{"id":4639,"date":"2011-08-25T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=4639"},"modified":"2011-07-29T10:39:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T14:39:24","slug":"spotlight-the-hold-steady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2011\/08\/spotlight-the-hold-steady\/","title":{"rendered":"SPOTLIGHT: The Hold Steady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Hold-Steady.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Hold-Steady.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Hold-Steady\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Hold-Steady.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Hold-Steady-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Hold Steady will perform at <strong>Cat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cradle<\/strong> on Aug 31.<br \/>\nFormed after vocalist\/guitarist Craig Finn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s move from Minneapolis \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which is significant in that his songs seem to indicate he left something there, and really, really misses the place \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Brooklyn-based The Hold Steady has carved out a sound in the Big City landscape that, as the band acknowledges, nods to the Replacements and the Grifters, takes a deep bow to such classic rockers as Led Zeppelin and Creedence and extends a heartfelt head butt to The Clash.<br \/>\nFinn writes thoughtful, engaging lyrics, but The Hold Steady remains, essentially, a straight-ahead rock-\u00e2\u20ac\u2122n\u00e2\u20ac\u2122-roll band. Critics love \u00e2\u20ac\u2122em, and lots of other folks too.<br \/>\nThe Donkeys open. Doors swing at 8 p.m. Show starts at 9. Tickets are $18 in advance, $20 day of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hold Steady will perform at Cat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cradle on Aug 31. Formed after vocalist\/guitarist Craig Finn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s move from Minneapolis \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which is significant in that his songs seem to indicate he left something there, and really, really misses the place \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Brooklyn-based The Hold Steady has carved out a sound in the Big City landscape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4642,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4639\/revisions\/4642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}