the matthew show: Home

Okay, so it may be that you went to the website after reading my recent post, clicked on the little doober, started listening, and then after a minute or so began channeling Fred Willard: "Wha happen?"

Yes, I put edited clips on there for a variety of technical reasons I shan't go into here. But by popular demand, great boisterous clamor even, I've stuck four tracks up in their entirety at what is in my opinion the best music site on the interwebs, Virb:

http://www.virb.com/thematthewshow

Right now the durn thing is done on my end and is on the way to Wampus for pressing and suchlike. I'll keep you posted on all postables as I find them postworthy.

May the Fourth be with you.

A month later, and my throat has finally grown accustomed to the absence of its old rowdy friends, the tonsils. Therefore, starting on July 9th, I'll resume my Wednesday night residency at Luxor Stage, one of Second Life's premier live music destinations. It's always a good time, and everybody knows your name, because it's floating above your avatar's head.

Showtime is 6PM SLT (Pacific time). It'll be great to see everyone again. Those in the know can bring your squid hats, and those out of the know can wonder what the hell is going on.

See you at the show.

http://www.secondlife.com/

As you well know, everyone hates a liar. And for the past several months (years?) I’ve been promising to have tracks from the new album up for your listening pleasure, and then I conveniently change the subject when they don’t appear. Such behavior could easily be construed as lying, and for that I apologize. What I actually suffer from is a condition I invented just now called Circumstantial Frazzlement Disorder. Victims of this dread disease have their life’s circumstances swing in wildly disparate directions at unpredictable times, thus rendering any promises they may have made rather unreliable. Maybe if I say this often enough, I’ll start getting a check from the government.

BUT! You’ll be happy to know that the disease is not fatal, and merely results in a delay of the kept promise rather than its demise. Thus it is that if you visit, right this very moment, the Music link to the right of this message, you will notice the appearance of four—FOUR—brand new samples of tracks from the forthcoming album by the matthew show, picked with great care and without the use of child labor, apart from my son’s disapproving nods when I got a mix wrong.

So you see, I have actually been doing something all this time. And not just eating Ben & Jerry’s and playing with the kid’s rather large collection of tractors. So if you’re curious about the new stuff, go get a taste now, and in a couple of months, you’ll know what you’re getting. And if you’re a hipster, you can complain that it’s all right, but the early lo-fi stuff was better.

Okay, I’m done here. New Second Life shows to announce very soon, stay tuned...