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 - 2009年 07月 15日
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 - 2009年 02月 23日
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 - 2009年 02月 12日
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 - 2009年 01月 30日
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 - 2009年 01月 20日
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 - 2009年 01月 07日
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 - 2009年 09月 02日
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...