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Album name: Heaven is Whenever Artist name: The Hold Steady Genre: Rock Released: 3 May 2010 Label: Vagrant/Rough Trade ZME Rating: 9/10 Website: theholdsteady.net A while back, I tweeted something to this effect: “If Craig Finn was a better singer, The Hold Steady would be a worse band.” In that respect, it would appear that [...]
Tue, May 4, 2010
Look. I’m sorry, but I make no apologies for this: due to a series of internal misunderstandings, my review of the Hold Steady’s Heaven Is Whenever (released – oh! – sometime in the last 24 hours) is unlikely to be ready until Thursday or Friday at the earliest. (“Not even a proper excuse!” I hear [...]
Mon, May 3, 2010
Quite a few quality releases this week. The obvious standout of the week is Hold Steady‘s new record “Heaven is Whenever“, which aside from our obvious affection for the band is well on par with their previous material, making it a definite recommend! “Forgiveness Rock Record“, Broken Social Scene‘s first record in five years, is [...]
Fri, Apr 2, 2010
The Hold Steady have been really pampering us lately, having offered two three new songs off their new album “Heaven is Whenever” for streaming, as of today. Hopefully they can show other bands a lesson on how proper previewing should be made. The latest track upped for sampling is the nostalgic anthem “Weekenders”, a massive [...]
Mon, Mar 29, 2010
How have we not posted about this already? The Hold Steady’s new album, Heaven is Whenever, is all set for release in May (the 4th in America, 3rd in Europe), and to set tongues a-waggin’, they’ve been drip-feeding songs from the album around the internet like delicious little morsels of heroin – seemingly innocuous, but [...]
Wed, Mar 24, 2010
Official cover art for “Heaven is Whenever” Another highly anticipated LP this year is the allegedly ‘less anthemic’ “Heaven Is Whenever“, Hold Steady‘s follow-up to the band’s previous incredible effort, the 2008 “Stay Positive“. ‘Less anthemic’ as Craig Finn puts it, though, since if I were to judge the new album by its first single, [...]
Tue, Feb 23, 2010
This post is part of our “Top Albums of The Decade” series. Follow the series to read about the best music to grace our ears in the 2000s. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty) At the beginning of the decade, one of the nation’s most talented songwriters Sufjan Stevens endeavored in a project as ambitious [...]
Thu, Feb 11, 2010
This post is part of our “Top Albums of The Decade” series. Follow the series to read about the best music to grace our ears in the 2000s. Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters (Polydor/Universal Records) Like seeing Barcelona play soccer in their homeground, listening to the Scissor Sisters’ eponymous debut album was all about experiencing [...]
Thu, Jan 7, 2010
Hope you’ve all had one hell of a crazy, yet responsible, good time this New Year’s Eve – after all, it was the last party of the year, of the decade for that matter. Oh, and it’s been such a sweet year for music, filled with some incredible scores on all fronts, hasn’t it? Rest [...]
Wed, Feb 4, 2009
Most rock n’ roll tour documentaries are fairly painful to endure, if we’re to be honest with ourselves, full of self-important man-children who think their philosophies on life, music and the laydeez are compelling viewing, and oh-so-artistic shots of the artists coming off stage (invariably with a towel wrapped around their head or neck) and [...]
Steam Daft Punk’s ‘Random Access Memories’ in FULL
Thu, May 6, 2010
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