![]() The album was a loose concept album following the exploits of a character named " Holly" (short for "Halleluiah") and her quest to find a balance between Catholicism and rock and roll through drugs and a metaphorical resurrection. The band released its second album, Separation Sunday, on May 3, 2005. ![]() They were Blender (magazine)|Blender's 2006 "Band of the Year". Finn and lead guitarist Tad Kubler (both formerly of Lifter Puller) developed the idea of The Hold Steady when, while watching the The Band concert film The Last Waltz, Finn asked Kubler, "Dude, why aren't there any bands like this anymore?" The Hold Steady's 2004 debut album Almost Killed Me, released on Frenchkiss Records, was a sleeper hit among music critics, reaching #31 in the Pazz & Jop critics poll that year, an achievement which Finn described as "like being nominated for an Oscar or something." In May 2005, they were the first rock band to grace the front page of The Village Voice in 15 years. In 2003, vocalist, lyricist, and guitarist Craig Finn and New York City bartender and bassist Galen Polivka began talking about starting a band.
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