Boys and Girls in America (recorded in the Summer of 2006 with John Agnello - Sonic Youth, Alice Cooper, Dinosaur Jr., Bob Dylan, etc.) is a quintessential sonic mission statement of the band - it's a true blue classic rock n roll record in the making - delivered by one of the nation's classic bands in the making. Thematically, the album addresses the travels and travails of the relationships between the x & y's of our great nation. The complex Catholicism meets character driven narrative of Separ   [ read more ]

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#37 Seller of 2005! After releasing their highly praised debut in 2004, this NYC act didn't waste any time getting back in the studio to record a follow up. Led by Craig Finn, ex-Lifter Puller, the band combines intelligent lyrics and ideas with solid classic rock musical foundation, replete with screaming guitar solos. Separation Sunday was co-produced by Dave Gardener (Rocket From The Crypt, Drive Like Jehu & Hot Snakes) & Dean Botulonis (also helmed the knobs & whistles for the Hold Steady's first   [ read more ]

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Debut album from ex-Lifter Puller Craig Finn's new band, The Hold Steady. Here, Finn provides a stream-of-conscious vocal line -- always honest, always brutal -- over a ragged b, late of '70s rock. (Finn's delivery sounds a little like Lou Reed a la "New York.") The Hold Steady dishes out straight up rock 'n' roll that is, dare we say, almost rousing. "The Hold Steady is a bar band out to erase the memory of electroclash and wake up somnambulant hipsters dancing to minimal German DJ's wearing electrical tap   [ read more ]

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A Positive Rage documents the indomitable live spirit of The Hold Steady. It's accompanying album captures the band in their element, live and rolling around amongst a roaring crowd. It's not all about the shows though, it's also a tale of a band abandoning their day jobs and hitting the open road, grappling with success, always on the brink of collapse and praying they make it home in one piece. This one's of interest to anyone in a band, or anyone who used to be, much like that probing s   [ read more ]

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The much anticipated and critically lauded fourth album from The Hold Steady! "We kick off this record with 'Constructive Summer', a driving song about trying harder. 'Navy Sheets' features a guest harmony vocal by Patterson Hood from the Drive-By Truckers, who have been a modern day inspiration to us. 'Both Crosses' was a live in the studio experiment that ended up working. The record ends with 'Slapped Actress', which combines a mammoth Tad Kubler riff with a lyric inspired by the John Cassavetes movie [ read more ]

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"There are nights when I think Sal Paradise was right/'Boys and Girls in America have such a sad time together....'" These are the opening words to "Stuck Between Stations," the first cut from Boys and Girls in America, the Hold Steady's third full-length. Before these, however, are piano lines and glockenspiel sounds that could have come from Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run album and guitar lines that could have been spit out of an AC/DC song. Sal Paradise, Kerouac's big character,    [ read more ]

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If the Hold Steady quit after 2006's magnificent Boys and Girls in America, no one could have blamed them. After all, they had recorded three brilliant records. In 2004, THS issued the guttersnipe punk meets classic rock Almost Killed Me -- recorded mostly live since the band had little wherewithal in using a studio. They upped the ante with Separation Sunday, where songwriter Craig Finn's post-Catholic guilt and confusion led to lyric lines that were pregnant with self-mythologizing. The    [ read more ]

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"The '80s almost killed me," admits the Hold Steady's Craig Finn on "Positive Jam," one of ten rock & roll confessionals on the band's debut. That sets the tone for the rest of Almost Killed Me, as Finn reveals a lifestyle that included a "skater phase," a "raver phase," and a "razor blade phase." His lamentations are the appropriate voice for the band's debut, which sets out to recapture the glory of classic American rock and early indie rock. With rugged guitar riffs and solos and    [ read more ]

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