Send "THE HOLD STEADY " Ringtones to your Cell 
| Aversion |
 With a title lifted from Jack Kerouac's classic 1957 novel On the Road and a sound that's more than a little infatuated with Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska and Born in the U.S.A., you don't have to dig too deep to see that The Hold Steady's latest is an American record -- and not just by birthright....full text |
| PitchFork |
| When Pitchfork finally received a full-art copy of Boys and Girls in America, it came with a Hold Steady coaster, a wink at the received logic that Craig Finn and his cohorts are members of "America's #1 bar band." That's an ill-fitting tag for a couple of reasons; first, because the vast majority of the bars in the U.S. feature DJs and jukeboxes not bands-- let alone ones as unique and powerful as the Hold Steady....full text |
| AV Club |
| On Boys And Girls In America, his third album as frontman for the meta-bar-band The Hold Steady, Craig Finn still obsesses over self-destructive teens who score drugs and screw around....full text |
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