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Music: Rock/Pop The Hold Steady w/ Art Brut and the Blood Arm

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What sets the Brooklyn-based Hold Steady apart from other indie "bar bands" who like their guitars thick and ballads beer-drenched, is the delivery and wordplay of livewire/singer Craig Finn. Laying down lyrics with a slacker drawl that can turn into a verbal torrent, Finn rambles off stories of heartbreak and redemption. On its last album, Boys and Girls in America, the band brought the young and wayward characters of its songs alive with a bigger sound that had critics hearing Springsteen. However, Finn may have met his alter ego from across the pond in Art Brut singer Eddy Argos, whose self-deprecatory wit spares no one, including the British music press and his own band.

– Matt Sussman

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