Character sketches in songs are hard enough to pull off. Craig Finn manages it and adds suspense in "Sarah, Calling From A Hotel".

The frontmen and songwriters for the Hold Steady and Drive-By Truckers both released solo albums earlier this year ...

Craig Finn and Patterson Hood have announced plans for a very special co-headline tour. The shows get underway with a ...

Craig Finn and Patterson Hood have announced plans for a very special co-headline tour. The shows – which will see the two ...

Plus: Addison Rae, The Violent Femmes, Nick Kroll, Wilco, Just Mustard, Upchuck, Guerilla Toss, Pigpen, Texas is the Reason ...

Sometimes that involves a great turn of phrase. Leader of literary bar band The Hold Steady, and an accomplished solo artist, Craig Finn might just be our modern-day poet laureate of rock.

When I met up with Craig Finn last week at a Minneapolis coffee shop, I was slightly worried that we might have trouble finding one another. We are, after all, two bookish white guys between the ...

How is this going to be different from the artist’s music with the group? Well, Craig Finn has a unique answer on Always Been: he’s joined a new band…kinda. Finn’s sixth solo album finds ...

“I believe this to be the most narrative record I have made,” says Craig Finn. “Most songs concern a protagonist who pursued a career as a clergyman despite a lack of faith. The record tells ...