Before they moved to New York and formed the Hold Steady, Craig Finn and Tad Kubler made up half of Lifter Puller, a Minneapolis band who broke up before many had a chance to hear them. If you've ...

Craig Finn is starting to sweat through his Twins T-shirt as he runs around the empty Bowery Ballroom. Among the items on his to-do list is checking on the arrival of his favorite Minneapolis rapper, ...

When Craig Finn left Minneapolis at the end of 2000, he had no plans to start another band. Relocating to Brooklyn, he left behind a band called Lifter Puller, who were nearly legendary in the Twin ...

Lifter Puller has generally been remembered merely as the band Craig Finn and Tad Kubler were in before they formed The Hold Steady. But in reality, the group was its own unique, thrilling entity, ...

Way back in the late nineties Craig Finn and Tad Kubler of the Hold Steady played in a Minneapolis band that was every bit as loved, if not as commercially successful, as their current outfit: The ...

Lifter Puller fandom has never been first and foremost about the music, though. It’s about Finn’s lyrics. Download the reissues and listen to them all, starting with Lifter Puller, and see if you ...

As the lead singer and songwriter in The Hold Steady — and, before that, Lifter Puller — Craig Finn filled the air with a frenetic flood of words, singing vividly about antiheroes who seek escape and ...

Hard to believe that one not-so-great $400 Schecter brand guitar was enough to launch a promising new band, but nearly anything is believable when it comes to Steve Barone. The former Lifter Puller ...

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