Literate bar-rock legends the Hold Steady have been releasing a whole lot of music lately, even if it's been more than four years since Teeth Dreams, their last proper album. This year, they've been cranking out a steady diet of double-A-sided singles. First, there was "Entitlement Crew" b/w "A Snake In The Shower." And then…

Flip These Houses, a benefit concert celebrating "Protest Music, Political Music, and Unity through song," will be held on 9/28 at the Knockdown Center in Queens. The bill features Spoon's Britt Daniel, Superchunk's Mac McCaughan, Ted Leo, Walkmen's Hamilton Leithauser, the Wrens' Charles Bissell, the Hold Steady's Craig Finn.

Hey, another pair of new Hold Steady songs! The Brooklyn-based, Minnesota-inspired rockers have been kicking out singles a couple at a time in recent months, starting with "Entitlement Crew" and "A Snake In The Shower" last November and continuing with "Eureka" and "Esther" back in May. Those sets arrived ahead of Hold Steady residencies in&...

Since approximately 2008, Craig Finn’s been sounding less and less like the crazy drunk guy accosting you on the street and more and more like the singer of an actual rock band (and a huge one at that). But that doesn’t mean he can’t still bring the whole madman-poet thing, as anyone who’s seen the [...]

The Replacements have begun playing shows again so gradually that we wouldn’t blame you if you forgot. They’ve hit half a dozen festivals so far, and in our experience their set has been really enjoyable. Now the band has announced a show 9/19 at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens with support from the Hold Steady, [...]