By Matt Chaban 1/19/12 11:20am

Red Carpet Real Estate

Maybe he'll switch to a Nets jersey next year. (Sportress of Blogitude)

Holding Steady in Greenpoint, Where Craig Finn Goes to Grow Up

Ring, ring, ring goes the telephone/Tell my little lambs that I’m on my way home/Stop by the shop and get a bottle to go/Maybe something stronger if the right guy’s on the corner.

So sings Craig Finn on “Our Whole Lives” from two years ago. Perhaps the Hold Steady frontman was thinking of the liquor store at the corner of Manhattan and Nassau avenues in Greenpoint. (You know the one, where the local Polish Greenpointers go to cash their paychecks.)

Turns out that the bespectacled bandleader has settled in the neighborhood after a decade in Brooklyn, and in today’s Post, Craig Finn gives a tour of his one-bedroom apartment there at the same time his “quieter” solo album is out. Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 11/06/06 12:00am

Upbeat, Warm and Sunny, A Band Bids Angst Adieu

The Hold Steady’s second album, Separation Sunday, starts late at night, in a quiet, dirty room. As lead singer Craig Finn tells it in the opening verse, the girl looks down at what’s left and, with tired apprehension, says to the boy: “I won’t be much for conversation if we go and do the rest Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 11/06/06 12:00am

Upbeat, Warm and Sunny, A Band Bids Angst Adieu

The Hold Steady’s second album, Separation Sunday, starts late at night, in a quiet, dirty room. As lead singer Craig Finn tells it in the opening verse, the girl looks down at what’s left and, with tired apprehension, says to the boy: “I won’t be much for conversation if we go and do the rest Read More