Joe Steinhardt | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Joseph Steinhardt |
| Born | June 6, 1984 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Origin | New Brunswick, New Jersey |
| Genres | Punk rock, Indie Rock, Alternative rock |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, musician, record producer, author |
| Instrument | Guitar |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Labels | Don Giovanni |
Joe Steinhardt (born June 6, 1984), is an American singer, musician, record producer, and author, best known as the co-founder of Don Giovanni Records.
In the late 1990s, Steinhardt began to attend punk rock shows in and around New Brunswick, New Jersey.
In 2002, with his friend Zach Gajewski, he founded Don Giovanni Records which played an instrumental role in launching the careers of artists like Mitski, Waxahatchee, Screaming Females, Laura Stevenson, Moor Mother and Irreversible Entanglements. [1] [2] [3] [4]
In 2016, Steinhardt launched the New Alternative Music Festival. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Steinhardt has been a vocal critic of streaming music [9] and published his first book Why to Resist Streaming Music & How through Microcosm Publishing.
In 2024 Steinhardt released a graphic novel Merriment with Marissa Paternoster. [10] [11]
Steinhardt received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2015 and is currently an assistant professor of Music Business at Drexel University. [12] [13]
Don Giovanni Records is an independent record label originally specializing in punk rock from the New Brunswick, New Jersey music scene but eventually working with a variety of artists from different genres. Its also operated out of Lansing, Michigan.
Screaming Females were an American rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey comprising Marissa Paternoster on vocals and guitar, Jarrett Dougherty on drums, and Mike Abbate on bass. They released their debut album Baby Teeth in 2006. The band were featured on NPR, Last Call with Carson Daly, and MTV. They played with bands such as Garbage, Throwing Muses, Dinosaur Jr., The Dead Weather, Arctic Monkeys, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists and The Breeders.
Mal Blum is an American songwriter, musician, writer and performer from New York. Blum has released six full-length albums, most recently Pity Boy in 2019.
Power Move is the third studio album by Screaming Females, released by Don Giovanni Records on April 4, 2009. It was their first on Don Giovanni Records and their first not to be self-released.
What If Someone Is Watching Their T.V.? is the second studio album by Screaming Females. Originally self-released in 2007, it was re-released on Don Giovanni Records in 2009 and later re-released again on October 4, 2011, this time on vinyl.
Castle Talk is the fourth studio album by Screaming Females, released on September 4, 2010 by Don Giovanni Records.
Marissa Paternoster is an American artist, singer and guitarist active in New Jersey's New Brunswick music scene. She is the former lead singer and guitarist of the band Screaming Females, and continues to perform in the solo project Noun.
Ugly is the fifth studio album by Screaming Females, released on April 3, 2012, by Don Giovanni Records. The record was self produced by the band and engineered by Steve Albini in his studio Electrical Audio. The group embarked on a national tour to support the album on April 7, 2012.
Waxahatchee is an American indie music project, formed in 2010 by American singer-songwriter Kathryn Crutchfield, known professionally as Katie Crutchfield, following the breakup of her previous band P.S. Eliot. The band is named after Waxahatchee Creek, in Alabama, where Crutchfield grew up. Originally an acoustic solo project, her recordings now tend to involve a full backing band. As Waxahatchee, she has released six solo studio albums to date: American Weekend (2012), Cerulean Salt (2013), Ivy Tripp (2015), Out in the Storm (2017), Saint Cloud (2020) and Tigers Blood (2024). Away from Waxahatchee, Crutchfield was also a member of alternative country duo Plains alongside Jess Williamson.
Noun is the solo musical project of Screaming Females lead guitar player Marissa Paternoster. Paternoster started recording as Noun in 2004 and had a track featured on the I Heard This First CD compilation, her first release was a 2009 self-released cassette called Forgotten Grin compiling 5 years' worth of material, reissued on Don Giovanni Records in 2013. Noun's first full-length, Holy Hell was released in 2010 by Don Giovanni Records.
Holy Hell is the debut album from Noun, the solo project of Marissa Paternoster of Screaming Females. The album was released by Don Giovanni Records in 2010.
Cerulean Salt is the second studio album by American indie musician Waxahatchee, released on March 5, 2013, on Don Giovanni Records. Co-produced by Swearin' members, Kyle Gilbride and Keith Spencer, the album was recorded in primary recording artist Katie Crutchfield's basement.
Kevin Robert Morby is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. A former member of Woods and The Babies, Morby has released seven solo studio albums: Harlem River (2013), Still Life (2014), Singing Saw (2016), City Music (2017), Oh My God (2019), Sundowner (2020), and This Is a Photograph (2022).
P.S. Eliot was an American pop punk band formed in 2007 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, by twin sisters Katie and Allison Crutchfield (drums). They released two albums: Introverted Romance in Our Troubled Minds (2009) and Sadie (2011), both on Salinas Records. After the band broke up in 2011, both members pursued their own musical projects: Katie started Waxahatchee and Allison started Swearin'. The band reunited in June 2016 for a tour, which took place the following September.
Rose Mountain is the sixth studio album by Screaming Females, released on February 24, 2015, by Don Giovanni Records.
Mitsuki Miyawaki, known professionally as Mitski, is an American singer and songwriter. She self-released her first two albums, Lush (2012), and Retired from Sad, New Career in Business (2013), while studying studio composition at Purchase College's Conservatory of Music. The albums were originally made as her senior project. Her third studio album, Bury Me at Makeout Creek, was released in 2014 on the label Double Double Whammy.
All at Once is the seventh studio album by American indie rock band Screaming Females, released on February 23, 2018, by Don Giovanni Records. It was produced by the band and Matt Bayles.
Johanna Warren is an American musician, actor and filmmaker, now based in Wales.
"Working for the Knife" is a song by American singer-songwriter Mitski. It was released on October 5, 2021, through Dead Oceans, making it her first major release since her hiatus following the release of her 2018 studio album Be the Cowboy, and her subsequent tour in 2019. Written by Mitski and produced by her longtime collaborator Patrick Hyland, it is a dark, midtempo rock, and electro-industrial song led by synths and percussion. Lyrically, it revolves around "the knife", a metaphor for the expectations placed on Mitski to continue laboring over her music.