![EP and Tour Questions! Answered!*note: I searched “Questions” on Google Image, and this picture cracked me up, so… enjoy! These are answers to some questions I’ve been getting on Twitter/FB/email recently, and I thought I should
Hey, Matt, you’ve been talking about a new EP. You’d mentioned it might come out in June and then you’d tour during the summer. Is that still happening?
Well, yes and no. Is there still an EP coming out? Absolutely—1 song is completely in the can (complete with string orchestra), one more just needs vocals, and two are currently being edited and prepped for mixing. Is it coming out in June? Well, probably not. Here’s the thing: I have a new song that I’m currently finishing. I love love love love LOVE where this song is going. This EP didn’t really have an obvious “single” when I put together the original four songs for it, but this new one has “single potential” written all over it (and hopefully into it… ya know, once I finish writing it). So, in the interest of giving you all the absolute best EP that I can (and the best bang for your buck—5 songs for $5 just feels better to me than 4 for the same price), the release date will probably be at the end of the summer. Here’s the super-rough plan: soft-release the EP (make it available for sale online, etc.) end of August or beginning of September. Tour during the fall. Come back from tour and play a big EP release show in Chicago. The rough timeline places all of that happening from August through October or so. All of those things will DEFINITELY happen, but the actual dates might still be changed based on production progress, booking, etc. because I don’t want to rush anything and give you all a slipshod product.
Moral of the story: the EP is coming and will be out as soon as it is awesome. I’m super-proud of everything going on it, and I think you’re really going to like it. I’m co-producing with Bill Prokopow again, which guarantees that it’ll be fantastic (and will be more akin to “Looking For Home” than, say, the balladness of “Friends & Family” or the twang of “Ryd ‘Em Cowboy”). And after it’s finished, I’ll shoot it out, tour, and have a major release show in Chicago.
You’ve been mentioned other things… stuff involving putting out vinyl, involving ukuleles, and other random things about upcoming releases? What’s the deal with that?
I have a brain that refuses to let me think anything short of five steps ahead of where I am. That means I’m pretty much always planning and brainstorming for the project after next, and the project after that, and… yeah, it’s a minefield up there.
Basically, after the next EP is finished, I have plans to work on two projects simultaneously. One is going to involve ukuleles and vinyl records and will be an interesting experiment that I don’t want to condense down, so I promise to fill you all in when the time is right. And the other is another experiment—sort of an examination of my roots as a songwriter. Basically, I’m going through every song that I wrote while I was in high school and picking out the absolute best. Then, I’m re-recording them, and am going to put out a short EP. Why? {Shrug} It’ll be fun! And we’ll do something cool where preorders get the original versions of those songs, as recorded in 2002-3, and get to compare the 10 year difference.
Why don’t you do [insert song here] or more videos like [insert previous video here]?
Because I didn’t know that you wanted me to! Let me know! Email, Facebook, Tweet—if you’d like me to do something, tell me! I can’t promise that I’ll do it, but it helps me a lot to hear what people want to see and hear!
When is your next video coming out?
Soon! And it’ll be different, and awesome, and I’m actually not in it at all.
Anything else?
Depends. I have a new song that I’m working on that I really like and am considering releasing as almost a B-Side to “Ryd ‘Em Cowboy” (it’s not technically a B-Side since it will have been written and recorded well after the EP, but I’m feeling like the production will put it stylistically in line with those songs. We’ll see, though—I still need to test it out, demo it, and decide whether I actually like it, or whether I just think I’m in love with it because it’s new.
Cool. I think that’s all the questions I had. Do you feel silly having an imaginary conversation with yourself?
I probably would if it weren’t such a frequent occurrence. :-)
Thanks, everyone! Much love to you all!That guy who makes music that you sometimes listen to, Facebook statuses that occasionally make you chuckle, and thinks that you’re all just the coolest people in the world,Matt](http://24.media.tumblr.com/c3f23e5b8c77158b5f67775ff96b58ce/tumblr_mn470tK1B51qa6479o1_1280.jpg)
EP and Tour Questions! Answered!
