Brooklyn Vegan — The Hold Steady @ BV SXSW (more by Tim Griffin) Deer Tick and The Hold Steady begin a 10-show run tonight (4/17) in Boston and to celebrate they've covered one of each other's songs. The Hold Steady do Deer Tick's... more info

Stereogum — To celebrate the kickoff of their tour together the Hold Steady and Deer Tick have covered each other’s music. The Hold Steady took on “Easy” the lead song off their tour-mates’ album Born On Flag Day while Deer Tick covered “Constructive S... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Cheap Girls at BV-SXSW 2014 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Michigan power pop trio Cheap Girls just wrapped up tours with Against Me! and The Hold Steady (which included our SXSW showcase), and they've now announced that they'll... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The Hold Steady @ BV SXSW 2014 (more by Amanda Hatfield) The Hold Steady and Drive-By Truckers both just released new albums, and both will be on their own tours this summer. Their paths intersect for two co-headlining shows, both... more info

The Good, The Bad and The Unknown —  No lyricist can capture life better in a song than Craig Finn.  If you need to hire someone to paint a picture of the tired, the working class, and the rejected in one portrait than the Hold Steady can put it to music.  They're the blue colla... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — This week's music releases include a lost Johnny Cash album, Out Among the Stars, tribute to Bob Dylan's music of the 1980s, and The Hold Steady's latest, Teeth Dreams. Albums I can especially recommend this week include Bardo Pond's... more info

Stereogum — On the afternoon of the last day of SXSW, I saw the Hold Steady on the patio of Red 7, at the Brooklyn Vegan showcase, and it was pretty close to the ideal setting for a Hold Steady show: outdoors on a sunny, summery day, with a crowd small and loose... more info

Stereogum — Today, the Hold Steady release Teeth Dreams, the album on which they once again affirm their status as one of our greatest working rock bands. And last night, they were on the Late Show With David Letterman, knocking out “Spinners,” one of that a... more info

NME — Plus new albums from Howler, Foster The People and The Hold Steady more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Amanda Hatfield, words by Andrew Sacher The Hold Steady @ Red 7 - 3/15/14 The Hold Steady were just down in Austin for SXSW, where they played a number of shows ahead of their new album, Teeth Dreams,... more info