The Hold Steady

Exclusive/special releases for today’s Bandcamp fundraiser include Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, Arab Strap, The Hold Steady, Straylight Run, Sacred Bones’ Black Sabbath tribute LP, !!!, The Helio Sequence, Cloud Nothings, Mogwai, and much more….

It’s the title track of Craig’s upcoming compilation, which features songs from the sessions of his last three solo albums that ”didn’t fit the theme or the flow of the record they were recorded for.”

Plus New Order and Pet Shop Boys, Black Keys, Car Seat Headrest, They Might Be Giants, Four Tet, King Buzzo, Santana and Earth Wind and Fire, Norah Jones and Mavis Staples, Jhene Aiko, The Hold Steady, Kraftwerk, EOB, Billy Bragg and more.

Plus: New Order & Pet Shop Boys, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Kraftwerk, Judas Priest, The Black Keys, Four Tet, GWAR, They Might Be Giants, and more tour news.

”Nashville’s got a similar vibe to what’s going on in Brooklyn,” says Brooklyn Bowl’s Peter Shapiro. ”(It has) a lot of creative and outgoing people who like to work hard, play hard and have fun, and love live music.”

Plus: watch Debbie Harry and Jesse Malin perform The Pogues’ Christmas classic ”Fairytale of New York.”

On Saturday, January 4, which would’ve been David Berman’s 53rd birthday, Union Pool is hosting DCBday

“This is the fourth year in a row we’ve done this,” Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn told the Brooklyn Bowl crowd on the first of their four-show Massive Nights run. “What’s different this year is we have a new album.”

It’s officially December, NYC got its first snowfall of the season, lights and trees are going up everywhere, and The Hold Steady’s ‘Massive Nights’ run at NYC’s Brooklyn Bowl is about to begin…

The Clash’s classic third album London Calling turns 40 this year and there will be a very special tribute to the album at Bowery Ballroom on December 14, which is the LP’s actual 40th birthday…