The Current's Music On-A-Stick featuring The Hold Steady with special guests Bob Mould Band and Dillinger Four at the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand

Saturday, Sept. 2, 7 p.m.
$27, $37 (all reserved seating)

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The Hold Steady

Formed in 2003, The Hold Steady have released eight albums, numerous singles and have played over a thousand shows.

The Brooklyn-based band have performed in all 50 states in the USA and throughout Canada, Europe and Australia.  The Hold Steady’s music has appeared in movies, advertising and TV, including on Game Of Thrones and Billions. In addition, that band has written original material for the Seth Meyers cartoon The Awesomes and Meyers’s 2019 stand-up special Lobby Baby.

2023 marks the 20th Anniversary of The Hold Steady and will see an expanded collection of music and activities to celebrate the milestone with their fans.  The band’s 9th album, The Price Of Progress, released on March 31, 2023 on their own Positive Jams record label via Thirty Tigers.

The Hold Steady returns to Minneapolis-St. Paul on September 2, to perform at The Current’s Music On-A-Stick with the Bob Mould Band and Dillinger Four.

The band will finish the year with the annual four-night Massive Nights celebration at Brooklyn Bowl in Brooklyn, N.Y. from November 29 through December 2.

The Hold Steady are: Bobby Drake (drums), Craig Finn (vocals), Tad Kubler (guitar, vocals), Franz Nicolay (keyboards, vocals), Galen Polivka (bass), and Steve Selvidge (guitar, vocals).

Bob Mould Band

In 2022, Bob Mould released The Ocean, a new EP featuring three solo acoustic live performances, via Merge. Originally recorded for NPR’s World Café at Mould’s Granary Music home studio in San Francisco, The Ocean collects stripped back versions of ‘The Ocean’ and ‘Forecast of Rain‘, both first found on Blue Hearts, as well as a striking rendition of the Hüsker Dü classic, ‘Divide and Conquer‘ (from Flip Your Wig).

Mould’s most recent album, Blue Hearts, was released in September 2020 – the rawest and most confrontational work of his four-decade solo career, it’s a raging 14-track collection described by its creator as “the catchiest batch of protest songs I’ve ever written in one sitting.” Produced by Mould at Chicago’s famed Electrical Audio with longtime collaborator Beau Sorenson engineering, the album – which once again features backing from the crack rhythm section of drummer Jon Wurster and bassist Jason Narducy – nods to the veteran singer-songwriter’s groundbreaking past while remaining firmly planted in the issues of the day.

Dillinger Four

Dillinger Four are from Minneapolis, Minnesota. They formed in 1994. In terms of importance, they are to the ‘90s and ’00s what Black Flag was to the ’80s (without the Grateful Dead worship). It’s not only what they are, a great band, it’s what they’ve helped inspire, build, and represent. They’re an earthquake. They’re the Redd Foxx- mixed with the Chalmers Johnson of punk rock.

Dillinger Four are Erik Funk (guitar, vocals), Paddy Costello (bass, vocals), Billy Morrisette (guitar, vocals) and Lane Pederson (drums).