My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.” 
― Ira Glass

Steve Nieve – was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 as a member of Elvis Costello and the Attractions. 

In 2007, his opera, ‘Welcome to the Voice’ had six performances at the Chatelet Theater in Paris with Sting, Sylvia Schwartz, Elvis Costello, Anna Gabler, Joe Sumner, directed by Muriel Teodori, who wrote the book and lyrics. 

APPEARS WITH (ON STAGE AND  ON RECORDINGS)

Steve Nieve - Sting, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Madness, Squeeze, Burt Bacharach, Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Morressey, Lou Reed, Annie Clark (St. Vincent), Vanessa Paradis, Robert Wyatt, Francois Hardy, Jane Birkin, Sandy Shaw, Allen Toussaint, Paul Weller, Kirsty Maccoll, Mick Jagger, Smokey Robinson, Barbara Bonney, Laurie Anderson, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and others…..

MUSIC FOR MOVING IMAGES composed by Steve Nieve:
Desaccord Parfait  (de Caunes)
Le Passager (Caravaca)
L’Annulaire (Bertrand) 
Sans Plomb (Téodori)
Arrivederci Millwall  (McDougall)
À dix minutes des naturistes (Clavier)
L’Epervier (Clavier) 
Montechristo (Téodori) 
The Incredibly Strange Film Show (Harries)

SOLO RECORDINGS

Keyboard Jungle (1983)   
Playboy (1987)
It’s Raining Somewhere (1996) 
Mumu (2001) 
Windows (2004)
Welcome to the Voice, (2007) 
Lazy Point (2011)  
ToGetHer (2013)

ALBUMS WITH ELVIS COSTELLO + THE ATTRACTIONS +THE IMPOSTERS + AS STEVE NIEVE  PIANIST AND ARRANGER...

This Year's Model (1978) Armed Forces (1979) Get Happy!! (1980) Trust (1981)
Almost Blue (1981) Imperial Bedroom (1982) Punch the Clock (1983) Goodbye Cruel World (1984)
King of America (1986) Blood & Chocolate (1986) Brutal Youth (1994) Kojak Variety (1995)
All This Useless Beauty (1996) Painted From Memory (1998)
When I Was Cruel (2002) Cruel Smile (2003)  North (2003) The Delivery Man (2004) 
The River In Reverse (2006) Momofuku (2008) National Ransom (2010)


It's 1989 and you've taken a pill in a club; it gets too much & you wander into the chill out room & the DJ is playing a super mellow set of Radio 4 classics.

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