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This blog isn't currently updated anymore. For all things "Stephen Steinbrink" or "French Quarter", please follow the link below:

WWW.STEPHENSTEINBRINK.TUMBLR.COM

There you will find a more vague, but infinitely more entertaining way to view my info. Sorry!

NEW BLOG, NEW BAND, NEW LIFE, ETC.

Hello!

Sorry for no update. I was on tour, and then I went deep sea fishing and now I am really really dizzy.

I started a new music/visual art project called "Yellow Canary Black Belt". Its concept is somewhat intentionally vague. I envision it as an all-inclusive drawings front, in which I will make books and other visually-based novelties, as well as a musical group of sorts, that plays "songs" that are loose in structure, encouraging improvisation within the transient member base. The project is somewhat conceptual in a sense as well, but the only parameter I've set is that there will be no guitars involved.


I have a new "Stephen Steinbrink" tape coming out on Le Horror Records in the next month, it's called "Yellow Canary Jumpsuit" and you can order it here. It is a pared down comp of the best songs from "No Sympathy", a CD-r I was selling on the last tour in May and June. Here is an MP3 sample:

Stephen Steinbrink - Deny Your Creator by lehorrorrecords



I will still be as active and productive (if not more so) for the rest of my life!

Please follow all future endeavors at www.stephensteinbrink.tumblr.com

"LIVE AT THE SANDLOT" DVD-R

I live in the United States first sanctioned police state. I am so angry and scared about SB1070 and the fact that it actually passed is just completely beyond me. I have the Arizona state flag tattooed on my left forearm, and I've never wanted to cut of the 4"x3" thing off my body more than now. 

PRE-ORDER "IT'S NOT JUST KISSING"

PRE-ORDER THE ALBUM HERE
"So, the French Quarter got "back together" and made a "follow-up" to the self-titled debut album released by Gilgongo Records in 2008. In the downtime between the 8 national tours French Quarter has embarked on since that time, (and after releasing a "solo" record Ugly Unknowns) Stephen Steinbrink wrote and recorded "It's Not Just Kissing", a collection of 15 new pop songs, culled from several tour-exclusive cd-r's and one VHS tape.

"It's Not Just Kissing" finds Stephen with an even more adept control over the pop form, blending electronic elements and rhythms that dramatically  expand on the quiet, nylon-stringed intimacy and melodic freedom that has coupled his most common live performance. Lyrically, this album is a reflection of Steinbrink's life on tour, his life at home, not wanting to die and not wanting to grow up in child-like earnestness. Emotionally sincere, ever-urgent and plaintively sad, this album is released to coincide with a national tour (with a full band backing) with Married In Berdichev! of Denver, CO. Co-released by Gilgongo Records, Life's Blood, and No More Second Chances."

"It's Not Just Kissing" Track List w/ MP3 samples:

01. You Are Dead
02. My Cocoon
03. A Set Of Hours
04. A Tiny Seed
05. Neighbors In The Bedroom
06. It's Not Just Kissing
07. Don't You?
08. Bold With Fire Pt. 2
09. No More Night Driving
10. Growing Up Is Easy
11. The Cops
12. Where I'm From
13. I Really Want To Be Your Friend
14. Warning (by Bri White)
15. Wet Cloud