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  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

  My latest solo album, Sleeper, was featured on Middle Music! Many thanks to Tim Bauer and the folks at Middle Music for the support, you can go give it a read here . You can also stream Sleeper below through the Bandcamp embed: Sleeper by Brady Matteson

So I figured I might as well answer a quick question for those wondering about why the heck I've been doing so much solo music! Not to fear, Vanity Contest is still active and hard at work with new material. I figured for a while I might as well explain why there's an "about me" tab when I only have two major releases... right? If you scroll a bit further, there's a TON of material that's from my earliest days of doing music. Those records from 2018 and back are all my earliest recordings and links to where you can find them. I was embarrassed by them for the longest time and took me a really long time to feel comfortable about them. For every half-decent idea, there were about 30 terrible ones. I was just learning how to use DAWs and just using my phone and whatever Garageband synth plugins I could find that I liked. Yeah, they're flawed, but it's my roots! The earliest gasps of Vanity Contest, for cryin' out loud! It took me a long time to accept...

Yes, it's true! I rebranded the blog AGAIN. I wanted a hub for all the things I've been doing. That's all. If you'd like, you can read more about that in the "About Me" tab. -brady