The Hold Steady

When I lived in Minneapolis back in the late ‘90s, I knew of Lifter Puller. Had the Half Dead and Dynamite CD but never got to see them live. My haunts were a little more pedestrian: 7th Street Entry, 400 Bar, Lee’s Liquor Lounge, as well as a couple scary-ass shows at the Terminal Bar.

When The Hold Steady hit in the 2004 I got right in with that first Almost Killed Me record!

We gotta start it off with a positive jam
We gotta start it with a positive jam, man
Gotta start it with a positive jam

And they did! I’ve seen them a handful of times in the last twenty years and a couple years back Trevor Solomon marched my girth backstage and I had Craig Finn sign my Fiestas + Fiascoes and Separation Sunday records. We spoke of mutual buds in the Twin Cities and I got to thank them for all the positive jams. Nice fella.

Thank you to David Gottlieb and Kevin O’Halloran for breaking this poster off for the DDC!

The Hold Steady &
The Mountain Goats
August 8, 2026, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, Ore.

Project Details:
01. 5-color screen print on durable, uncoated “Way White” 100 lb poster paper!
02. 18" (W) × 24" (H) in dimension.
03. Two-sided! Woodland Park Zoo design by Stevie Shao on the other side!
04. Screen-printed by River Flat in Wilkes Barre, Penn.
05. Limited edition of 300.