The wind here in Albuquerque is scary today. It’s the kind of wind that does damage to property. It tends to be like this around here in the springtime. But, damn, I really don’t remember it being this intense.
Also,…
Read moreMar 24 2024
The wind here in Albuquerque is scary today. It’s the kind of wind that does damage to property. It tends to be like this around here in the springtime. But, damn, I really don’t remember it being this intense.
Also,…
Read moreApr 4 2023
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It's episode 25 of The Matt Kollock Show!
A milestone episode, for sure. It took three years to get here. So, like, eight eps a year. Not bad! Not…
Read moreFeb 21 2023
Sometimes people ask me, “What does a music producer do?” I've noticed a fairly wide gulf between what people think a record producer does (and is responsible for) and what a producer actually does. So I decided to write about…
Read moreFeb 9 2023
The Matt Kollock Show is back!
Listen to it right here. Or you can find it easily wherever you get your podcasts. Apple. Spotify. Wherever. It's everywhere!
It's been nearly two years. Two years that felt like 20 years in…
Read moreFeb 3 2023
Gosh, it's been quite a busy year so far.
Busy with good things, mostly. Looks like this might shape up to be one of the really good years. I hope it's the same for you.
Anyway, one of the things…
Read moreMay 21 2021
microorganism is one week old! Oh my god!
Welcome to episode 22 of The Matt Kollock Show!
In this final installment of the album's oral history, I get into what it took to finish the album in the final…
Read moreMay 18 2021
You made it back!
Welcome to Episode 21 of The Matt Kollock Show!
It's the second installment of microorganism's oral history. And historically the middle ones of these things are the best, right? We'll see about that.
This…
Read moreMay 13 2021
May the 14th be with you!
It's the day. Today. Today is the day. Today the album is released. It's out there. Available. Ready to experience. Fuckin' A.
I conceived this album exactly 14 months ago. It was a different…
Read moreMay 12 2021
It's episode 20 of The Matt Kollock Show podcast! Holy shit! We did it!
It's also microorganism Release Week here on mattkollock.com. Nice!
So on today's big-time, super-sized, extra-large, power-packed podcast, we discuss the album and its creation. Lots of…
Read moreMar 5 2021
It's a new episode of the podcast! I think this is a good one. It's all about working together. Collaborating. Making magic by gathering in art. With people just like you, dear listener!
How are you? Can…
Read moreJan 19 2021
I'm back!
Guys! It's been, like, six months since I've posted a new episode of The Matt Kollock Show, and I'm happy to say that I've found my podcasting groove again. Or is it that I'm just avoiding the…
Read moreJul 13 2020
Hey. How's it going? Are you doing all right?
Episode 14 of The Matt Kollock Show covers my current thoughts about the state of my main instrument.
I have been a guitar player for…
Read moreJul 13 2020
I have some weird ideas about where music comes from. Well, maybe they aren't so weird. But they feel weird in the context of authorship and ownership and stuff like that.
Episode 13 of The Matt Kollock Show podcast covers…
Read moreMay 25 2020
It's episode ten of The Matt Kollock Show!!! We did it! They said we couldn't do it, but goddammit, we got it done. Good for us!
The last week has been…
Read moreApr 27 2020
It's another episode of The Matt Kollock Show podcast!
This is a lean, mean episode, clocking in at fewer than 58 minutes, but it is packed with goodies, as always.
I wasn't sure if I was…
Read moreApr 16 2020
Friends, I hope you have enjoyed the launch of The Matt Kollock Show as much as I have.
It's been exciting assembling the first four episodes and sharing them with you. The show has been a blast to do thus…
Read moreApr 16 2020
Guys! Welcome to the third episode of The Matt Kollock Show!
Three is one of the most magical numbers and Melissa Rios is one of the most magical musical people I know. In this episode, Melissa and I have…
Read moreJan 14 2020
When I was three, my mom and dad drove me to a nearby farm to pick out a puppy. Or maybe the little German Shepherd fellow had already been selected for me. I don't know. I remember sitting on my…
Read moreDec 3 2019
You would think that by now I'd have come up with some go-to descriptors of my music. But you would be wrong. I am happy to tell people that I am a musician, songwriter and performer. But when they inevitably…
Read moreNov 12 2019
I remember a time about 25 years ago when I told a girlfriend's mom that I would be perfectly content and fulfilled if I spent my life playing blues guitar licks in midwestern bars. At the time, that was my…
Read moreMay 7 2019
I can come up with chord progressions all day long. But that’s not songwriting.
By definition, a song is something that’s sung. You can’t sing a chord progression. In fact, it’s impossible. I know because I’ve tried.
Read moreApr 9 2019
I was staring at this white screen wondering what I should blog about today. It’s Tuesday and the blog Gods demand new content. Then I remembered reading this fascinating article all about Giannis Antetokounmpo’s pregame routine as I was lying…
Read moreMar 26 2019
Hi there and thank you for checking out the Matt Kollock blog! It’s been a minute, so I’m happy to be back on track with this thing. I was just gonna take one week off, and then a whole damn…
Read moreJan 22 2019
Look at me back up on my songwriting horse!
Last year — 2018 — I challenged myself to write two songs each month. I was ahead of schedule for most of the year. But then somewhere around the middle of…
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