{"id":22615,"date":"2023-07-05T11:51:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T11:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=22615"},"modified":"2023-07-05T11:52:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T11:52:04","slug":"steve-conte-unveils-brand-new-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=22615","title":{"rendered":"Steve Conte unveils brand new video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Steve Conte - Fourth Of July (Official HD Video)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G6PB0I5jkLg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New York City guitarist, singer &amp; songwriter Steve Conte has released a video for his new single, co-written with Andy Partridge (XTC) titled &#8220;Fourth of July.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The song &amp; video serve as a follow-up to his 2021 acclaimed solo album Bronx Cheer, and offers an early preview of his upcoming new LP due out in 2024 via Steven Van Zandt&#8217;s Wicked Cool Records.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Steve says:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u201cFourth of July\u201d was written with one of my favorite songwriters of all time, from one of my fave bands &#8211; Andy Partridge of XTC. I feel blessed to be writing with one of my heroes\u2026and to be recording for Little Steven Van Zandt\u2019s label, Wicked Cool Records,&#8221; says Conte.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;With a title like \u201cFourth of July\u201d I knew I didn\u2019t want to make this song lyric at all patriotic American or about Independence Day &#8211; I wanted it to be about the sparks that fly, the fireworks that go off in a relationship. One with intense chemistry\u2026love, fulfillment \u2026bombs bursting in air, ya know? Explosions, yes &#8211; but no stars &amp; stripes.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>The chorus of the song is one that I\u2019ve had kicking around since the 90s. I wrote the hook while getting ready to leave my NYC apartment for some July 4th event &#8211; I just started singing about what was happening that day. The hook was all there; chords, melody, the title lyric, the phrasing &#8211; complete with that odd timing. I thought it could be something special because I never forgot it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buy <a href=\"https:\/\/orcd.co\/FOURTHOFJULY\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/orcd.co\/FOURTHOFJULY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City guitarist, singer &amp; songwriter Steve Conte has released a video for his new single, co-written with Andy Partridge (XTC) titled &#8220;Fourth of July.&#8221; The song &amp; video serve as a follow-up to his 2021 acclaimed solo album Bronx Cheer, and offers an early preview of his upcoming new LP due out in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,265,824,1212],"class_list":["post-22615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-michael-monroe","tag-rich-jones","tag-steve-conte","tag-xtc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22617,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22615\/revisions\/22617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}