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 *FOR MARKETING CLASS* Hey everybody, So it's been a minute since I've checked in! I've been rolling along with the Grief in Cycles shows and the records have been doing well. I wanted to catch up and talk about a few things, mainly the latest happenings with my projects right now and then go over the larger plan for next year. Regarding the work behind Care Center, it's on hold right now. Nick and I are both busy with our respective main projects. Pray for Death is going into the studio this summer to record our debut album, and the solo stuff is still fresh, so there's nothing on that radar right now. Since we're at the halfway point of the year, I figured this would be a good time to talk about some plans for a larger-scale thing I want to make happen. I bring it up now because it's something that is going to be immense to pull together and make happen. Within the next year I plan to launch Chicago Record Swap, a bi-annual event hosted at the beginning an...

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RUBINE IS LIVE, BABY! The album is streaming everywhere. I am greatly thankful for the press on the record, and the support it has gotten so far. The album peaked at NUMBER SEVEN on the Chicago Ambient charts via Bandcamp. The rest of the cassette run sold out within a few days of the album going live on the 8th and was totally gone by the 13th. That's insane to me, I am so humbled by the love for the record. Please keep bumping it! Share it with friends, stream it, tell people, tell your dogs, I dunno. The solo Bandcamp has done really well lately, it's gone from 20 something followers to over 50 in the span of a few weeks and this is the most any of my records has been downloaded. It's crazy to even begin process the success of it compared to prior records. As far as press goes, Rubine was featured on Chicago Soundcheck's Fresh Tracks, which you can check out here. Many thanks to Brian Shamie for the feature and support with both my own projects and Vanity Contest. ...

Hey people, My new record “Rubine” drops April 8th. The latest single "Mouth of Canyon" is currently available on Bandcamp for streaming. You can pre-save the album through your streaming service of choice, include your email if you want to be entered to win a FREE cassette copy of the album! Tapes are limited to 20 copies, with a wider CD release this summer. Thanks for the support. About “Rubine”: “An abstract collision, seemingly still from the outside. Rubine’s synth-driven textures slowly evolve through slick and careful orchestration. This is electronic minimalism at its very best-and whether it’s intention is as so, one cannot help but truly meditate upon the inner workings of the mind and soul when experiencing this record.” Bandcamp: https://bradymatteson.bandcamp.com/album/rubine Streaming Pre-Save: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/bradymatteson/rubine

  Hey people, So a year ago Sleeper was released! If you're interested, I dropped some of the extra photography from the sessions. There's no demos or b-sides or anything, I only recorded everything I put on the record. Check it out below and if you'd like to download the album on me, you can find the BandCamp codes for it here . Brady

Pictured: alternate cover art, taken from the physical editions of the album. “You are now listening to 103.5 Dawn FM. You’ve been in the dark for way too long. It’s time to walk into the light and accept your fate with open arms. Scared? Don’t worry. We’ll be there to hold your hand and guide you through this painless transition. But what’s the rush? Just relax and enjoy another hour of commercial ‘free yourself’ music on 103.5 Dawn FM. Tune in.” The Weeknd is one of the biggest artists on the planet right now, if not THE biggest artist out there. His previous album, 2020's After Hours , was a mammoth success that smashed record after record, charted endlessly, and sold thousands of copies. You've been living under a rock if you haven't heard  Blinding Lights or Save Your Tears over the past two years. Culminating in a glitzy, glamorous Super Bowl LV Half Time set, designed after the imagery and motifs of After Hours' Vegas settings. So how do you follow up THE bigg...

pictured: me, a week ago 2021 was an... eventful year. Certainly more eventful than 2020, but equally, if not more scarring. With wrapping up my sophomore year of college and entering my junior year, there were plenty of ups, downs, and opportunities. Didn't love it, didn't hate it though! Some sure-fire highlights were getting to interview Ilan Rubin , completing the Capstone Challenge with Braven, and managing to pull a lot of really cool things together behind the scenes I can't quite talk about, music-wise. Speaking of music, some amazing albums came out this year. My list of favorites is below. I wanted to thank you folks for being good to me, I'm thankful I've made as many new friends this year as I have. It's been a really tough one emotionally and to have good people to turn to is a privilege. I'm glad I managed to get back to my job and glad I'm able to do what I do. A big struggle has been keeping motivated in just... all aspects of my life. I ...

Alright. It's officially colder out. Trees look dead, you wanna go out less. You need some comfort music to ease that seasonal depression. Brady's got you covered. It's pretty simple. I'm gonna gush about some albums. I'll link each one too. Some records I'll have more to say about than others. There's no specific order. Here goes nothing! Alessandro Cortini - Avanti I wanted to bring this one up first since I figured it was the most appropriate for this sort of weather. It's fuzzy, warm synths layered over delay and reverb. The record was made as a soundtrack to Cortini's home videos, which had no audio to them whatsoever when he discovered the original tapes. The record is a stunning piece of music and it was my gateway to discovering tape recorders as instruments, and my gateway to his solo work. Can't recommend it enough. Fennesz - Black Sea Fennesz is one of those artists I wish I found out about sooner. Black Sea is dark. It's murky and...

