NEWS - February 2008
"New Challenges" newcomer competition
You have taken great effort to support Steven last year already, but now we need your help again!
Steven and eleven other Bands have been elected from a total
of almost 600 applications to take part in the nationwide "New Challenges"-competition
hosted by the music-website regioactive.
de. Regioactive's users now get the chance to vote for their favourite artist
and decide which contestant will be awarded with a one-year-long management-
and bookingdeal. There will also be a promotional showcase in Munich for the
winning band. We would love to take our chance in this competition, but we need
your help with this one. Simply click on the button below to support us with
your vote:
You have to register in order to be allowed to vote, but you
will also take part in an iPod nano prize competition.
Be sure to put in your vote until February, 29th.
London's Call at regioactive.de
The song "London's Call" has been chosen by the team of the musicscene-website regioactive.de to be featured in their webnews. Steven's music will be presented on regioactive's starting page as well as their podcast in January.
News - January 2008
Fuldaer news article
We'd like to thank journalist Jutta Koch for her neat article about Steven's music in today's (01/24/08) edition of the "Fuldaer Zeitung". Take a look at the little feature right here. Further Information can be found at the Fuldaer Zeitung
Unplugged gigs, photos & more
Steven started an exciting unplugged live-set this month which has already proven it's musical quality at the Nachtsalon in Marburg. Thanks to all you people for comming to our show and going wild. Some pictures to the show can be found here. Furthermore, Steven will play to more private shows in January and has applied for two newcomer-awards. Be sure to check back frequently to stay up to date.
NEWS - November 2007
Huge success at Radio Siegen
Thanks to your support Steven's Song "London's Call" was voted to 4th place of the Radio Siegen Charts! We thank everyone that took the time to vote for us and place Steven above Herbert Groenemeyer, Britney Spears and Linkin Park - we really appreciate it!
Still there's way to go: We want to see Steven on top of the Radio Siegen Charts!
So please keep voting for him within the next weeks. To do so simply click here.
NEWS - October 2007
Radio chart placement
The title "London's Call" was chosen as a new entry for the Radio Siegen listener charts last Saturday. Now it's up to you, our fans, to vote for STeven Merson and decide on his chart position.simply click here to vote! We count on your help!
Steven and Jules were invited to the Radio Siegen studio in downtown Siegen to promote the song and give a live interview. The interview with host Jan Reppahn will be available on this site soon.
International distribution with iTunes
Both Steven Merson records are now downloadable at iTunes worldwide. As usual individual songs can be purchased apart from entire albums. Besides iTunes Steven'S music is now available at several other online distributors such as Napster, MSN Music or Best Buy.
Furthermore, Steven's two albums still can be ordered at cdbaby.com. Simply click on the shop button on the top right of this page to find the complete links to cdbaby. In fact, we just sold two CDs to a listener in San Francisco and a mp3-album to a customer in London.
NEWS - September 2007
New Album out now!
We invested 8 months total production time, 30 recording days,
15 days for the mix, more than 120 GB of data, several cholesterine shocks due
to the food at the Nikolaus-Grill
and a 4-digit sum of euros in producing Steven's new album Clearing my head.
Thanks a lot to everyone that helped us on the way and to all of you that have
been expecting the new CD for quite a while!
The Album can now be ordered with our new online store. Unfortunately though
we can only supply this service to German customers. We encourage all international
customers to order the CD via cdbaby.com
or itunes which will be available soon. Make sure to come back soon for direct
links to those distributors.
Enough talking - enjoy Steven's new songs and order your copy now!
NEWS - July 2007
Mittwochs in - retrospective
Thanks to everyone that supported Steven in Siegen. It was a fabulous experience for all of us. Pictures of the gig will be posted on this site soon - check them out, maybe you find yourself on one of the photos. During the voting period we had the chance to visit Radio Siegen twice and give an interview for their listeners. Thanks a lot to Tobias Stein & Radio Siegen for their support. Click here to see a picture of us at the studio
NEWS - June 2007
Steven Merson @ Radio Siegen
Radio
Siegen has nominated Steven Merson to take part in the „Mittwochs-In-Siegen“
Live-Gig competition. Only nine contestants remain and only three of them will
have the opportunity to play this live gig at the Schlossplatz. Steven will
be featured with our new song Summer on the morning show of the station
this wednesday, the 6th of June. There will be an online voting, also starting
on the 6th of June, that will decide which three bands will win to play the
concert. You can vote for Steven on the website www.mittwochsinsiegen.de
until June 14th and put him on the top three of the competiton.
