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The Hold Steady

By Matt Chaban 1/19 11:20am

Red Carpet Real Estate

Maybe he'll switch to a Nets jersey next year. (Sportress of Blogitude)

Holding Steady in Greenpoint, Where Craig Finn Goes to Grow Up

Ring, ring, ring goes the telephone/Tell my little lambs that I'm on my way home/Stop by the shop and get a bottle to go/Maybe something stronger if the right guy's on the corner.

So sings Craig Finn on "Our Whole Lives" from two years ago. Perhaps the Hold Steady frontman was thinking of the liquor store at the corner of Manhattan and Nassau avenues in Greenpoint. (You know the one, where the local Polish Greenpointers go to cash their paychecks.)

Turns out that the bespectacled bandleader has settled in the neighborhood after a decade in Brooklyn, and in today's Post, Craig Finn gives a tour of his one-bedroom apartment there at the same time his "quieter" solo album is out. Read More

By Molly Fischer 5/05/10 4:02pm

Mem'ries

The Week That Was: April 29-May 5

On Saturday morning, May Day, we announced to friends that this would surely be the best day of all our lives. Nothing invigorates us like warm weather and sweeping pronouncements.

We will not comment upon the success of the best-day plan, but we certainly tried our hardest. Orchestrating the Best Day of Our Lives required Read More

By Joe Pompeo 7/15/08 1:16pm

The Week in Music: The Hold Steady, Wire, Nas, the Vines

It seems safe to say that Brooklyn’s The Hold Steady has become one of New York’s most beloved indie bands. After all, back in 2005, with only two albums under its belt, it was the first rock act in about 15 years to grace the Village Voice’s cover. Its new album, Stay Positive, was released Read More

By J. Gabriel Boylan 7/15/08 12:32pm

The Hold Steady Hold a Grudge

The critics who praise the Hold Steady share a kind of collective relief that at last, someone's making music for men in their 30's who like classic rock.

But since when are men in their 30s who like classic rock such an underserved demographic?

I have had the band pushed on me by aging, formerly disillusioned rock Read More