

Lifter Puller
Minneapolis art-punks Lifter Puller first took shape on the campus of Boston College when singer/guitarist Craig Finn began teaching roommate Steve Barone to play guitar. After graduating the duo relocated to the Twin Cities, recruiting bassist Tommy Roach and drummer Dan Monick to form Lifter Puller in 1994; the group's debut LP, Half Dead and Dynamite, followed on the No Alternative label four years later. After Roach found the pressures of juggling music and grad school too intense, he opted out of Lifter Puller, and on Halloween 1998 new bassist ...[more]
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"Used to have visions. Used to believe 'em." When Craig Finn sings it in Nassau Coliseum it means a lot. First, it's coming from the man that's populated his songs with Nightclub Dwight, The Eye-Patch Guy, Katrina, Juanita, Jenny, a nightclub called the Nice Nice, a gang called The Crabs, dozens of other hustlers, junkies, headbangers, college students, ravers, and hangers-on, and enough pills, tabs, bottles, puffs, and chewing tobacco to make all of 'em have visions. Not to even mention what happens whe [ read more ]
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'The arches and dips of Lifter Puller's guitar precision are pure math rock. But in general, the Minneapolis quartet's sophomore album, Fiestas + Fiascos, defies categorization. The strut of the band's new wave synthesizers is simply far too sexy for algebra class. Guitarist/ vocalist Craig Finn is the focal point of the group, his voice hovering between speaking and singing, his inspired lyrics telling tales from a dark edge of town that's even grimmer than the one Springsteen sang about in his heyday. But [ read more ]
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'The arches and dips of Lifter Puller's guitar precision are pure math rock. But in general, the Minneapolis quartet's sophomore album, Fiestas + Fiascos, defies categorization. The strut of the band's new wave synthesizers is simply far too sexy for algebra class. Guitarist/ vocalist Craig Finn is the focal point of the group, his voice hovering between speaking and singing, his inspired lyrics telling tales from a dark edge of town that's even grimmer than the one Springsteen sang about in his heyday. But [ read more ]
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