Barroom pioneers The Hold Steady have signed to Rough Trade.
The Brooklyn band, part of the borough’s famed avant-garde noise-scene, will have their new album released through the London label in the UK and Europe after a licencing deal was agreed with Hold Steady’s regular stable Vagrant.
Singer Craig Finn says the band are “really excited to begin this relationship with Rough Trade” for their fourth album, the follow-up to last year’s Boys and Girls in America.
“From The Smiths to The Strokes, they have consistently released music from great artists and we are honoured to be a part of the roster. Rough Trade records have been part of my own collection since I started buying my own records in the early 1980s."
The band will be celebrating the partnership at various locales in the UK and Ireland next month:
May
11 Camber Sands ATP
13 Dublin Academy
14 Belfast Spring and Airbrake
16 Brighton Great Escape
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hahaha
"part of the borough's famed avant-garde noise scene"
Have you ever heard the Hold Steady?!
That irony button on your keyboard isn't working, Kev
oh crap
was that meant to be ironic? How embarassing :(
the keyboard player in this band is...
really...
annoying...
like an embarassing uncle playing in a wedding band
he's an absolute
fucking gent and a really lovely funny bloke too.
so arse off, arse.
Why change label?
Could Rough Trade have done better than the previous label with the last album? Loads of good press, gigs sold out, high expectations for the new album. It seems to have been very well managed to me.
Dublin-
based readers will be alarmed that their city has been annexed by the UK...
:D
Heh!
I got an edit to the story. Go me.
Sell outs!
Love this band
New stuff they played at KOKO kicked ass. Plus Franz, the keyboard player, is a true gentleman and something of a legend. Anyone that can finish more or less a whole bottle of Jameson's onstage and still play like 90 possessed bastards is to be commended.