Apr 22, 2022 By Joey Arnone

The Hold Steady’s frontman Craig Finn has shared a video for his latest single, “Birthdays.” It is the latest release from his forthcoming solo album, A Legacy of Rentals, which will be out May 20 via Positive Jams/Thirty Tigers. More

Mar 29, 2022 By Joey Arnone

The Hold Steady’s frontman Craig Finn has shared a video for his latest single, “Messing With the Settings.” It is the latest release from his forthcoming solo album, A Legacy of Rentals, which will be out May 20 via Positive Jams/Thirty Tigers. More

Mar 25, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the twelfth Songs of the Week of 2022. This week two icons from the 1980s united for a single and another artist from that era released their first new song in 14 years. There were also a couple of album tracks we loved. Tally it all up and we settled at 13 favorite songs this week. More

Mar 25, 2022 By Mark Redfern

The Hold Steady’s frontman Craig Finn has announced a new solo album, A Legacy of Rentals, and shared its first single, “Messing with the Settings.” More

Mar 24, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

In May 2018, Scott Hutchison, 36-year-old frontman for Scotland’s Frightened Rabbit, was found dead of apparent suicide after he was earlier reported missing by the band. Last December there was a benefit concert at Rough Trade in Brooklyn featuring the songs of Hutchison performed by Julien Baker, Ben Gibbard, Aaron Dessner from The National, Craig Finn, and others. Now the remaining members of Frightened Rabbit have released the concert as a live album that’s a free download or available to stream. More

Aug 29, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Flip These Houses is a benefit concert on September 28th at the Knockdown Center in Queens, NY. Its purpose is to encourage people to vote Democratic in this November’s midterm elections. More

Feb 22, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Titus Andronicus released their fourth album, The Most Lamentable Tragedy, last July via Merge and The Hold Steady’s frontman Craig Finn released his second solo album, Faith in the Future, last September via Partisan. More

Jun 17, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

The Hold Steady’s frontman Craig Finn will be releasing his second solo album on September 11. It’s titled Faith in the Future and due out via Partisan. NPR premiered the lyric video for the album’s first single, “Newmyer’s Roof,” which you can watch below. More

Jan 03, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

In just a few weeks’ time Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn will be releasing his first solo outing Clear Heart Full Eyes. More

Dec 13, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

With the release of his first solo outing Clear Heart Full Eyes due out in about a month’s time on Jan. 24, The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn has announced that he will be expanding his upcoming 2012 tour. More

Nov 16, 2011 By Mi Tran

The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn has announced the initial tour dates for his debut solo album, Clear Heart Full Eyes. More

Nov 07, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn is stepping away from his main gig to release Clear Heart Full Eyes—his solo debut. We have the details. More

Apr 20, 2017 By Lauren Hardy

Craig Finn has a way of making the connection from ordinary moments to extraordinary meanings. When we first met him in Lifter Puller and then in The Hold Steady his more-is-more, shot-gunned exuberance blew us away. More

Sep 10, 2015 By Ryan E.C. Hamm

Perhaps all Craig Finn needed was a slight change-of-scenery—his latest solo album is his best work since The Hold Steady’s Stay Positive. Instead of chugging bar rock and singalongs, this album is filled with quiet moments and character studies. More

Jan 26, 2012 By Luke Winkie

The Hold Steady’s crunchy bar-rock never really made much sense for frontman Craig Finn’s brand of lyrics-first, reference-laden, recurrent pan-album concepts. More