Here's a couple articles about the Hold Steady:


"I want people to remember this stuff, and the thing is not only singing, but having repetitive choruses," Finn says. "Things like that allow people to maybe latch on in a way. If you were just having someone yell at you for 45 minutes, you might not retain any of it. But if they repeated themselves a few times, maybe you'd get that."

"One of the things that I think any songwriter tries to do, at least the songwriters I really love, is they're able to say something that's very specific . . . but even if you don't get the reference, even if you don't know where Franklin Avenue is in Minneapolis, hopefully there's something about the lyric that's also universal enough so even through the specificness you can say something that people universally understand."