Matt Marks Music

I recently became really burnt out on listening to music. My process in making music involves repeated listenings of my tracks/pieces so my time away from work began to involve more reading and watching TV and films. Thus I, a rabid music hound/record collector/mp3 pirate, found myself exchanging my headphones for a book on subway [...]

As my partner-in-crime, Melly Hughes, sings Rosh Hashanna services all this week I reflect on the recent arrival of September, which to folks such as myself – whose lives still oddly rotate around those calendars Academic and Concert – is a New Year of a different sort. It has been a fun, crazy, and not-very-relaxing [...]

After working on it for over three years (!), my post-Christian nihilist pop-opera, The Little Death: Vol. 1 is out now on New Amsterdam Records! It features myself and Mellissa Hughes on vocals, and James Moore and Mike Gurfield on Guitar and Trumpet! Here is New Amsterdam’s description: The Little Death: Vol. 1 is an ambitious new work that fuses [...]

AL MOST… HERE!! One more day folks! Pre-order on Amazon NOW! Also, here is the link to purchase the album on iTunes (link won’t work until tomorrow, btw). In the meantime, there are soon to be a plethora of interviews with Mellissa Hughes and I about the project, which I will heartily link to. We [...]

It’s almost here folks! Pre-order on Amazon now! Also, stay tuned for news on our upcoming two-week run at the Ontological Theater in July! Oh, and there’s a video coming soon by the masters at Satan’s Pearl Horses! Plus, in case you haven’t yet, grab these two free downloads! I Don’t Have Any Fun I [...]

So I don’t mean to, ya know: but I thought I’d weigh in once more on the ‘alt/indie/post/anti/whatever-classical’ debate, this time on the question as to whether it’s even relevant to discuss (a discussion on which is of course an awesome paradox). Dennis Desantis weighed in on the ‘why are we even discussing this?’-tip: The [...]

The Melly & Mafoo Variety Hour, my duo with Mellissa Hughes, has a show this Saturday, 8pm at the Gershwin Hotel. In the spirit of television variety shows from the 70s, we play covers and medleys of “popular music”. I put that term in quotes because our pop songs come from a variety of sources: [...]

There is indeed “trouble in the bubble”! There has been a lot of blog-talk recently about the ‘alt-classical’ scene and its relationship to pop music. Being the new music troll that I am, I injected myself into some of these discussions and stirred the pot a bit. I’ll explain my perspective a bit more in [...]

After an Alarm Will Sound/Dirty Projectors February and a Little Death March, I’m looking forward to something new this April. Well, I’ve got it in that I’ll be playing (horn) for the first time with two new music ensembles that I really dig and respect, as well as playing in my improbably fun duo with [...]

  So I’m doing a small presentation on my upcoming post-Christian nihilist pop-opera, The Little Death, at a Live Arts Collaboration Salon – this coming Monday 11/30 at 7pm. I’m excited for a few reasons: A. I get to talk about myself (and what narcissistic artist doesn’t get off on that?); B. I’m going to [...]