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Fists will be raised. Riffs will be swapped. And damn if beers won't be sold at an unusually brisk pace, as the Hold Steady and Drive-By Truckers link up for a monthlong North American sojourn this fall they're calling the "Rock and Roll Means Well Tour." The two bands will spend their time together switching up headlining slots-- details below.

This isn't the first time the Hold Steady's path has crossed with the Truckers. Trucker Patterson Hood lent some vocals to Stay Positive 's "Navy Sheets", and in a press release announcing the tour, Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn says, "Seeing the Drive-By Truckers on the Southern Rock Opera tour was instrumental to me wanting to start a band and play music again. That band is the Hold Steady. This tour brings it full circle, and it will be a pleasure and an honor to be able to share a stage with the Truckers. We're gonna have a really good time."

Just a slightly better fit than the Counting Crows thing, ain't it?

Despite this welcome show of intra-band unity, Hold Steady guitarist Tad Kubler got himself into a bit of hot water on the internet over the weekend following an interview with BBC's 6Music. Speaking about Radiohead and their recent In Rainbows blitz, Kubler opined, "I think they've lost the plot. What are they doing? Where are they going? What's happening? I don't get it any more. They lost me. I still appreciate what they're doing, or what they're trying to do. But I think they're trying too hard not to be Radiohead. That seems a little ridiculous to me."

He went on, "I like them as a rock band, all the buttons and sequencing and stuff like that I don't really care for. I'm a fan of rock music and what they're doing now I don't think is very good. When you have that kind of money, you can put on a great performance regardless of what you do. If you can't go out and pick up your instruments and play a good show, that doesn't do it for me. I don't have any interest in that."

He then talked slightly less smack about Muse and praised Oasis for being "earnest" and "honest," but this being the internet, people are less inclined to care about nice things people have to say.

Regardless of whether or not you agree with Mr. Kubler's assessment of Radiohead, you've gotta admit, he's hardly the only one with a negative opinion on the matter.


Hold Steady/Drive-By Truckers "Rock and Roll Means Well" tour:

10-30 Louisville, KY - Coyote's at City Block *
10-31 Nashville, TN - Ryman Auditorium !
11-01 Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle !
11-02 Tallahassee, FL - The Moon *
11-03 Raleigh, NC - Lincoln Theatre !
11-05 State College, PA - The State Theatre *
11-06 New York, NY - Terminal 5 !
11-07 New York, NY - Terminal 5 *
11-08 Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory !
11-09 Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre *
11-11 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix Theatre !
11-12 Pittsburgh, PA - Carnegie Music Hall *
11-13 Bloomington, IN - Bluebird !
11-13 Chicago, IL - Riviera *
11-15 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue !
11-16 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue *
11-19 Boise, ID - The Big Easy !
11-20 Seattle, WA - Showbox *
11-21 Seattle, WA - Showbox !
11-22 Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom *
11-23 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore !
11-24 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore *
11-25 Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern *

* the Hold Steady closing
! Drive-By Truckers closing

Hold Steady:

08-29 Philadelphia, PA - TLA !
09-29 Oxford, England - Academy
09-30 Manchester, England - Manchester University
10-01 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC
10-02 Wolverhampton, England - Wulfrun Hall
10-04 Bristol, England - Anson Rooms
10-05 Nottingham, England - Rock City
10-06 Portsmouth, England - Pyramids
10-08 London, England - Roundhouse
10-09 Paris, France - Nouveau Casino
10-11 Hamburg, Germany - Knust
10-12 Cologne, Germany - Luxor
10-13 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Melkweg
10-15 Oslo, Norway - Rockerfeller
10-16 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser Slussen
10-17 Goteborg, Sweden - Sticky Fingers
10-19 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
10-20 Berlin, Germany - Columbia Club
10-21 Vienna, Austria - WUK
10-22 Munich, Germany - Ampere
12-16 Den Bosch, Netherlands - Brabanthallen *
12-20 Dublin, Ireland - The 02 *
12-21 Belfast, Northern Ireland - Odyssey Arena *

! with Sonic Youth
* with Counting Crows, Melee

Drive-By Truckers:

08-24 San Francisco, CA - Outside Lands Music Festival
08-31 Decatur, GA - AJC Decatur Book Festival (Patterson Hood Solo)
09-13 Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Revolution
09-14 Gainesville, FL - The Real Big Deal Festival
09-15 Tuscaloosa, AL - Bama Theatre *
09-17 Columbia, SC - Headliners Music Hall *
09-18 Charlotte, NC - Amos' Southend *
09-19 Norfolk, VA - Norva *
09-20 Charlottesville, VA - Charlottesville Pavilion !
09-21 Baltimore, MD - Pier 6 !
09-24 Houston, TX - Meridian
09-25 Dallas, TX - House of Blues ^
09-26 Austin, TX - Emo's Outside ^
09-27 Austin, TX - Austin City Limits Music Festival
09-29 Baton Rouge, LA - Varsity Theatre *
09-30 Hattiesburg, MS - Bottling Company *
10-01 Oxford, MS - The Lyric *

* with Don Chambers and GOAT
! with the Avett Brothers
^ with Shooter Jennings