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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“FUCK YEAH!” says a happy Craig Finn when asked if he’s really quit his day job. The singer and guitarist for Minneapolis quartet Lifter Puller had been working at the trading desk in the brokerage ...

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 ...

Near 15th and Franklin is a club called the Nice Nice. Here, Night Club Dwight supplies Katrina, Juanita, Jenny and the raver kids with gallons of alcohol and distributes pills as if they were ...