Good news everyone!
The Hold Steady released a new live album (A Positive Rage) this week and it happens to be from a show recorded at Chicago's Metro on Halloween of 2007. This is probably only exciting to me and John Luzar and the few hundred other people who just happened to be at that very show. Nevertheless!
If you're not familiar with The Hold Steady, you should take steps to amend this shortcoming. The Hold Steady are a fantastic band. I recommend The Hold Steady if you enjoy any combination of the following things: cheap beer, Born To Run, pain pills, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Minneapolis, Chicago, John Berryman, heroin, Charles Bukowski, Joe Strummer, rock and roll music of any kind. However, if you are among the unexposed, I do not recommend you purchase this new live release. Stay the hell away from it, in fact. Instead, pick up the amazing Boys And Girls In America (2006) or the nearly-as-amazing Stay Positive from last summer. The live album is strictly a 'fans-only' sort of deal.
But if you do pick it up, listen closely for the dulcet tones of SMH chiming in on the 'Woah-oh-ohs' of "Massive Nights".
Oh, and their Halloween costumes? Banditos. Complete with fake mustaches, except for the guitarist. His was real.
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