Major Matt Mason USA

Having been given birth to and bred in the heartland of America (Kansas, to become correct), the appropriately monikered Main Matt Mason USA (aka Matt Roth) non-etheless bears few similarities towards the “heartland rockers” from the region he phone calls home. Acquiring his name from a favorite 1950s Mattel actions number, he relocated to NEW YORK in 1993 after a university profession spent with numerous math rock and roll, post-punk, and sound rock and roll combos, remaking himself like a expert of modern metropolitan folk and generating high marks for his smart and insightful songwriting. In 1999, sketching on the motivation of Daniel Johnston’s D.We.Y. strategy for documenting and liberating albums, Mason founded Olive Juice Information and started to create albums by obscure anti-folk performers from NY City’s Lower East Part. His debut, 2000’s Me Me Me, earns high marks for his exclusive songwriting and present for acoustic songcraft, sketching inspiration from writer Raymond Carver, his past associations, and his contemporaries in the anti-folk picture. Going for a break from stripped-down vocalist/songwriter fare, he and friend Nan Turner collaborated within the food-obsessed lo-fi pop of Schwervon!. By 2002, the upswing in interest generated by functions like the Moldy Peaches experienced provided the anti-folk picture its biggest drive since Beck broke through in to the mainstream, and Mason could tour European countries to enthusiastic crowds. Released the same calendar year, Call It WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE, THAT IS Antifolk captured the very best from the burgeoning picture, with Mason both collecting the shows and adding his own.