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Digital Deal with Dualtone Music Group!!!!!!
Holy Contractual Matrimony Batman! MATT REA$0R and the MADNE$$ just signed a deal with the best Southern Artist Oriented Record Label On Earth, DUALTONE! Holy Crap this is huge. My first introduction to the music presented by Dualtone was Jim Lauderdales’ hugely influential "Other Sessions" album, and Hayseed Dixie’s "Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC". I was reviewing alt country albums for all music guide, and frankly Dualtone knew the deep fried trend was coming by way of left of center. So it makes complete sense that the best label stuck out their paper hand and picked Nashville’s "Best Looking Golden Psychobilly Emerging Legend of Country and Punk" , none other than yours truely, Matt Reasor featuring Tucker Tamble and Barry Daniel. What does this mean wise jelly bean, you ask. Well this means "Pentecostal Pasta Salad" will now be available for digital download on all the major digital distribution services and networks like iTunes and Amazon and way way beyond..I’m talking Inter-planetary-internet man, stuff we don’t even know about yet, dude! To add a cherry to the top of the float that your granny got you for being so sweet, is that Dualtone has also picked up the High or Hellwater catalog(Matt’s old band from when he lived in California, groovy high cotton times). So be looking for "High or Hellwater", "Living the Good Lie", and "Legends and Hall of Famers" available from Dualtone records. Getting this deal is a huge homage to independent music and the lifestyle behind it. All of these projects have been self funded and promoted up to this point, to have the great honor of being in business with the leader in world of independent country music is as big as an honor as I have ever experienced. This completely rocks!

posted 8 months ago on Apr 14, 2008 | comments: 0 | read more |

Album Review in Sounding Board, Martin's in house paper
Hey go check out: http://www.martinguitar.com/news/PDF/Vol_24.pdf page 35.......

posted 8 months ago on Apr 14, 2008 | comments: 0 | read more |

Performer Magazine Album Review!
Don’t let the scattershot artwork of Pentecostal Pasta Salad fool you or the album title belie what’s on the disc. Nashville’s Matt Reasor and the Madness conjure up moody and fuzzy melodies on the album, blending Roky Erickson atmospherics and garage guitar riffing to craft a wide variety of material ranging from country to rock to even a little soul. "Get Weird" pumps with honky-tonk strut and juke joint cool, breaking midway to rave up and politely come back down. Reasor’s vocals radiate somewhere between Izzy Stradlin and Kevn Kinney and on "Apathy" Reasor recalls music from the Epitaph Records days. Burying vocals against the calamity of guitars crashing against one another works well. Reasor’s yin and yang vocals make for a larger album sensibility. "Some Stand, Smile and Wave" is gentle country meets Roky Erickson and "3 Reasons the 2 of Us Aren’t 1" is all country and perhaps the albums best song title next to "Thunder Mistlefist", a barnburner that closes the album. An excellent surprise is "Ronnie’s Looking Good", sung by Sarah Wynn. Wynn’s deep and sultry voice is hypnotic, a sexier and throatier Narah Jones and worth buying the album alone. But Pentecostal Pasta Salad is rife with surprises, from "Ronnie’s Looking Good" to the spoken work "Tuesday Night Garbage Swindle" or the John Lennon flavored lovely "I Don’t Miss Us At All", an achingly sad number that, while short, is divine. (Self-released) -Brian Tucker

posted 8 months ago on Apr 14, 2008 | comments: 0 | read more |

Real World Contest-- Reasons to vote for the Madness

Hello Mi7 Friends,

Please take the time to review the following list of reasons why my 3 piece band, Matt Reasor and the Madness, should have the great honor of recieving your vote of approval for the Real World Studio contest package.

1. We are a small band and won't take up as much space travelling from Nashville, Tennessee to Bath, England.

2. We are one takers. We rarely need more than three runs of a song, and that is usually a gear thing. One take recording, ah the good ol dayzs.

3. We are not felons, nor do any of us have outstanding criminal records. For now.

4. If we win this contest, then we will have a European tour planned in tandem. So This contest would essentially make a Northern European tour tangible for my band. The other alternative is to wait three years when we have enough dough and the Euro mellows out. All other travel is managable.

5. 2 out of 3 of us are single so that means diversity in Englands gene pool!

6. I love Peter Gabriels' music more than ice cream, no shit I really do. Granted, I'm slightly lactose intolerant, but still I truely do love his music endlessly,  as well as all of the great artists I have discovered from the Real World label catalogue.

7. Bath has the best flea market in the western hemosphere. I went to the antique market in Bath with my mother when I was 13. I still have a sincerely badass leather jacket with spike job that I got for 25 pounds. It was straight up Judas Priest !

8. We will behave ourselves. Come on our bass player is a high school history teacher for crying out loud!!!

9.  Tucker, the drummer, has the lyrics to "Blood of Eden" tattooed on his stomach. and "Big Time" on this inner thigh....

10. The final reason you should vote for Matt Reasor and the Madness to win the Real World recording contest................you will be helping defeat Bush with a passive answer to a violent reaction.

Sincerely and truely,

Matt Reasor and the Madness

 

***see the songs to vote for on our mi7.com site***

You Shook Me

Some, Stand, Smile and Wave

Apathy 

posted about 1 year ago on Aug 05, 2007 | comments: 1 | read more |

New Album

 

I've just wrapped up a new record in Nashville with my homegrown hometown band, Matt Reasor and the Madness. The album is called Pentecostal Pasta Salad and it' s the first time I have ever fronted a band, yes the shadow has been lifted for a second :)

All recording of PPS was live, single take, and no more than three takes were attempted in a sitting. With that said, we treat the computer as people would treat a tape machine. A relatively limited resource.Pre production is placed on a much higher plateau as a creative boot camp (yikes), than the dreaded turd buffing period of 'let's fix it in the mix' philosophical mind set. ..

 I do strongly love computer recording, but I feel a lot of soul is scooped out in over comping.  For a good example of this please reference the drastic drop in content versus production value in American 'country' music in the last twenty years, aw hell throw soul and R&B in there too.

To whomever is interested, please listen, distribute and enjoy!!!!!! Oh and visit www.mattreasorandthemadness.com to see some of my art. It's where the red monkey comes from........

 Sincerely

Matt Reasor

posted about 1 year ago on Jun 21, 2007 | comments: 2 | read more |