FEATURED BAND: MATT LANDE

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Matt grew up in a small Central Florida town, the kind of town where dreams seem to be just a bit further out of reach and where many people simply see a dream as something unrealistic.

He longed for something more and started to find his direction after taking a guitar class during his senior year of High School. There is where Lande began to find his passion. After starting to hone his skills as a songwriter, guitarist and vocalist in local and regional bands he eventually found himself at the point of joining alt rockers’ StorySide: B.

Shortly after joining the band, they signed a deal with Gotee/EMI and toured extensively in support of the album “Everything and More”. Matt co-wrote the title track which was released as a single and climbed to the top of the charts. Lande spent 3 years with the band and then decided to move to Los Angeles where he signed a new deal for his own music as the lead vocalist, guitarist, writer and co-producer for the band Heaven Is Where. The following 5 years in Los Angeles were spent releasing 2 full length albums (Stories From Yesterday & Welcome Home The Child), a side project (DarkStar the EP) and performing with both his band and acoustically as a duo or solo until fulfilling his record deal.

Lande relocated to Portland, OR in 2013. This marked a fresh start for his indie music career as well as gigs working in film and television as a Double and Stand-In for actors such as Noah Wyle, Travis Fimmel, Steve Buscemi, Alexis Denisof and more.

 

The end of 2015 brought the release of his critically acclaimed album GLOW; a collection of emotive Alt Pop that would easily fit alongside the mainstream singer-songwriter material currently heard on terrestrial radio.

The success of GLOW gave Matt the confidence to experiment more with his new material, leading him to self-produce and mix his newest album, Boxes. “Boxes, is about packing up the negative things associated with the past and moving on. This album is something I’m extremely proud of on many levels.” His hands-on approach was so intense that he found himself making last minute edits to a mix of one of the songs while in a hotel room in London, minutes before heading to Abbey Road Studios to hand the material off to iconic mastering engineer Frank Arkwright.

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