As the keyboardist in the Hold Steady, Franz Nicolay serves as the Roy Bittan to Craig Finn's Springsteen, animating the singer's street parables with...
cloudspeakers - 15.07.2009
You may recognise Franz Nicolay from band photographs of The Hold Steady: he?s the dude who plays the keyboard and looks like an exuberant French bake...
Chris Conaton - 23.02.2009
The problem with opening up an album with all guns blazing is that the rest of the record has to live up to that first song. Franz Nicolay runs into t...
Paul Thompson - 12.02.2009
We've been in the same room maybe a dozen times now, but I'd never heard Franz Nicolay speak until I saw him play to a half-empty house on a Saturday ...
Tyler Craig - 30.01.2009
Franz Nicolay is a brilliant character, straight out of fiction: The Hold Steady’s live show, while not introducing or innovating anything at all, is ...
Noel Murray - 20.01.2009
Mustachioed Hold Steady keyboard player Franz Nicolay had a thriving music career both as a solo artist and a sideman before he signed on to serve Cra...
JOSH MODELL - 07.01.2009
Franz Nicolay has the best mustache in the Hold Steady, but his songwriting is in desperate need of similar creative twists. Stepping out solo, the en...
Sascha Daniel - 02.09.2009
Es gibt diesen Moment in World/Inferno Vs. The End Of The Evening, in dem Franz Nicolay zum Refrain ansetzt und die Gänsehaut unausweichlich zu sein...