Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Cream Calendar The Hold Steady to Play Exit/In, Sept. 21
Posted by Lance Conzett on Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:39 PM
If you’ll remember, the last time that Craig Finn & Co. brought their songs about getting drunk at Twin Cities parties, lapsed Catholicism and obscure literary references to town, it was Halloween 2008, and they opened for Drive-By Truckers at The Ryman. They dressed up as founding fathers and The Spin seemed concerned by the amount of dudes in attendance. Since then, they’ve released a new album of Springsteen-y jams and parted ways with keyboardist/mustache aficionado Franz Nicolay. But most meaningful in my digital-age opinion is the “Fake Craig Finn” Twitter account that got started up a couple months ago.
Here’s a fun game — I’m going to list three lyrics, and you try to figure out which one’s the real deal:
A) “She played me 'Blood on the Tracks' / and washed the blood off my hands / yeah, she's got dangerous promise”B) “She mouthed the words along to 'Running Up That Hill' / That song got scratched into her soul / He's never heard the song before”
C) “She told me Ian MacKaye was her savior / I said there's nothing straight about any of my edges / That night I found out hers were curvy too”
Tickets cost $18 and will go on sale on Friday at 10 a.m. Get them at the Exit/In website.
The answer is "B," that's a line from "Hornets! Hornets!" off Separation Sunday.
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Am I the only, uh, dude who doesn't get these dudes? I mean, I drove to Athens to see them and Art Brut at the 40-Watt in '07...and Art Brut, ephemeral & ultimately dispensable though they were, rocked my stoned & drunk face off, Eddie Argos lurching precariously upon the bar and spraying everyone with champagne (and, to me, later, drunkenly proclaiming he was marrying the Alabaman skank on his arm as I asked him about his friend and colleague Luke Haines), while The Hold Steady - repeatedly championed as heroes of indie rock and, even more atrociously, "the best live band in the world" - just came off as a nerdy, overachieving college-rock bar band (albeit one in thrall to Bruce) that had gotten inexplicably Oasis-lucky for some reason.
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Unfortunately they lost the really goofy guy. You know, the one who looked like an elementary-school art teacher who showed up for the wrong gig. Will they still be as good live? I hope so.
They were on Colbert. Colbert said "The kids love you! And when I say kids I mean 35-40 year old men."
He was obvs a fan.
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