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The Hold Steady — A Positive Rage

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By Steve McLean (CHARTattack) April 9, 2009 11:25 am
This quintet's buzz, along with their fan base, has been growing over their four studio albums in the last five years, and this live effort was recorded on Halloween 2007 while they were touring in support of 2006's Boys And Girls In America. Frontman Craig Finn isn't much of a singer, but he's a literate and passionate storyteller who can relate...
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Hold Steady Blow Minds

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By Josh Visser (CHARTattack) November 12, 2008 4:38 pm
If there was any justice in the world, The Hold Steady would be packing Toronto's Rogers Centre like AC/DC. But we all know life ain't fair and too many people listen to classic rock stations. But you can't blame the band for rocking like they were playing to tens of thousands instead of the thousand-or-so concertgoers that packed the Phoenix on...
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The Hold Steady — Stay Positive

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) July 15, 2008 8:40 am
There's nothing more difficult than following up a breakthrough album. Some try to recreate the past (Wilco, circa everything after Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) while others move in entirely different directions (Arcade Fire). The Hold Steady kind of fell into their watershed success. Boys And Girls In America wasn't a striking departure from their...
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The Hold Steady Are Bar Band Of The Highest Order

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By James Simons (CHARTattack) August 2, 2006 4:00 pm
OK, let's say you didn't catch The Hold Steady's Monday night set at Lee's Palace, an event that came somewhere between walking on water and turning water to wine in the Guinness Book Of Fucking Miracles. Hell, let's say you've never heard The Hold Steady either. Let's just start at the start. The Hold Steady are a sweaty, sincere bar band....
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LISTEN: Stream The Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn's new solo album Clear Heart Full Eyes

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By Jon Pappo (CHARTattack) January 16, 2012 12:16 pm
For some fans, The Hold Steady function like a religion.  Lyricist and frontman Craig Finn serves as a manic preacher, belting out sermons about drugs, drinking, sex, pain and all those other things that have to do with getting older.  While The Hold Steady have been inactive for the past year or so, Finn has been busy readying his first...
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The Hold Steady's Craig Finn announces solo album, nods to Friday Night Lights

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By Jon Pappo (CHARTattack) November 7, 2011 12:18 pm
Turns out that the title of Craig Finn's forthcoming record will be very familiar to TV addicts.  The Hold Steady frontman's solo effort Clear Hearts Full Eyes is an inverted reference to the outstanding Texas football drama Friday Night Lights. Is there anybody that Coach Taylor can't inspire? In an issued statement, Finn explains the title...
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Craig Finn (of The Hold Steady) to release new single in November

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By Jon Pappo (CHARTattack) October 28, 2011 12:08 pm
We haven’t seen much from legendary bar band The Hold Steady this year, but that doesn’t mean that lead singer (and lyrical genius) Craig Finn hasn’t been keeping busy. Next month, Finn will unveil his softer solo efforts in his single “Honolulu Blues”, backed by B-side “Rented Room”.  The single will be released on a limited edition press...
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I Read The News Today... For Jan. 13, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) January 13, 2011 4:42 pm
When bassist Carlos D left Interpol, it was looked at as an amicable split. But now singer/guitarist Paul Banks has called him an "a-hole." But he doesn't mean it in a jerky way: he thinks Carlos is a "genius," and says he's willing to put up with a lot of shit from people he considers to be brilliant. —Undercover Neko Case is raffling the muscle...
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The Hold Steady at Glastonbury Festival 2010

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June 27, 2010
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The Hold Steady at Glastonbury Festival 2010

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Photographer: 
Carrie Musgrave
Venue: 
Other Stage
City: 
Pilton, England
Date: 
June 27, 2010
The Hold Staedy (Photo by Carrie Musgrave)

The Hold Steady at Glastonbury Festival 2010

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Photographer: 
Carrie Musgrave
Venue: 
Other Stage
City: 
Pilton, England
Date: 
June 27, 2010
The Hold Staedy (Photo by Carrie Musgrave)

The Hold Steady at Glastonbury Festival 2010

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Photographer: 
Carrie Musgrave
Venue: 
Other Stage
City: 
Pilton, England
Date: 
June 27, 2010
The Hold Staedy (Photo by Carrie Musgrave)

The Hold Steady at Glastonbury Festival 2010

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Photographer: 
Carrie Musgrave
Venue: 
Other Stage
City: 
Pilton, England
Date: 
June 27, 2010

Hold Steady Lose Keyboardist

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) January 22, 2010 3:26 pm
Franz Nicolay, The Hold Steady's keyboardist arguably known as much for his gigantor moustache as for his tinkling of the ivories, has left the band. Nicolay wrote on his website that he informed his bandmates about his decision in September and played his final show with the band in Minneapolis in November. "Five years seemed like a nice...
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Hold Steady Canadian Dates Announced

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By CHARTattack Staff June 24, 2009 12:44 pm
The Hold Steady have announced a new set of tour dates, including six Canadian stops. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based alt.rockers are touring in support of their fourth studio album, Stay Positive, which was released last July.  Their music has since been featured in an episode of NBC/Direct TV series Friday Night Lights and on Colin Murray's show...
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Pumping: The Hold Steady — A Positive Rage

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By The Stereo (CHARTattack) April 6, 2009 1:10 pm
The Hold Steady's popularity has grown rapidly over the past year, and this two-disc live album and documentary should only spur that on even more.
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Hold Steady In A Positive Rage

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) February 3, 2009 3:22 pm
The Hold Steady will release a live album and DVD documentary on April 7 through Vagrant Records. The double-disc A Positive Rage set includes a 53-minute documentary that chronicles the release of The Hold Steady's 2006 Boys And Girls In America album and their subsequent tour in support of it. It features their first performances in London,...
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The Hold Steady Blow

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By Jen White (CHARTattack) November 12, 2008 6:04 pm
Looking around the Phoenix on Tuesday night, it wasn't hard to tell I was out of place. The Hold Steady are geared towards blue collar males, aged 25-50, with the dream that they can someday, like balding frontman Craig Finn, stand up from behind their stupid desk at their stupid job and say, "Fuck this, I'm going to be a rock star!"...
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Hold Steady Pianist Releasing Solo Album

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) November 6, 2008 11:23 am
The Hold Steady pianist Franz Nicolay will release his Major General solo debut album on Jan. 13 through Fistolo Records. The disc was produced by James Frazee, who helmed The Hold Steady's recently released Stay Positive, and mixed by John Agnello. Nicolay recorded the 13-track disc over six days with help from The Dresden Dolls' Brian...
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The Hold Steady Stay Positive

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) June 20, 2008 3:30 pm
Although a track from The Hold Steady's last album referenced poet John Berryman's 1972 suicide, the band seem more optimistic with their fourth album. Stay Positive is due out on July 15 through Vagrant Records. The band spent most of the tour for 2006's Boys And Girls In America writing songs for Stay Positive, which was recorded at Water...
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