Now it is up to you to vote for him and his featured song until your fingers
bleed, if you want him to rock that stage.
We need your support on this one, so please give us your vote! Hope to see you
all on the 20th of June. Thank you very much for your support!!!
New Songs Online
You can get an early glance at STeven's upcoming album with the new audio player to the left of this page. We have added samples of the song summer and the big unknown. If you'd like to hear more, we need you to wait a little bit longer, but you can enregister for the CD in advance with a mail to info@stevenmerson.com and we will contact you when it is ready to ship.
In Stevens Player auf der linken gibt es ab sofort einen ersten Vorgeschmack auf das kommende Album. Dort findet ihr Ausschnitte der Songs Summer und The Big Unknown. Wer mehr hören will, muss sich leider noch etwas gedulden. Ihr könnt euch aber per e-mail an info@stevenmerson.com für die CD vormerken lassen.
Name of the Album chosen
The name of the upcoming album has been chosen: CLEARING
MY HEAD
The CD will be release at the end of June 2007 and features 12 fresh songs.
Those who have been to one of Steven's gigs will be sure to recognized some
of the great songs that he played live. Everyone can look forward to a very
varied, colourful and intense album that kicks ass.
NEWS - May 2007
Steven now calls himself Steven Merson after his mother's name. We are currently working with Stefan Heppenheimer on the cover layout of the upcoming album. The layout of this website will also change so it matches the CD, which is the reason why you might discover some flaws or why the site might be temporarily unavailable. The new domain of Steven's homepage is www.stevenmerson.com
We have completed the recording process to Steven's new album. The songs are currently being mixed by Julian David and will be mastered by Alex Kloss. There will be a photo session with the entire band to get pictures for the booklet this thursday.
NEWS - March 2007
We are back though we were never really gone! Steven has been
in the recording studio since January and is producing his second LP. The CD
is going to be out in June 2007. Pictures of the recording sessions in Düsseldorf
are coming soon. There will also be a small live tour this summer and we are
currently looking for locations in Germany. Further information about the CD
and the tour will be posted here or via newsletter.
By the way: The lyrics to most of Steven's songs are now available in the "lyrics"-section!
NEWS - November 2006
We will close our Seven Seasons - Tour with concerts in Marburg and Düsseldorf:
12/13/2006 - 8 pm - Waggonhalle, Marburg - Support: Tsega
For more information and tickets: Waggonhalle
01/17/2007 - 8 pm - people. clubbar Düsseldorf - Support: tba
For more information please click here
Breaking News:
Both the video of Steven's new song "There" and the mp3 of the second new song "Extremes" are now online. Check them out at the music section.
NEWS - October 2006
After a short absence we're back with some news:
Tourdate:
Steven will be performing for FREE at the Caffè,
Düsseldorf on Friday, the 13th. The concert starts with Steven around 8.30pm
and continues with Maycorn,
a rock band from the south of Germany.
New Media:
Our concert at the Institute for Music and Media was recorded with three video
cameras. A new song and a video will be online by the end of this week. So make
sure to check this site regularly.
NEWS - July 2006
Photo-gallery online!
The Photo area has been updated with some shots of Steven. Photos of the band
and live impressions will be online soon.
NEWS - June 2006
Steven Schloemer Live Tour started!
The first concert will be on July, 6th, 8pm at the Waggonhalle
Marburg. For more infos and tickets:
waggonhalle.de
Steven will also be playing at the presentation of the new
video truck of the Institute for Music and Media in Düsseldorf.
For Further Details: musikundmedien.net
NEWS - May 2006
We are currently looking for locations where we can play some
live gigs around June and July.
NEWS - April 2006
The new CD "Seven Seasons" has now been released
and can be ordered. Click here to
listen to samples and buy the cd!
NEWS - March 2006
A temporary version of the homepage is now online and we have setup an e-mail newsletter. Click here to sign up!