The Hold Steady have announced the release of their ninth studio album, The Price of Progress. It will be available on...
It’s been another sterling year for new music, perhaps even one of the best of the decade, as evidenced by...
After much debate, votes and input from our team we have compiled fifty of our favourite albums of 2017, by...
“I don’t see how I could possibly say no to an invitation like that?” Craig Finn is considering the question,...
Bob Dylan and the 1980s. Words which when placed together invariably generate the most extreme of reactions. Expressions of complete...
Today we reach the culmination of our albums of 2022 poll, we bring you our top 25 albums of the...
It’s been a while since I felt this overwhelmed about reviewing a record. Not because I don’t think it’s any...
Craig Finn‘s solo career seems to me to be following a similar path as his exquisite band, The Hold Steady....
Craig Finn and his band, The Hold Steady, have pretty much soundtracked my life over the past decade, so when...
Hoxton’s bar and kitchen music venue is strewn with bottles. On every available surface, from chairs to the stage and...
“We used to post up for days at this place in the flats / and she’d stare off into space...
“I’m gonna say Florida” says Craig Finn, who’s probably a little surprised that I’ve started our interview with a general...
One of the finest storytellers in the game for the best part of 20 years now, it was only a...
“It’s a big city, there’s a lot of love“. So sang Craig Finn on ‘Spinners‘, from The Hold Steady‘s fine...
The Hold Steady are one of those bands who actas something of a guilty pleasure. Like most, I first caught...
