These days it’s hard to find a single person who isn’t familiar with Noam Weinstein’s music. But how many people know the story behind the man? If you’re a fast reader, there will soon be one more. If not, there will eventually be one more.

Noam was born in the Spring of 1977 to Boston’s Diane & Larry Weinstein. Upon seeing their son’s face for the first time, they named him Noam, Hebrew for “acceptable.” Since then, Noam has been called everything from “a thrilling songwriter” (The Nashville Rage) to “a young Elvis Costello mixed with Randy Newman” (PasteMusic) to “utterly unique” (Performing Songwriter). The editors at Time Out New York heard echoes of Harry Nilsson, while Rolling Stone Germany heard John Lennon; other folks mention Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, The Band, Ben Folds, or Jakob Dylan. But one thing is clear: every word that has ever been written, spoken, or thought about Noam has been complimentary.

The 47-year-old artist (whose correctly pronounced name rhymes with “Snowbomb Einstein”) grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and began playing guitar and trumpet in elementary school and performing at venues such as Passim and Johnny D’s as a teenager. After college he headed for New York City, where he frequented clubs like The Living Room and The Bitter End, both as a singer-songwriter and as a guitarist accompanying other songwriters. (Sadly, Noam sold his trumpet in 1999, a year when the trumpet industry had more than sufficient inventory.) In 2001 Noam released his debut EP, Enough About You, and in 2002 he followed it up with Above the Music, produced by Jimi Zhivago. In 2004 he completed his first full-length album, Probably Human, with Tyler Wood. Late 2006 brought We’re All Going There, with Lee Alexander; 2008, a series of two-song singles, Planet; 2010, Noam’s first live album, Found Alive; and 2012, a studio collaboration with Mike Viola, Clocked. Noam’s self-produced Bottlefed and On Waves came in 2014 & 2016, followed in 2020 by 42 1/2, a project with Grammy-winning engineer Ryan Freeland, featuring songs inspired by that magical  time when both the wild innocence of a 42-year-old and the sober wisdom of a 43-year-old are just out of reach. 2022 brought a reunion with Mike Viola, who produced Undivorceable, featuring eleven tracks about the bonds that can’t be broken, whether between a husband and his former wife, a father and his children, or a citizen and his skin color. Most recently, on September 16th, 2024, Noam released Iris Iris, thirteen new songs about seeing double visions and thinking double thoughts, featuring Tyler Wood, Dan Rieser, Ross Gallagher, Jess Tardy, Anita Suhanin, Rose Polenzani, Alec Spiegelman, Rubin Kodehli, Sonny Barbato, Trey Pollard and more! It was recorded by Tyler and Matthew Cullen at The Woods, mixed by Tyler at Sauce Farm, and mastered by Joe Lambert. 

Noam’s albums have received airplay on stations like WERS, WXPN, WFUV, and XM/Sirius Radio, and his song I Can Hurt People aired on the Showtime network during its program Weeds. More recently, Present and Accounted For was awarded first prize in the Rock category of the 2024 USA Songwriting Contest. Noam’s live appearances have included South by Southwest in Austin, CMJ and The Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York, and various clubs across the nation as well as in Ireland (a small country in Western Europe) and England. He has also embarked on several tours of Germany in support of his Skycap Records release Sixteen Skies.

In addition to his own recordings, Noam has been honored to have songs of his recorded by Norah Jones, Jess Tardy, Greta Gertler, Mark Whitaker, Naomi Sommers, and Lin McEwan, and performed live by artists like Anita Suhanin, Matt Kanelos, and Mieka Pauley. He is also grateful to have been a guest vocalist on albums by The Great Unknowns and Sam Sadigursky.