“Grand Junction” by Hold Steady

Craig Finn wrote the words to "Grand Junction" and the music with Tad Kubler, and it lands on The Price of Progress, the Hold Steady's ninth studio album, out March 31, 2023, through Positive Jams and Thirty Tigers. Josh Kaufman produced it, his third straight album behind the board with the band after Thrashing Thru the Passion and Open Door Policy.

Finn has said the record keeps circling late-stage capitalism: how people get by, what they'll do for money, inequality, and the way social media and technology feed into all of it. He's compared its mood to George Saunders' Liberation Day, where he felt that late-capitalist backdrop had crept closer to the foreground; he'd had Saunders on his podcast, That's How I Remember It.

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