Archive: Hold Steady

Live Last Night: The Hold Steady/Art Brut/1990s

My review of last night's Hold Steady gig at the sold-out 9:30 club? Right here. It was pretty much the same show as last year's - almost identical setlist, same speech at the end, my same complaints about singer Craig Finn missing the timing on some of his best lines...

By David Malitz | November 21, 2007; 03:21 PM ET | Comments (6)

The A-to-Z Hold Steady Glossary

You don't just listen to the Hold Steady. You immerse yourself in the Hold Steady. The Brooklyn-via-Minnesota quintet plays fist-pumping, glass-raising bar band rock, and does it damn well - classic rock as done by folks weaned on the Replacements. If it was just killer riffs and tight songs the...

By David Malitz | November 20, 2007; 09:45 AM ET | Comments (11)

 

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