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The New CD, Jaywalking, is now available!

matt — Mon, 16 May 2011 19:46:33 +0000

Hi everybody!

Thanks to everybody who came out on Thursday April 21st at The Casa Del Popolo in Montreal. It was a great night! They were so many great singers in the audience that at times, it felt like I had a choir backing me up. For those of you who couldn’t make it, the new CD Jaywalking is available at l’Oblique (4333 Rivard at the corner of Marie Anne, right next to Mount Royal Metro). I will also be performing at the Montreal Fringe Festival on Sunday June 12th at 1:30 at the Parc des Ameriques. It’s a free outdoor event. Long live summer!

Show at Café des arts November 6, 2010

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:17:12 +0000

This butterfly heads south

matt — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:01:31 +0000

I’m going to Nashville! It’s always been a dream of mine to go to that songwriting mecca. I hope to meet with some publishers who can place some of my songs with artists that don’t write their own songs (such as Rod Stewart: “Hey Rod, I have a song for you!”) Anyways, I got time off work May 17th to May 30th. My wife Vivian and I are going to hit the road and drive straight into the Southland chasing that dream. We’ll be staying at the SOCAN house (this organization will be putting us up for free! Isn’t that nice?)

Snowed-in at the studio under the stairs

matt — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:02:30 +0000

Much like Harry Potter’s room under the stairs, my cousin Andrew’s studio is a glorified walk-in closet….but it sounds so good! While the wind was howling outside, Andrew and I were locked into that closet for two days straight. We came out with the bed tracks for 11 songs! We are so pleased with the way it sounds. The record is going to have a great vibe. We recorded those 11 songs live-off-the-floor: vocals, acoustic guitar and electric guitar. We are going to add some bass and some background vocals to some of the songs. Some of them we are going to leave as they are ’cause we don’t want to mess with the magic. I can’t wait to share it with everyone. This weekend, I will be recording more songs, especially of the fingerpicking variety. I will keep you posted.

Matt

In the studio for a new album!

matt — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:31:00 +0000

Merry Christmas to all of you! I just wanted to let you know that my cousin, Andrew Lipscombe, and I will be going into the studio on January 2nd to record a new album. It will be called The Lipscombes. It’s a family affair! We’ll be snowed in, with a bunch of gear, a bunch of instruments. What more can you ask for?

Quebec City

matt — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:02:52 +0000

On Saturday November 21st, My cousin Andrew and I, (together we are The Lipscombes) are going to be playing at one of our favourite clubs: The Bal du Lézard in Québec City. It’s going to be a rockin’ night, I can feel it. The people in Quebec City are awesome. The vibe is right. These days we are rehearsing and getting psyched to perform. My cousin, Andrew Lipscombe is an amazing electric guitarist. He always plays those sweet soulful blues notes that bring out the feeling of the music. “Can you feel it?” he always asks. You can check out our project by clicking on the Butterfly track on this page. Hope to see you at the show!

Here is the info:

Show date: Saturday November 21st 9:30PM.

The address of The Bal du Lézard is 1049 3e Avenue in the Limoilou district of Quebec City. The show starts at 9:30. Cover is $5.

Matt

New York City

matt — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:50:00 +0000

I just got back from New York. What a blast! Vivian and I performed at this open-mic variety show which featured avant-garde films, music, dance-poetry and collective audience massage!(I kid you not, only in New York!). We also chanced upon Woody Allen’s band playing a hole-in-a-wall. We did a pilgrimage to the legendary Apollo in Harlem and we went to the beach down at Brighton Beach (the Russian area of Brooklyn). I dipped my feet in the Atlantic Ocean in October! We were staying in a charming cockroach-infested appartment in the East Village. A nice lady from Argentina was renting us her guest bed-room. We had some tasty Tajin at a Moroccon place called the Mogador and some amazing Malasian food in Little Italy. All around it was a wonderful trip. We will go back there…this time to play a show!

matt

Quebec City – 21 Nov 2009

matt — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:49:56 +0000

May 2nd show

matt — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:47:34 +0000

We just cut a new song in the studio and it is blazing hot!

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:27:00 +0000

I just got back from DNA studios here in Montreal. We just recorded a song live in the studio and mixed it in under four hours. It was incredible. What a vibe! – Thanks to a large extent to studio guru Dave Sturton. As well, check out the great musicians that we had on this song. We had Sage Reynolds on the upright bass and Mark Nelson on the drums. Moe Clark did a guest appearance with us by singing some beautiful harmonies. The whole tune really cooks and what’s more, there is a message to this song.

It is called “Living by the Gun” and it is dedicated to Freddy Villanueva – the 18 year-old young man gunned down by police during a “routine” patrol of a Montreal North park. It was this tragic killing that sparked the subsequent Montreal North Riot. So this song is a plea for “something to be done” about the growing trend of violence in Montreal.

One can think of a few solutions: better activities for the youth: sports tournaments, hip-hop dancing festivals, studios for up and coming young rap artists…you know to keep them occupied and out of the youth gang scene. There has to be equally attractive options or the gangs will keep growing. As for the police, well gunning down innocent civilians is not going build bridges with the community! Download the song for free from my MySpace: www.myspace.com/mattlipscombe pass it on to your friends…let’s get a dialogue going!