Melodic, literate, quirky, guitar-based indie pop, informed by the likes of weezer, The Beatles, and The Decemberists.

7 MP3 Songs
POP: Beatles-pop, POP: Quirky



Details:
Born into a family of Chechnyan goat farmers and orphaned at an early age by a tragic encounter with a marauding pack of feral dogs, Steve Goldberg was soon taken in by a kind-hearted band of gypsies with an unabiding love for 60s guitar pop. Reared on a steady diet of The Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel, young Steve soon stowed away on a cargo freighter and braved the treacherous journey across the ocean to Philadelphia. He worked odd jobs at the docks there, biding his time until he could afford an instrument of his own. When that glorious day finally arrived, he bade farewell to manual labor and began making his bread as a travelling troubador, performing the songs of his youth for indifferent bar patrons. In a short while Steve began to spin yarns of his own creation: whimsical tales of lost love, frustrated penguins, and brave knights-errant. But after finding himself framed for murder as part of a nefarious plot hatched by a local bookie as payback for an old debt, Steve was forced to flee America or face capture. His travels have brought him to London, where he has begun a new musical odyssey.

Preston the Penguin | To Jane Gallagher | Historiography | Hindsight
Guitars, vocals: Steve Goldberg
Drums: Jordan Bross
Bass: Eric Eden
Engineered by Eric Eden
Produced by Eric Eden, Fumiya Yamamoto, and Steve Goldberg

Crestfallen
Acoustic guitar, vocals: Steve Goldberg
Electric guitar: Jon Kaufman
Drums: Travis Schermer
Bass: Jeff Saretsky
Trumpet: Russell Scharf
Engineered by Harold Walls
Produced by Harold Walls, Fumiya Yamamoto, and Steve Goldberg

The Battle of Agincourt
Guitars, vocals, glockenspiel: Steve Goldberg
Produced by Steve Goldberg and Fumiya Yamamoto

The Book of Love
Guitar, vocals: Steve Goldberg
Produced by Steve Goldberg

All words and music by Steve Goldberg, except The Book of Love by Stephen Merritt

Design by Andrew D. Babb