Author Archives: The Wild Arctic

Hussle Club is a New York-based darkwave project headed by man-about-town Prince Terrence, who you’ve seen before in Heartsrevolution and heroically hand-drumming for hours with Major Lazer’s live jam. And “Good Morning, Midnight,” conceived and directed by Bijoux Altamirano, is as explicit a mission statement as the band could offer: spectre-conjuring witchery with an affinity [...]

At a time when all the hipster bands are highbrow conceptualists, the Hold Steady are keeping alive the tradition of the schlubby genius. The Brooklyn quartet make something mythic from a simple set of core values: sport drinking, mosh pits, power chords, sin, salvation, Springsteen. They look like a bunch of bar backs fronted by [...]

Like hyper-wordy, classic-rocking clockwork, the Hold Steady’s fifth album—dubbed Heaven Is Whenever—is due out May 4 via Vagrant (May 3 via Rough Trade in Europe). For this record, the band re-teamed with producer Dean Baltulonis, who manned the boards on 2005′s Separation Sunday and engineered their debut, Almost Killed Me. It’s also the band’s first [...]

“If the scene were a church, then The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn would be the pastor. We live vicariously through his intricately woven tales of girls, booze, and drugs. And now we the congregation have another book of sing-along psalms and positive jams courtesy of Finn and company. The Hold Steady’s fifth studio album, Heaven [...]

Another Day Has Passed is an excellent record, possibly one of the most underrated of the year so far. Do you guys have any new tunes that you have been working on lately and if so, are there any plans to record in the near future? DO: First of all, thank you. We’ve been humbled [...]