Photo credit: Shervin Lainez The Hold Steady celebrate their 20th anniversary with new album ‘The Price of Progress’ – a collection of songs that finds Craig Finn once again telling the gut-punching stories of ordinary and often flawed people trying to navigate their way through life in today’s unsettled times…. ‘Grand Junction’ opens the song…
The Hold Steady’s frontman Craig Finn has shared new single ‘Messing With the Settings’ ahead of the release of his fifth solo album, ‘A Legacy of Rentals’ on 20 May via Positive James/Thirty Tigers. The opening song on the new album, Craig says: ‘This song is literally a eulogy. It’s delivered by someone who has…
The Hold Steady return with ‘Open Door Policy’, the follow-up to 2019’s critically revered ‘Thrashing Thru the Passion’. The now six-piece again worked with producer Josh Kaufman to deliver 10 richly developed pieces of storytelling that examine issues including wealth, power, capitalism, ambition, opportunism and survival… Gentle stabs at the piano signal the start of…
The Hold Steady have made a welcome return with new record ‘Thrashing Thru the Passion’. The album was recorded in spontaneous fashion and is packed with all the things that we love about The Hold Steady – the hooks, the riffs and Craig Finn’s storytelling lyrics and humour. Recent single ‘Denver Haircut’ opens the record…
The Hold Steady have shared ‘Denver Haircut’, the opening song from their next album ‘Thrashing Thru the Passion’ (out on 16 August through French Kiss Records). The three-minute track is buzzing with energy and melody that gives a glimpse into the off-the-cuff sound the band have embraced on this new recording. Craig Finn has always…
The Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn shares new album ‘I Need a New War’, a record he claims to be the final part of a trilogy of collections of songs about the smaller moments in life: people trying to find connections and stay afloat financially and emotionally in today’s world. Each song focuses on a…
The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn has announced details of his forthcoming fourth solo album (and third in a trilogy of inter-linked records) ‘I Need a New War’ and released new single ‘Blankets’. The record will be released via Partisan Records on 26 April. ‘Blankets’ offers the perfect introduction to the character studies that Craig offers…
Two years in the making, Cheerleader’s ‘Perfect Vision’ mixes Tegan and Sara-style synth pop with the bouncy hooks of The Hold Steady or even the Beach Boys. The five-piece, originally from Connecticut but since regrouped in Philadelphia, also have the essence of a slightly calmer Phoenix based on this four minutes. A genteel track that…
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