
The Hold Steady (Performing Boys and Girls in America) / The Mountain Goats
Pioneer Courthouse Square
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Portland
Saturday, August 8 at 7 pm PDT
Concert Venue
Saturday, August 8 at 7 pm PDT
Concert Venue
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This Event is All Ages and General Admission.
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The Hold Steady
Formed in 2003, The Hold Steady have released nine albums, numerous singles and have played over a thousand shows.
The Brooklyn-based band has performed in all 50 states in the USA and throughout Canada, Europe and Australia. The Hold Steady’s music has appeared in movies, advertising and TV, including on Game Of Thrones and Billions. In addition, the band has written original material for the Seth Meyers cartoon The Awesomes and Meyers’ 2019 stand-up special Lobby Baby.
In 2023 The Hold Steady released their ninth studio LP, The Price Of Progress, to immense critical acclaim, while also releasing a book chronicling their first 20 years as a rock band. The Gospel of The Hold Steady: How A Resurrection Really Feels is an oral history written by journalist Michael Hann, featuring essays from authors Isaac Fitzgerald, Rob Sheffield and others, and included over 40 contributions from fans around the world.
The Hold Steady is: Bobby Drake (drums), Craig Finn (vocals), Tad Kubler (guitar, vocals), Franz Nicolay (keyboards, vocals), Galen Polivka (bass), and Steve Selvidge (guitar, vocals).
The Mountain Goats
There are Mountain Goats albums that emerge from historical deep dives, vividly rendered autobiography, liturgical exploration, and modern anthropological study. Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan came from a dream. In May 2023, John Darnielle took to his phone in the middle of the night to document a title from somewhere in his subconscious. Because this is the Mountain Goats—a band known for avoiding the easy route, always challenging themselves to push a step beyond—Darnielle not only decided to complete this mysterious project but also to deliver it as a full-on musical that stands as the most conceptually detailed and musically elaborate project in the band’s ever-expanding catalog.
“I loved musicals when I was a kid,” Darnielle explains, “but I hadn’t really indulged in them that much until the last 7 years or so. And then we did Jenny From Thebes, which I called a ‘fake musical’ a lot... But this one actually is going for it.”
Produced by the Mountain Goats’ multi-instrumentalist Matt Douglas, who also co-wrote several songs, the record is embracing, inviting, and overflowing with melody and orchestration that extends far beyond the boundaries of their past work. “My approach is more arrangement-based,” Douglas says of his role. “I’m trying to sculpt the shape of the songs with the layering of instruments that are suiting the song best… I am sometimes a bit of a maximalist with that stuff. Sometimes more is more!”
This Event is All Ages and General Admission.
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