Last week, we reported that an onslaught of reissued Lifter Puller material is on the way. The beloved Minneapolis post-punk band broke up in 2000, and frontman Craig Finn and bassist Tad Kubler went ...

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 ...

Lifter Puller at D4th of July (via Hold Steady Twitter) ...

First, an apology, or at least an explanation. Any of you who've read much I've written over the last few years might know of my adoration for the work of the Hold Steady. Given that, it was ...

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 ...

How does Lifter Puller differ from the more famous band it spawned? Why hasn't Fiestas + Fiascos attracted a large audience the way The Hold Steady's albums have?

October 4, 2006 • In a perfect rock 'n' roll world, everyone who ever loved the rambling-rogue storytelling of early Bruce Springsteen or Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy would know about Lifter Puller. The ...

Normally, the Gnome wouldn’t resort to the columnist’s lazy-ass tactic of answering reader mail in lieu of reporting from the front, but the Memorial Day weekend brings an early deadline that ...

One For Keeps is a new features series in which musicOMH writers wax lyrical on albums they’d just not be able to cope without. Kicking things off, Mic Wright lines ...