Video: The Hold Steady "The Swish" - music video

Last week, William Shatner unveiled the tracklist to his third studio album, Searching For Major Tom. Regardless of how you feel about the actor or his musical career, it's imperative you look at... Continue reading "William Shatner Gets All Outer-Space: Five Songs for His Next Album" >

Your daily dose of national music news for Wednesday, February 24, 2010...Jay-Z's got 99 problems and the blind governor of New York is one of them. That doesn't really roll off the tongue ... Continue reading "Today In Music News: Jay-Z Has Problems, J-Lo Splits From Her Label And The Hold Steady Announce New Album" >

Virtually unheard upon release, it seems like the Book of Genesis now, the moment of the first light. On the first song, the band starts it with a positive jam. On the second song, they spent the night in Beverly Hills with a chick who looked like Beverly Sills. On the seventh song, they did not rest, instead they hated all those clever people and their clever people parties. By the time they wrapped it up on the tenth song, the all-time album closer "Killer Parties," there could be only one reaction: It is good. [...]

Start the countdown, The Hold Steady are releasing a live album and documentary on April 7th .

The Hold Steady "The Swish"

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As previously noted , The Hold Steady are playing the teany-tiny Maxwell's on November 24th. Ends up they're also playing the much larger Warsaw in Brooklyn just two days earlier. These and all the new dates you see below are about to be on pre-sale .... ALSO "By buying tickets through our presale, you'll be able to get your tickets before anyone else AND save some money on service charges. In addition, each customer that purchases a presale ticket will receive an exclusive MP3 download of The Hold Steady's [...]

Recent new releases. I didn't provide any Decemberists mp3s because I'm pretty sure everyone here has the new CD, but here's a live performance of "O Valencia" on Conan last week: --- [...]

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