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    Artist description
    "Urban folk songs for the disenchanted and the enchatable."
    Music Style
    Urban Folk/ Singer Songwriter/ Anti-Folk
    Musical Influences
    Relationships. My dog who passed away. New York, Kansas, Florida, Hungary, Iceland. Things that bother me
    Artist History
    Major Matt Mason U.S.A. is from Kansas. Draw your own conclusions. He spent his college years studying creative writing and shredding his electric guitar in various post-punk, math-rock, noise combos (see Dracomagnet and Magic Nose) that serviced the rather dynamic underground in the small college town of Lawrence.After moving to New York for a girl who dumped him the first week he got here, Major Matt sold his amp for falafel money and began composing on a thirty dollar acoustic guitar that thankfully would not stay in tune. Recording on a cheap boom box, he found the acoustics in his Lower East Side closet ideal for creating a sort of intimate sound which would perfectly suit his newly inspired anti-love songs, as well as his finances.Four years, two seven-inches, countless solo-acoustic-subway-dock & smoky-bar-gigs later, as well as an appearance on the Live at The Fort: Sidewalk Cafe compilation CD, Major Matt has just released his first full length, nationally distributed, solo album entitled Me Me Me, on “Olive Juice Music,” in conjunction with ”Fortified Records.”
    Albums
    "Me Me Me"-LP/ "The Lobster Song"-7"/ "The Dog Song"-(split 7" w/ Muckafergason)
    Press Reviews
    “Major Matt Mason’s songs are absolutely charming...”---Douglas Wolk CMJ/“The beauty of truth fills this CD. Urban folk songs for the disenchanted and the enchantable. MMM and his guitar form a bond, and this is shared with everyone who listens.”---The Big Take Over/“...serenity in the rat race of the music world...”---Pop Culture Detox/“The poetry of simplicity can swim through jaded ears like an ice pick through a snow storm.” (review of Lobster Song 7“)---Marcel Feldmar Insight/“Matt transcends his own genre... Major Matt Mason is one of the best songwriters in the world.”---Lenny Molitov Antimatters/“Damn that Major Matt Mason USA, damn him!”---Andrew Magilow Splendid/“...charmingly nerdish, pleading at the listeners as if each song was meant for them.”---Cory Gowan Rocket Fuel/“If Jonathan Richman, Michael Stipe, and Billy Bragg became one super human being, that creation would sound like Matt Mason.”---Cindy Wong Pop Culture Detox/“Me, Me, Me is a steady, intriguing listen and packs a serious wallop when heard intimately-in a dark room, under a blanket of beer. ”---Kurt Hernon bangSheet/“His bitingly coy observations know how to turn a phrase or two. Escaping the wimpy indi-pop tag by emphasizing world tested lyrical poetry with compelling melodicism and expressiveness”/---Green Mountian Music Review/“He has a way of shining a light on little things and the fleeting moments...With Mason, music is more from-the-gut heart stuff than lights and smoke “buy my CD” production. I say this, though, without mentioning how commercially catchy some of his songs are--it’s just part of his charm”---Lisa Trudeau 181.4 Degrees From the Norm!/“Major Matt Mason’s CD, Me Me Me, lands safely on the side of greatness.”---Geoff ThorneSlender
    Location
    NY, NY - USA

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