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The Hold Steady

If She Wants A Scene Report, Don’t Tell Her ’Bout The Kicked-In Doors

May 14, 2009

Hey, what can I say? Craig Finn has left the world with enough amusing, sad, and true lyrics about drugs to last us the remaining years of our lives. The Hold Steady – Ask Her For Adderall from the pretty sweet live album A Positive Rage http://www.theholdsteady.net http://www.myspace.com/theholdsteady

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We Went To Some Place Where She Catsits

July 18, 2008

It’s one thing to start it with a positive jam, it’s another thing to see it on through Stay Positive finds The Hold Steady completing their unlikely yet somehow inevitable transformation from great shouty indie band to Great American Rock & Roll Band. (Turns out all it took was a little singing.) Is anybody anywhere [...]

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The Way The Whispers Bit Like Fangs In The Last Hour Of The Party

November 7, 2007

So the Art Brut/Hold Steady show was pretty motherflippin’ sweet. Do you know what those bands have in common? No, not shouty lead singers. I hadn’t actually noticed that. They’re both bands that sing about being in a band, which I love. But The Hold Steady also mentions their own band name in songs, which [...]

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