A Smiths and Morrissey Valentine's Day

REBELS NEVER DIE

Remembering Joe Strummer

The Hold Steady Stay in the Key of E Street

The bar band looks to rebound after first stumble

'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down: A Celebration of the Life and Music of Levon Helm'

STAYING POSITIVE

Craig Finn rallies the boys and girls to Mercury Lounge

Q&A: The Hold Steady's Craig Finn On The First Time He Heard The Replacements, And Which Bands Are Carrying On The 'Mats Legacy In 2011

Mark Seliger​In the new documentary Color Me Obsessed: A Film About The Replacements, you'll find a wildly diverse array of witnesses, all in thrall to the ragged glory that was The Mats in their prime. Included among these friends, admirers, whack jobs, rackjobbers, rock critics and record ex ... More >>

The Hold Steady Are Playing A Free(ish) Show At The Beekman Beer Garden On Saturday

​This Saturday, the goodtime outfit the Hold Steady will celebrate the last official weekend of summer with a free, if ticketed, show at the Beekman Beer Garden; the festivities begin at 8 p.m., and tickets are available online now. As is often the case, "free" doesn't necessarily mean free� ... More >>

Full Truck America Festival Lineup Announced; /-, Bird Of Youth, And Real Estate Now On The Bill

​The Truck America Festival—a three-day fest happening in the middle of September at the Full Moon Resort in kinda-up-there Big Indian, N.Y.—has announced its full slate of performers. Joining the already-confirmed Wye Oak, Hold Steady, and Okkervil River on the bill are a slew of ... More >>

'Downtown Music Festival Presents A-Trak+Art Brut+White Denim'

Download the Hold Steady's Monday Night Set at the Music Hall of Williamsburg

"I woke up this morning and I had this weird feeling," Craig Finn told an unsuspecting audience on Monday night at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, toward the end of the second of the Hold Steady's two shows there. "I hadn't really realized this until today, but our first show ever was on January 3 ... More >>

Live: The Hold Steady Pay Homage To Themselves and Their Heroes at the Music Hall of Williamsburg

This photo (by Rob Trucks) was actually not taken last night, though he was wearing the same shirt and everything.​The Hold Steady Music Hall of Williamsburg Sunday, January 30 Better Than: Watching the SAG Awards, whatever they are. "It's Sunday night," Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn says ... More >>

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Live: The Hold Steady Try Their Best To Burn Down The Beacon Theatre

Craig Finn, taking the whole Twins thing in stride. Pics by Rob Trucks, more below.​The Hold Steady Beacon Theatre Thursday, October 7 Better than: Cirque de Soleil's Banana Shpeel or whatever usually goes on here. I'm sure some of those Allman Brothers shows get pretty rowdy, but I still ca ... More >>

Week in Review: Report Gang Activity

Have seen you seen this man?​In the week we wondered if it was still possible to sell out in 2010 (short answer: no), we also found ourselves introduced to the horrific new term "rape gaze," about which the less that's now said, the better. Cleanse your palate with the six best things you can ... More >>

Drive-By Truckers Playing NYC On New Year's Eve, Plotting Something "Ridiculously Over-The-Top And Cool"

​Yes, New Year's Eve, that magical evening of at least slightly overpriced parties that nonetheless hold out the possibility of an epochal, champagne-fueled, surprise-guest-besotted, properly year-christening blowout. There are hundreds to choose from; the Drive-By Truckers, we are beginning t ... More >>

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 >>

The Gaslight Anthem's Fading Glory Days

New Jersey's finest Boss acolytes are too young to be so nostalgic, and so safe

Last Night: Stephen Colbert Accuses the Hold Steady of Being Graphic Designers

"Are you sure you're not graphic designers?", Stephen Colbert asks the Hold Steady's Craig Finn and Tad Kubler, the joke being that they're way too old to be playing in a band. (Like Harvilla sez: "You have to remember: The Hold Steady were wizened, wistful veterans when they started.") Then, afte ... More >>

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The Hold Steady Age Gracefully

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

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"?

