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 ...

We got the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn to open up about the stories behind the songs of his old band, Lifter Puller, but Pitchfork has done us one better. They dug up a full set from the band’s ...

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 ...

October 4, 2006 • In a perfect rock 'n' roll world, everyone who ever loved the rambling-rogue storytelling of early Bruce Springsteen or Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy would know about Lifter Puller. 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, ...

How does Lifter Puller differ from the more famous band it spawned? Why hasn't Fiestas + Fiascos attracted a large audience the way The Hold Steady's albums have?