The Hold Steady to release live album+DVD, "A Positive Rage"


Vagrant has unveiled plans to release a new live album and DVD package from The Hold Steady. The record is titled Positive Rage and is due out April 7, 2009. It will feature a 53-minute documentary begins with The Hold Steady's first ever
London performances with never-before-seen live footage, back stage
interviews with the band members, fan commentary and the original, raw
audio. Cameras follow the band as they return to the US for a 24-date
tour that culminates with a performance
at First Avenue in Minneapolis.

The live album was recorded on October 31, 2007 and includes seventeen
songs that Craig Finn, Tad Kubler, Galen Polivka, Franz Nicolay, and
Bobby Drake performed on the second of their two-night sold-out stand
at the Metro in Chicago. The enhanced album will also feature five
bonus studio tracks: "Ask Her For Adderall," "Cheyenne Sunrise," "Two
Handed Handshake," and the previously unreleased tracks "Spectres" and
"40 Bucks."

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  • A Positive Rage track listing:
  • Intro
  • Stuck Between Stations
  • The Swish
  • Chips Ahoy!
  • Massive Nights
  • Ask Her For Adderall
  • Barfruit Blues
  • Same Kooks
  • You Gotta Dance (With Who You Came With)
  • Lord, I'm Discouraged
  • You Can Make Him Like You
  • Your Little Hoodrat Friend
  • Southtown Girls
  • Citrus
  • First Night
  • Girls Like Status
  • Killer Parities