"Your little hoodrat friend has been calling me again/
And I can't stand all the things that she sticks into her skin/
Like sharpened ballpoint pens and steel guitar strings/
She says it hurts but it's worth it."
With impeccably observed lines like that, it's no surprise New York's The Hold Steady are every rock critics' favourite band right now. Their first two albums have just been re-released. The second of them, 2005's Separation Sunday, contains the fantastic Your Little Hoodrat Friend, a driving street symphony that suggests Born To Run gone punk.
9:33 AM | 06/06/2007
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