Line Out - Comments on The Hold Steady are Playing Block Party... Wanna Go? http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_hold_steady_are_playing_block_party Eric Grandy reviewed the Hold Steady's latest album, Stay Positive, in this weeks paper. An excerpt: On the title track of the Hold Steady's fourth and latest record, Stay Positive (in stores this Tuesday), Craig Finn observes, "It's one... Copyright 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:00:16 -0800 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:16:16 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by douglas martin nevermind. they're playing portland that night. :(

]]> douglas martin http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_hold_steady_are_playing_block_party#c1074122 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_hold_steady_are_playing_block_party#c1074122 Block Party Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:17:31 -0800 Comment by douglas martin oops! wrong post!

]]> douglas martin http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_hold_steady_are_playing_block_party#c1074123 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_hold_steady_are_playing_block_party#c1074123 Block Party Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:18:49 -0800 Comment by lar me & my friends are like:
double whiskey, coke, no ice

]]> lar http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_hold_steady_are_playing_block_party#c1074198 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_hold_steady_are_playing_block_party#c1074198 Block Party Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:45:53 -0800 Comment by lestro actually, it's "DOUBLEWHISKEYCOKENOICE," a song by Minneapolis punk icons the Dillinger Four.

But Grundy's review, while decent, completely missed the story that develops through the lyrics. many of the songs tie together lyrically, but because most reviewers were looking for Gideon, Holly and Charlamange, they missed the entirely new story being told.
hell, i'm not yet sure what it is, but it involves a psychic, drugs, movies and death.

great record. eric should spin it a few more times...

]]> lestro http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_hold_steady_are_playing_block_party#c1074876 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_hold_steady_are_playing_block_party#c1074876 Block Party Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:28:30 -0800 Comment by Eric Grandy "i'm not yet sure what it is, but it involves a psychic, drugs, movies and death."

Yeah, that's way more incisive than what I could come up with. Watch me click through to your blog...

]]> Eric Grandy http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_hold_steady_are_playing_block_party#c1077747 http://lineout.thestranger.com/2008/07/the_hold_steady_are_playing_block_party#c1077747 Block Party Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:16:16 -0800