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 ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

Does this mean that after five years, Lifter Puller are finally making a living off their music? “Hell, no,” Finn says with a laugh. “I suppose we could eke out a living from it if we were on the road ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...