Last month, Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn released Clear Heart Full Eyes, his first-ever solo album, and he's lately done a few different in-studio sessions for a few different media outlets. At a…   Read Story »

Clear Heart Full Eyes, the first-ever solo album from Hold Steady frontman and expert chronicler of desperation Craig Finn, is all set to arrive. We've already posted the album tracks "Honolulu…   Read Story »

Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn will release Clear Heart Full Eyes, his first-ever solo album, later in the month. We've already posted the album tracks "Honolulu Blues" and "Rented Room," as well as…   Read Story »

The A.V. Club has a new video series called One Track Mind, in which artists play songs and tell the stories behind those songs -- a pocket version of VH1 Storytellers, sort of. The latest entry…   Read Story »

If Hüsker Dü or Sugar were before your time, do yourself a favor and dig up their old catalogs. Both venerable bands were fronted by Bob Mould, and an all-star assortment of music luminaries…   Read Story »

The all-star tandem of Titus Andronicus' Patrick Stickles, The Hold Steady's Craig Finn, and Tommy Ramone (along with Jesse Malin and Dave Hause) got together a couple of nights ago at Bowery…   Read Story »

Borne of a personal challenge to record a song a day in his apartment, Craig Finn is set to release a new solo LP which focuses on quieter, sparer songs than those of Finn's most famous outfit, the…   Read Story »

At some point next year, Craig Finn, the splenetically wordy and generally joyous frontman of the Hold Steady, will release a solo album under his own name. Finn recorded it earlier this year in…   Read Story »

As part of the A.V. Club's bands-covering-songs video series "A.V. Undercover," ecstatic rockers the Hold Steady recently stopped by the A.V. Club's Chicago office to cover "The Power Of Love," the…   Read Story »

Wilco did it at Wrigley field in 2008, and now Arcade Fire's tackled "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" for the Cubs. Members Will Butler and Marika Shaw did the honors Saturday night, singing and swaying…   Read Story »