Mark Steiner (musician)

Mark Steiner & His Problems
Birth name	Mark Steiner
Also known as	Piker, Piker Ryan
Genres	Post-punk
Occupation(s)	musician, songwriter, film maker
Years active	1988-present
Labels	Stagger Records (Paris), Z-Man Records (Melbourne), Plug Ugly Records (New York City), Rabben Records (Oslo)
Associated acts	Mark Steiner, Mark Steiner & His Problems, Mark Steiner & The Fallen Birds, Mark Steiner & The Debauchery, Mark Steiner & The Broken Men, Mark Steiner & The Broken Birds, Piker Ryan, Kundera, Piker Ryan's Folly, The Mirror Reveals, Madrugada, Spencer P. Jones, Loene Carmen
Website	Stagger Home Music, Stagger Records (France), Z-Man Records (Australia)
Notable instruments
Fender Jaguar Baritone Special HH guitar and Washington J-9 Semi-acoustic guitar (manufactured by Washburn Guitars)

Mark Steiner & His Problems (born Mark Steiner, 1970) is a Norwegian-American rock musician, guitarist, songwriter and producer.

In 1997, through a classified ad in The Village Voice, Steiner started a band called Piker Ryan's Folly. It gave its last performance in 2000 at CBGB, at an event intended to save a neighboring tenement building, 295 Bowery, from demolition. Afterwards Eric Wolter and Steiner started a new band called Kundera. In 2002, Steiner moved to Oslo, Norway. In 2006, he contributed a track to a tribute CD for Australian musician Rowland S. Howard. In 2007 he recorded songs in Paris and New York for a debut solo CD Fallen Birds. In 2009, a second record "Broken" was released in a two-CD edition by Z-Man Records. In late 2014, he released "Saudade" under the name "Mark Steiner & His Problems," which features both original works as well as interpretations of songs by deceased artists Billie Holiday, Lou Reed, , Robert Burås, and Rowland S. Howard. He has performed as an opening act for Michael Gira, Kid Congo Powers, Devendra Banhart, Mick Harvey, Madrugada, Norwegian singer Ingrid Olava, Rowland S. Howard, Hugo Race and others.

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