The Hold Steady and The Thermals

The Hold Steady and The Thermals are playing at Off Broadway on March 15, 2007. Both bands put on a blistering live show. The Hold Steady play straight-ahead, bluesy, boozy midwest rock'n'roll. The Thermals definitely have a more "punk" approach to their politically-inspired rock than The Hold Steady, but to be sure, both bring the Rock. The Thermals latest album, The Body, the Blood, The Machine, found itself in dozens of "best-of-2006" lists.

MP3's:
The Hold Steady - Your Little Hoodrat Friend
The Hold Steady - The Swish

The Hold Steady - "Stuck Between Stations", live at the Warsaw in Brooklyn:


The Hold Steady - "212 Margarita", live at the Sound Fix in Brooklyn:


The Thermals live:

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Bonus: Kwaya Na Kisser has the recent "secret" Arcade Fire performance at St. Michael's Chuch in Montreal available for donwload here.

The Hold Steady/The Thermals Pics

The Hold Steady and The Thermals put on a great show to a sold out crowd here in St. Louis on Thursday night. The crowd was definitely there for the Hold Steady, but The Thermals were great, too.

The Hold Steady:










Some chick that helped herself onto the stage. Craig was clearly annoyed, asking the crowd, "Which one of you is here with the drunk?":


The whole crowd on the stage during the last song:


The Thermals:










Rob Corddry was at the show, for some reason. I couldn't sneak a pic of him, so this will have to do:

Tonight

Don't forget to come out to Off Broadway tonight for what promises to be one of the best shows of 2007 yet, to see The Hold Steady and The Thermals.

Here's some live footage to get you ready/convince you:

The Hold Steady performing "Stuck Between Stations" on Letterman:


The Hold Steady - "Cattle and the Creeping Things":


The Hold Steady - "Your Little Hoodrat Friend":


The Thermals - "Here's Your Future":

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Bonus:
Mogwai performing "You Don't Know Jesus" live at La Route Du Rock 2001:

Some Stuff

Here's some older stuff I've been meaning to get to for a while:

One of the friends I was with at The Hold Steady/Thermals show wrote a review of it for Playback, which you can read here.

Here are some pictures from the Apples in Stereo show a few weeks ago: