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Worried the coming months won't contain enough massive nights? Dismayed you may never know how a resurrection really feels? Well, Craig Finn and his band of bar-barons The Hold Steady are now streaming their entire new album, Stay Positive, via MySpace to put you on the fast track to a constructive summer.
So go find that old bottle of Evan Williams you'd been saving for the weekend, nestle up with something Kerouac and harness your inner, fallen-away Catholic. Then plug your computer into those speakers and say to hell with the little red line on the volume button. If there is a band left in America meant to ring in your ears for a week, it is this band.
Stay Positive is not available for purchase until July 15, but fans will have to wait just a little bit longer for that live fix. As Finn proudly states in the opening seconds, "Our songs are sing-along songs," and folks will get to sing along indeed when the band kicks off its tour on June 27 in Baltimore.
While listening along you might want to take a look at our Dear Diary blog where Stay Positive producer John Agnello is taking us through the process of making the record. In three separate diary-style entries so far, Agnello has already talked about how the extended sing-along chorus to "Sequester In Memphis" came about, what the constant touring does for the band's musicianship and yes, the official "Stay Positive Beard Off." That's right. A genuine, old-fashioned beard off. Take that, Built To Spill! Agnello will continue posting up until the album's release.
Without further adieu, then, stream that album like whoa. Ahoy!
Related links:
TheHoldSteady.com
UnifiedScene.com
Cover Story: We're An American Band: The Hold Steady holds steady
Got news tips for Paste? E-mail news@pastemagazine.com.
Stay Positive is not available for purchase until July 15, but fans will have to wait just a little bit longer for that live fix. As Finn proudly states in the opening seconds, "Our songs are sing-along songs," and folks will get to sing along indeed when the band kicks off its tour on June 27 in Baltimore.
While listening along you might want to take a look at our Dear Diary blog where Stay Positive producer John Agnello is taking us through the process of making the record. In three separate diary-style entries so far, Agnello has already talked about how the extended sing-along chorus to "Sequester In Memphis" came about, what the constant touring does for the band's musicianship and yes, the official "Stay Positive Beard Off." That's right. A genuine, old-fashioned beard off. Take that, Built To Spill! Agnello will continue posting up until the album's release.
Without further adieu, then, stream that album like whoa. Ahoy!
Related links:
TheHoldSteady.com
UnifiedScene.com
Cover Story: We're An American Band: The Hold Steady holds steady
Got news tips for Paste? E-mail news@pastemagazine.com.
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