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

Stereogum — Earlier this week, I posted a Premature Evaluation of the Hold Steady’s excellent new album Teeth Dreams, but there was one slight problem with it: None of you motherfuckers could hear the album yet. It hadn’t leaked, and it wasn’t streaming on... more info

Stereogum — There are two different ways to experience a Hold Steady album for the first time. There is, of course, the first time you throw the album on, the first time you let the riffs reverberate around in your ribcage for a couple of minutes and then blur i... more info

Stereogum — The Hold Steady’s new album Teeth Dreams is about a week and a half away from entering your life, and we’ve posted the album-starting ragers “I Hope This Whole Thing Didn’t Frighten You” and “Spinners.” Yesterday, playing the Public Rad... more info

Stereogum — Fun fact: Syd Butler, the bass player in Fred Armisen’s Late Night With Seth Meyers house band, is the Hold Steady’s old Frenchkiss Records label boss. So maybe that’s why the Hold Steady were on Late Night last night, the first musical guests ... more info