Steve Conte

My “We Like It” video, which won this prestigious Best Music Video award at The Golden Door International Film Festival was the work of many:

Director Peter Perenyi & son Orion Perenyi who filmed all of my performance bits at their studio, NATBORN (Westchester, NY), motion graphics & final edit by David Provan at 12 Inch Media (UK), songwriting by myself & Andy Partridge, music production by myself with additional remote production by Andrew Hollander & Andy Partridge, mixing by Geoff Sanoff at Renegade Studios (NYC) and of course, the musicians; Prairie Prince/drums, John Conte/bass, Rob Schwimmer/keyboards & a host of backing vocalists (to be named later.)

Many thanks to Christian Keiber, Bill & Michele Sorvino and everyone who works so hard at the Golden Door Film Festival. This is truly an honor!!

More thanks goes to my songwriting hero from XTC, the great Andy Partridge who brought me this little nugget of a song idea and allowed me to finish it off – with his genius input every step of the way.

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See the video here:
https://youtu.be/k4Kjq_0b2l8?si=KnFVQ-BSI_EldHno

My man Alice Cooper understands the relevance of ELECTION songs right about now…and next to his “Elected”, this Cooper site has featured my song “We Like It” – which is kinda the same subject matter. Nice one! Thanks to Dennis Dunaway… 💜 Link to site + my video here: https://www.sickthingsuk.co.uk

And more thanks to Michael Monroe, who introduced me to Alice while we were on tour together and to Ryan Roxie, Tommy Henriksen & Chuck Garric who all talked The Coop into getting me onstage with them for “School’s Out” – 3 times!!

#alicecooper #elected #steveconte #welikeit #andypartridge #xtc #dennisdunaway #bass #election #Election2024 #electionyear

You asked about the new Concrete Jangle T-shirts – well, here’s the ordering info!

https://steveconte.bandcamp.com/merch/concrete-jangle-t-shirts

See Steve’s video for “We Like It” from The Concrete Jangle album!

Featuring the voices of: Ian Hunter, Marshall Crenshaw, Michael Imperioli, Simon Kirke, Danko Jones, Nasty Suicide, Dennis Dunaway, Steve Lillywhite, Kasim Sultan, Glen Matlock, Prairie Prince, Thommy Price, Kevin Preston, Tommy Henrickson, Damon Johnson, Frank Lammers, Marc Broussard, Jessie Wagner, Palmyra Delran, Genya Ravan, Ryan Hamilton, Kevin Salem, Danny B. Harvey, Jonathan Clarke, Mickey Leigh, Robert Eriksson, Dregen & Majsan, Kevin March, Chips Kiesbye, Rich Jones, Billy Hopeless, Kyf Brewer, Rich Ragany, Keith Roth, Alycia Jones, Jay Millete, John & Jennifer Kerns, Danni Action,  Christian Keiber, Kerry McGann, The Brazen Giant Ensemble,  Ben Rubin, Jan Verdoorn, Rick Tedesco, Westley Crawford, Janie Barnett, Nicki Richards, Lajuan Carter-Dent & Baz Conte (many of whom can be seen in this video…) 

*Special video appearance by XTC’s Andy Partridge!!

Strap in for some political commentary that doesn’t take sides and calls out the ridiculousness of both parties…

For the past month you’ve only been able to get the vinyl via Record Store Day – but now you can get copies of the new album on Orange Vinyl & CD directly through my Bandcamp page – SIGNED & personalized by Yours Truly!

https://steveconte.bandcamp.com/merch/the-concrete-jangle-on-orange-vinyl-signed-by-steve

https://steveconte.bandcamp.com/merch/the-concrete-jangle-cd-signed

*All orders include a FREE download  of Steve’s ’90s power-pop song, “So Much For Love”(Acoustic Demo) by Steve Conte & Kyf Brewer.

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I’m super excited about my new album on Wicked Cool Records – and once again, I must crow about how psyched I am to have written 1/2 of it with one of my songwriting heroes – XTC’s Andy Partridge! 

I pulled out all the stops to make this my most melodic, hard power-pop, Beatles-eque, rock ‘n’ soul album to date – with lyrical themes I haven’t explored before!

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Tracks 1-5 (Side A on vinyl) written by Conte/Partridge

Tracks 6-10 (Side B on vinyl) written by Conte

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My Bandcamp shop will be closing for the summer on June 20 so be sure to get your order in TODAY if you want a hard copy of The Concrete Jangle for summer listening!  

Thanks so much everybody – as always, I appreciate your support!

Cheers,

Steve