Stephen Bluhm profile picture

Stephen Bluhm

PROUDLY PRESENTED

About Me

Hello. Welcome. I wrote and recorded the songs above in my bedroom sometime between 2004 and the present. With new equipment, training, and practice my newest recordings are sounding a lot better.I am currently assembling a new and improved album at little or no extra cost to you, the consumer.I am also producing and recording Kiss Kiss Kill, a pop-oriented, female-harmonizing bunch of drama queens.Ta da!!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/29/2004
Band Members: everything written and executed by yours truly with kind contributions from Rich Stone on bass clarinet and saxaphone
Influences: Morrissey, Smiths, SCOTT WALKER, Siouxsie Sioux, The Cure, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Erasure, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Orchestral Maneouvres in the Dark with a capital OMD, Silver Apples, Shirelles, The Brill Building, David Bowie, Patti Smith, Television, REM, Psychedelic Furs, Bauhaus, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, John Cale, Nico, Tim Hardin, Ramones, Zombies, Sparks, Jeff Buckley, Big Star, Bebop Deluxe, Rufus Wainwright, Suicide, New York Dolls, Stooges, Iggy Pop, Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd., Elvis, Elvis Costello, BURT BACHARACH, Serge Gainsbourg, Magnetic Fields, Kate Bush, CAN, Dexy's Midnight Runners, Gary Numan, Marc Bolan, Visage, Cluster, Neu!, Kraftwerk, Klaus Nomi, COLE PORTER, Giorgio Moroder, IRVING BERLIN, Geneva Jacuzzi, Stephen Sondheim, Telex, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Depeche Mode, Phil Spector, The Ronettes, Ray Price, BEACH BOYS, Bing Crosby, Jo Stafford, Patrick Cowley, Ariel Pink, Bee Gees, Kurt Weill
Sounds Like: "one-man electro-lounge crooner/storyteller.... whose debut song cycle: Amelia Earhart CD is the best synth-debut out of Philly since VIP." - A.D. Amorosi for the Philadelphia City Paper
Record Label: unsigned but eligible
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Sherman Arts Top Twenty

Rich Wexler of Sherman Arts just posted a list of his favorite local and out of town acts that he's booked.  I'm proud to be on the list.  I've done Sherman Arts shows at the Balcony, Rotund...
Posted by Stephen Bluhm on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 08:35:00 PST

Christmas Albums

Sorry, Bing, but you ain't the only Christmas crooner on the ol hi-fi this year.  Sharing the limelight are James Brown and the many artists of the Philles label as well as the Fantasy Mirrors/Ca...
Posted by Stephen Bluhm on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:52:00 PST

On Princeton Radio

DJ Lizbot will be playing songs off of Amelia Earhart on her Princeton Radio show today from 4 to 6 and on her shows thereafter.  If you're in reach you can tune in at 103.3.  If you're else...
Posted by Stephen Bluhm on Thu, 17 May 2007 01:12:00 PST

Song Cycle: Amelia Eahart

I've started selling my first album in quite a while.  It's a CDR of 6 songs, about 21 minutes long.  1. Amelia Eahart2. Friday Night Lights3. City4. Clothes5. God Bless Our Boys6. Look at A...
Posted by Stephen Bluhm on Tue, 08 May 2007 04:21:00 PST

Nice Weather Albums

the time has come again for warm weather, and with it, what to listen to?  i've made a short list of albums which, for me, have that certain feel that goes so well with a sunny, mild day.Kinks- T...
Posted by Stephen Bluhm on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:57:00 PST

The Sherman Arts Podcast

I'll be on the Sherman Arts Podcast which debuts March 1st.  See www.myspace.com/shermanarts for the info.
Posted by Stephen Bluhm on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 01:57:00 PST

Tidbit About God Bless Our Boys

After a set in which I opened with this song someone asked me about its meaning and I didn't realize later that he was probably wondering about the political content.  Really, it's not supposed t...
Posted by Stephen Bluhm on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 08:35:00 PST

On the Radio in Canada

Some fine fellows from Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada asked me if they could put my songs on their radio shows.  I sent them some songs in the mail and they will be mixed somewhere in the playlis...
Posted by Stephen Bluhm on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:43:00 PST

About Clothes

This song was a way of expressing my insecurities about being simultaneously so tall and so thin as well as having scars on my torso from operations for collapsed lungs and the fact that my lungs coll...
Posted by Stephen Bluhm on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 11:01:00 PST

About Friday Night Lights

I made Friday Night Lights for my friend Dina Khouri's Bollywood style movie entitled Disco Rain.  I have a separate myspace for those songs but I feel particularly proud of this one and would ho...
Posted by Stephen Bluhm on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:46:00 PST