
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
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Saturday, August 8 at 7 pm PDT
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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
Hi it's John Darnielle and this is the new Mountain Goats bio. Every time you make a record you have to have a new bio and it's a whole thing. Sometimes you have to have conversations about who'd be a good person to write the bio and other times one of the press people does it and you vet it and it goes through a whole process, but we are eliminating the middle man this time. My other job involves writing prose and I'm regarded as decent enough at it so let's fast forward through the prelims here.
Days is the something-somethingth album by the Mountain Goats. If that last phrase has a number in it then you will know it has been edited by bad people and you should stop reading now. If it says "something somethingth" then we are still together. Like at least two other tMG albums, specifically Goths and Beat the Champ, Days gets born one day when I have a funny idea. The idea in this case was writing a followup to Goths about the 90s and calling it Grunges. I made this joke on the popular recipes blog "Bluesky" and accompanied it with a brief ad-lib called "Contemplating Pearl Jam in the Carolina Dawn" that I recorded in my back yard.
But the thing about jokes is there's often something deeper underneath them, most theories of comedy attest to this, don't get me started. I'd written out a fake track listing for Grunges but then I wrote a poem about Layne Staley in the underworld getting rescued by Orpheus and I started thinking about the past, a popular theme among writers for many years now, and then I got both sad and smitten with wonder by how the past is a place upon which you both can & can't enact a sort of renovation: can, by changing perspectives; can't, because you can't actually move any parts around or change anything.
You think about this stuff as you get older, if you're lucky enough to be getting older.
This is Days by the Mountain Goats.
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