Hold Steady Announce Two New York Shows, Which Take Place...This Saturday!

​Taking a page out of the LCD Soundsystem last-minute show album promotion playbook, the Hold Steady will play not one but two just-announced shows this weekend in celebration of Record Store Day. The band will play first the Bowery Ballroom and then the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Saturday; ... More >>

New Hold Steady: "Barely Breathing"

​So yeah, maybe the most baroque and/or emo deployment the classic scene reprimand, "No one wins at violent shows"? (LCD Soundsystem assayed some version of this precise sentiment last night at MHOW.) "The kids are all distracted," sings Craig Finn, and we can relate, with four Hold Steady son ... More >>

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 >>

Proof That Craig Finn Used To Actually Sing Into the Microphone

​Courtesy of Pitchfork, who dug up a live Lifter Puller set from 1997, originally broadcast on St. Cloud State University's Monday Night Live. Note the way LP frontman Craigh Finn keeps his head in the general vicinity of the microphone--something that kids who came up on Finn's subsequent ban ... More >>

Lifter Puller Finally Come Back Into Print

​Robert Christgau's one-line review of long defunt Minneapolis quarter Lifter Puller's final bow, Fiestas and Fiascos: "Postpunk E Street for fuckups clocking e-dollars." Frankly, we blanch at adding all that much more than that--the Hold Steady's Tad Kubler played bass, and Craig Finn fronte ... More >>

Tonight! Amadou & Mariam, Busdriver, and the Beginning of the Week-Long Hold Steady Onslaught

Amadou & Mariam are superstars everywhere else on the planet -- in 2006, the blind Malian couple co-wrote the official World Cup anthem. But transplant the pair to Manhattan and they can't even fill up Webster Hall... yet. Let's make it happen. The Hold Steady, however, have already sold out ever ... More >>

The Village Voice Friday Self-Reach-Around

Just a note here to point out that the Tom Robbins Voice story that tied former New Jersey Senator Bob Toricelli to the New York pension scandal went up Tuesday night, not Thursday as the Times has it today. Thanks also to the New Jersey Star-Ledger for picking up the story, and Crain's New York Bus ... More >>

Let the Public Shaming Begin: Our Own Zach Baron on ABC Talking about the Hold Steady's A Positive Rage

So yesterday Zach was on ABC's World News Webcast and it had nothing to do with Asher Roth punching him in the face. (Next week.) Yep, our esteemed SOTC colleague made an appearance for "New Music Monday" to drop science about the Hold Steady's live album/DVD spectacular A Positive Rage. Our favor ... More >>

Quick Hits

We're disappointed: Glamour left disposable cameras tethered to park benches in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and all the users shot lame pictures like this. Well, except for two guys. The New York Dolls will play at "Rachel Ray's SXSW party" this year, all jacked up on Dunkin' Donuts coffee. The Hold ... More >>

Coachella: Paul McCartney's Coming to the Desert

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

Cautious Revelry at the Hold Steady/Drive-By Truckers Blowout

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

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

Say Adios to 'Passing Strange'

The Hold Steady Return With Another Fist-Pumping Ode to Triumphant Fatigue

I guess this is growing up. . .

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

No Context: The Hold Steady at McCarren Park

Constructive Summer

The Hold Steady Return on Top

Beer-Tossing Antics with the Hold Steady

The Quarterly Report: Best New Albums

Cotton Candy on the Edge of Town

On the uneasily triumphant Hold Steady, once nearly dead, now born to run

Live: The Hold Steady Deny Involvement in Page 6 Scandal

The Best Indie-Rock Show of the Year

When You Can't Make it on The O.C . . .

Bloc Party and the Hold Steady shill for Target

Sacraments of the Scene

The Gospel According to the Hold Steady

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

Frat Daze, Clambake, Anyways, It's Still Country-Soul to Him

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