Because every once in awhile a band I love will post something REAL via myspace that that just makes me happy. Just today, Tad from the Hold Steady posted a bulletin titled: Top Five List: Who I wanna party with...and his answers:1. Robert Evans2. Charles Barkley3. Noel Gallagher4. Benicio Del Toro5. The Bush SistersHard to argue with those...even though I am pretty sure the Bush twins could drink
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With all the hoopla of Coachella and Bonnaroo, with Virgin and APW and Lolla, we tend to forget the small music festivals. I, too, have been remiss about touting the greatness of local block parties; despite the lack of huge name headliners, there is often such lovely aural goodness to indulge in.So, in that vein, I give you a belated post on Seattle's Capitol Hill Block Party. Late July fin...
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I know, this is like my umpteenth Hold Steady post since the show on Saturday...but it was JUST that good. While listening to the latest record tonight it hit me that singer and lyricist Craig Finn is like a wonderful combination of Charles Bukowski and Bruce Springsteen. He writes these amazing songs about love and love lost, but there are so many intimate details in his words, that the songs ...
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So tonight is the night of the Hold Steady concert in Grand Rapids which I have tickets to.Tonight is also the last home game for my daughter's lacrosse team and it is senior parents' night. This means at the end of the game each senior girl's parents are called up and they give them a flower. She has played lacrosse for four years. (Jennifer Granholm's daughter is on her team and I keep havin...
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UPDATEI ended up going to the game. They played Rockford and the game ended with a tie: 8 to 8. After the game the senior girls and the coaches and parents gathered. Each girl was called up and the parents went up and hugged their daughter and was given a blue and a white carnation (the east lansing trojan colors). As we hugged I said, I am missing my concert for this--jokingly and everybody ...
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I just found out that one of my old haunts is re-opening tonight.To anyone whose formative years were spent in the southern suburbs of Dublin, the words 'Club Sarah' will simultaneously send shivers up the spine and bring a sly grin to the face. Sarah, or 'Club Slapper' as it was known locally ('Slapper' being slang for a girl of extremely low standards, romantically speaking) was legendary, mo...
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I imagine you'd have to flip a coin. How else to decide who headlines a double-bill the likes of which are teaming up for the "Rock And Roll Means Well" tour cutting across the continent this November? The Drive-By Truckers or The Hold Steady ? Both their latest albums - Brighter Than Creation's Dark and Stay Positive , respectively - are solid though not career-defining moments. By virtu...
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