The Hold Steady. Most people who pay close attention to rock music know who these guys are, but they aren't exactly mainstream. Based in Brooklyn, they are a band of veteran musicians with a singer-songwriter from the Twin Cities and a lead guitarist from Janesville, WI. A catchy-but-edgy brand of Springsteen-style working class rock, with cynical lyrics about everyday life, relationships, faith, death, and all other things that torture humankind.
They've been dubbed as the "Best Bar Band in America" for their entertaining and intense live shows. Rolling Stone rates them as one of the Top Ten Live Bands going right now. This clip is a Brooklyn performance of their tune, "Stuck Between Stations," which kicks off with a Jack Kerouac reference and then dramatizes the Mississippi River drowning suicide of alcholic poet John Berryman. I wanted to post a clip of a "real" live show, but the audio is much better on this Letterman clip if you really want to hear the song the way it should sound.
He loved the Golden Gophers but he hated all the drawn out winters.
He liked the warm feeling but he's tired of all the dehydration.
Who writes about this stuff? The Hold Steady.
By the way, their Madison show for July 10 is sold out (The Majestic), so you're all fucked.
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Way to 'stay positive' Timmay. That and these guys dig some of my fav rappers.
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