Trauma. Addiction. Heartache. Depression. Recovery. Sobriety.
Make no bones about it. Mark Steiner sure doesn’t.

The fact that this once decadent Norwegian-American ruffian has been clean and sober since April 2021 has, almost ironically, resulted in the successful development of this new album, Black Hole.

This is Steiner’s first full-length release since the album Saudade was first launched back in November, 2014, and features legendary drummer Ted Parsons (Prong, ex-Swans, Killing Joke, Jesu, Metallic Taste of Blood, Keith Levine), bassist Leon Muraglia (Radio 9, Salvatore) and guitarist Romek Paluch-Edwards, along with additional special guests, including Norwegian singers Ingunn Holmen and Line Saus, Czech violinist Pavel Cingl, and long-term Danish wingman Thomas Borge.

Black Hole, both as a song and as an album title, is a journey where intersecting dark, psychically tortured souls have clambered up from the abyss into a bizzare post-pandemic world riddled with struggle. 

These mastered tracks, produced and mixed by Leon Muraglia and Mark Steiner, have just experienced a final transformation in the hands of mastering magician Nick Terry.

Where these songs end up before they inevitably hit the global market is anybody’s guess at the moment, but for now you are presented with the opportunity to give them all a listen…

Black Hole

Float

What a difference serenity makes to composing music... 

Radio Raro (We Will Be Just Fine)

Original air date ~ 31st October 2024.

We talk to Parquet Courts ace A. Savage ahead of his Australian tour in support of last year's solo album, the scorching "Several Songs About Fire".

Stream the full program https://2ser.com/episodes/static-800pm-31st-oct-2024/

2SER-FM's "Static" playlist for Thursday 31st October was as follows ...

CLUTTER "Jesus" (PNKSLM)
AMYL & THE SNIFFERS "Doing In Me Head" (B2B/Virgin)
SOCCER MOMMY "Abigail" (Loma Vista)
UNDERWORLD "Techno Shinkansen" (Smith Hyde Productions/Virgin)
SHOWER CURTAIN "take me home" (Fire Talk)
HUMDRUM "Underneath The Sky" (Slumberland)
A. SAVAGE "I Can't Shake The Stranger Out Of You" (Rough Trade/Remote Control)
NAKED ROOMMATE "Yob" (Trouble In Mind)
TREES SPEAK "TimeFold" (Soul Jazz)
NORTH ARM "Stay Young" (Broken Stone)
EMMA ANDERSON "Clusters" [LONELADY Remix] (Sonic Cathedral)
PIXIES "Jane (The Night The Zombies Came)" (BMG)
DJ SEINFELD "Hopecore" (Ninja Tune)
ELIAS RØNNENFELT "Sound Of Confusion" (Escho)
GEOFFREY O'CONNOR "I Love What We Do" (Dinosaur City)
POP FILTER "All Night" (Osborne Again)
1-800-MIKEY "Digital Pet" (Under The Gun/Erste Theke Tontraeger)
ZEMENT "Move/Procession" (Crazysane)
CHRISTOPHER OWENS "So" (True Panther)
TUNDE ADEBIMPE "Magnetic" (Sub Pop)
KARATE "Bleach The Scene" (Numero Group)
AMYL & THE SNIFFERS "Bailing On Me" (B2B/Virgin)
MOGWAI "Lion Rumpus" (Rock Action)

"Static" can be heard on 2SER (107.3FM) on Thursdays between 8pm and 10pm.
Or stream live online at www.2ser.com
Past episodes can be streamed on-demand at https://2ser.com/episode-archive-page/?show=static

A. Savage ~ Interviewed on 2SER's Static

People Are Beautiful

Faded Polaroids

For The Best

Whenever You're In Doubt

Unusually for me it is a Love song. I very, very rarely write love songs. I think this is the 3rd ever love song that I've written and I'm not even in Love with anyone. This is a song about the FEELING of 'Being in Love'. The memory of how it makes you feel. It contains a real memory too. It has a chorus to die for and every time it's been performed live people are singing it back to me. For all you Love Birds out there......it's Valentines Day again. Demo version of one of my new songs

It’s Alright Now

Volume 1

Le Grand R

If you have walked down the lost and lonely highways of life in the dead of the night....ask yourself....'Can you hear The Howling Wind?'

The Howling Wind

Ex-New Yorker Mark Steiner is a seasoned Norwegian-American international recording artist, performer and producer who relocated to Oslo, Norway in 2002. His music can be described as melancholic "swamp-noir," but with lyrics which often carry a subtle sense of humor. Mark Steiner is about to release a new album under the name Mark Steiner & His Problems along with drummer Ted Parsons (ex-Swans, Prong, Killing Joke), bassist Leon Muraglia (Radio 9, OMD), guitarist Romer Paluch-Edwards, and Norwegian chanteuse Ingunn Holmen. Special guests include Czech violinist Pavel Cingl, Norwegian singer Line Saus, and Danish wingman Thomas Borge.