The Hold Steady are one of our great live bands. A lot of that has to do with the group’s ability to connect with a sweaty, drunk, fired-up crowd — with the way people react to their big, surging moments and with the way that the Hold Steady react to people’s reactions. But even if you take the live-crowd energy out of the equation, the Hold Steady still get it done onstage. They proved that again last night.