*note: I searched “Questions” on Google Image, and this picture cracked me up, so… enjoy! These are answers to some questions I’ve been getting on Twitter/FB/email recently, and I thought I should
Hey, Matt, you’ve been talking about a new EP. You’d mentioned it might come out in June and then you’d tour during the summer. Is that still happening?
Well, yes and no. Is there still an EP coming out? Absolutely—1 song is completely in the can (complete with string orchestra), one more just needs vocals, and two are currently being edited and prepped for mixing. Is it coming out in June? Well, probably not. Here’s the thing: I have a new song that I’m currently finishing. I love love love love LOVE where this song is going. This EP didn’t really have an obvious “single” when I put together the original four songs for it, but this new one has “single potential” written all over it (and hopefully into it… ya know, once I finish writing it). So, in the interest of giving you all the absolute best EP that I can (and the best bang for your buck—5 songs for $5 just feels better to me than 4 for the same price), the release date will probably be at the end of the summer. Here’s the super-rough plan: soft-release the EP (make it available for sale online, etc.) end of August or beginning of September. Tour during the fall. Come back from tour and play a big EP release show in Chicago. The rough timeline places all of that happening from August through October or so. All of those things will DEFINITELY happen, but the actual dates might still be changed based on production progress, booking, etc. because I don’t want to rush anything and give you all a slipshod product.
Moral of the story: the EP is coming and will be out as soon as it is awesome. I’m super-proud of everything going on it, and I think you’re really going to like it. I’m co-producing with Bill Prokopow again, which guarantees that it’ll be fantastic (and will be more akin to “Looking For Home” than, say, the balladness of “Friends & Family” or the twang of “Ryd ‘Em Cowboy”). And after it’s finished, I’ll shoot it out, tour, and have a major release show in Chicago.
You’ve been mentioned other things… stuff involving putting out vinyl, involving ukuleles, and other random things about upcoming releases? What’s the deal with that?
I have a brain that refuses to let me think anything short of five steps ahead of where I am. That means I’m pretty much always planning and brainstorming for the project after next, and the project after that, and… yeah, it’s a minefield up there.
Basically, after the next EP is finished, I have plans to work on two projects simultaneously. One is going to involve ukuleles and vinyl records and will be an interesting experiment that I don’t want to condense down, so I promise to fill you all in when the time is right. And the other is another experiment—sort of an examination of my roots as a songwriter. Basically, I’m going through every song that I wrote while I was in high school and picking out the absolute best. Then, I’m re-recording them, and am going to put out a short EP. Why? {Shrug} It’ll be fun! And we’ll do something cool where preorders get the original versions of those songs, as recorded in 2002-3, and get to compare the 10 year difference.
Why don’t you do [insert song here] or more videos like [insert previous video here]?
Because I didn’t know that you wanted me to! Let me know! Email, Facebook, Tweet—if you’d like me to do something, tell me! I can’t promise that I’ll do it, but it helps me a lot to hear what people want to see and hear!
When is your next video coming out?
Soon! And it’ll be different, and awesome, and I’m actually not in it at all.
Anything else?
Depends. I have a new song that I’m working on that I really like and am considering releasing as almost a B-Side to “Ryd ‘Em Cowboy” (it’s not technically a B-Side since it will have been written and recorded well after the EP, but I’m feeling like the production will put it stylistically in line with those songs. We’ll see, though—I still need to test it out, demo it, and decide whether I actually like it, or whether I just think I’m in love with it because it’s new.
Cool. I think that’s all the questions I had. Do you feel silly having an imaginary conversation with yourself?
I probably would if it weren’t such a frequent occurrence. :-)
Thanks, everyone! Much love to you all!
That guy who makes music that you sometimes listen to, Facebook statuses that occasionally make you chuckle, and thinks that you’re all just the coolest people in the world,
Matt