So my busiest weekend of the year is winding down. It felt so good to be doing more proper, LOUD live shows.  Last night at Liar's Club was fucking excellent. It was a super tight gig and we absolutely nailed it in typical Creeps fashion. I remembered why we don't do the paper suits much though, man. I was so dehydrated by the end of the show, even just wearing the suits for three songs I feel like I exhausted SO much more energy just because it was so fucking hot on stage. I was boiling. However, we ripped through the set and I was so glad we were first. It was an easy night! I loved the acoustic gig Vanity Contest did in August but man, being at an actual venue was a breath of fresh air. I felt so much more in my element. The visuals, the whole vibe we were going for was a lot more along the lines of what we're about. We debuted some new material from [REDACTED], and even played Eyes Open for the first time (glad we didn't at the acoustic gig). People were super rece...

Sinner Get Ready is tied. Fuck. I didn't think I'd be as into this album as I was. Believe me, I was wary of the collaborations and it being a double album, I know they'd always talked about not being sure of doing one. I went in excited, but not completely over the moon. I thought I was prepared, and I still got my fucking face melted and my heart broken. I don't say this lightly, but I think Mastodon have finally... truly surpassed what's often been considered their very best work. If you could say that. If anything, they raised their own bar enormously high. I didn't know exactly how possible that was considering the vast, dense musicality of "the big four" and 2017's Emperor of Sand .  Yes, I'm serious. This is an absolute triumph. Some may argue it's bloated, too "mid-tempo," it's not "sludgy" enough as a certain melon has griped on their more recent material. You can think that. It's ok. I feel otherwise....

Does anybody find it funny that Facebook and Instagram were down the day after a pretty damning series of information came out about how they're TOTALLY aware of how much hate they foster and promote? Me too. Fuck Zuckerbot. Break Facebook up. YEAH, I CAN SAY THAT HERE. YOU CAN'T GET TO ME HERE IF NOBODY CARES ABOUT BLOGGER ANYMORE YOU ROBOT BASTARD! Anyways, being downtown again more frequently has been really nice. Especially with the fall weather officially kicked in. I really missed that morning ritual of just, waking up super early and getting to be around such a busy environment as it's all just starting to wake up. There's kind of a zen vibe to it. It's nice. I just didn't appreciate as much as I should have initially. I mean, I did but... not like I do now. There's something kind of calming knowing somewhere so busy can be so quiet and empty sometimes too. To kind of build on that, being downtown again I'm reminded of the numerous treks in diffe...

Hello. Not too much happening now. It's pretty nice. Facebook and Instagram have been down basically all day so far. Just kinda been listening to records and chilling out after a busy weekend. Two artists, in particular, have been on a helluva loop lately. HEALTH and TOBACCO. Absolutely loving their stuff lately. HEALTH's Vol. 4 :: Slaves Of Fear and TOBACCO's Sweatbox Dynasty have been on heavy rotation. There's something really hypnotic and compelling about both records, but I have yet to put my finger on what exactly. I especially love how digestible they are, they're not long records by any means and the tracks are short and sweet. Nothing overstays its welcome.  Anyways, so this whole Instagram and Facebook thing is weird. On one hand, I'm fine with Facebook being gone with all the misinformation and bullshit. On the other hand, I DO use both services to keep in touch with a lot of people and it'd suck to basically be starting over with no platform to p...

 So, I have pretty bad insomnia. It's developed over the past year or so and it's caused by a lot of different reasons. I've picked up a few habits that have (for the most part) helped me out. I have a lot on my mind, so tonight I'm gonna try getting a lot of things out of my system. A big that helps me is journaling and just kinda word-vomiting. A big thing that's been keeping me going lately is the new Vanity Contest album. It's looking likely that we're stopping all projects for the remainder of this year, putting them on the back burner, and focusing on shows and this new record. It's really something else. We've been a little quiet on working on it other than saying that "we're working on it." It's really coming together on the instrumental end. Picking apart tracks, polishing up the agonizing little details. You probably wouldn't notice but I know it's there, so I have to fix it. We're gonna try doing vocals ove...

  Hey people! My new EP Birdsong is now available on all streaming platforms and through Bandcamp. You can find the link to it here or on my Bandcamp . The video for the single, Lakefront, is embedded below. 

  Hey! Just letting you guys know about the Sleeper Sessions, a project I've been working on and keeping up with that's a series of live performances from my solo projects. Check it out!

Photo by Oliver Halfin, you can find them here So, as part of my class project, I was required to get two interviews with music industry professionals. I got the opportunity to interview none other than The New Regime mastermind, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee, and Nine Inch Nails drummer Ilan Rubin. I recently received his latest release Heart Mind Body & Soul on vinyl and got in touch with Ilan to ask him some questions about his career. Ilan is the sole member of the alt-rock project The New Regime, and handles all of the songwriting and performing himself, and produces each record with his brother Aaron. Of course, I also had to ask a couple of questions about his new album, as it topped my best albums of 2020 list. Ilan was incredibly kind and gave me the "OK" to put the interview up here. *This interview was conducted as part of the Hustle Your Career project for BravenX's Winter/Spring 2021 program, to get insight from people that work in the industry tha...

My latest solo album Sleeper was featued on The Wicker People, give it a read below through the embed! Also, tapes of Sleeper were released for Bandcamp Friday, they're limited to 30 copies. If you'd like a copy you can pick one up on my bandcamp . Thank you to Christian Moreno for the wonderful write-up and the very kind words! Follow him on his Instagram @thewickerpeople. View this post on Instagram A post shared by @thewickerpeople Sleeper by Brady Matteson