About a year ago, Jesse Malin suffered a spinal stroke that left him partially paralyzed. The New York rock musician known for his role in bands like D Generation and Heart Attack is being celebrated with a new tribute album announced today. Bleachers’ cover of Malin’s 2007 song “Prisoners Of Paradise” is ...

For at least the past 20 years, real lyric heads have known that the Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle and the the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn are two of the best writers — arguably the two best writers — operating in the indie rock sphere. Darnielle and Finn have plenty more in common, too. They’re bo...

At least for me, one of the most endearing things about Seth Meyers is his enduring devotion to the Hold Steady. Anytime there’s any excuse to put the Hold Steady, the great American rock band, on television, Meyers makes sure they get booked for Late Night. Six months ago, frontman Craig Finn was on the show to play his solo song &...

The Hold Steady are a few weeks away from releasing their ninth studio album, The Price Of Progress. They’ve shared two singles from it so far, “Sideways Skull” and “Steady Sixers,” and here comes a third, “Understudies.”“This is sonically a leap from any song on the...