Tonight: Matt Hires at Anthology

Matt Hires will be at Anthology tonight. It's an early show (at 7:30) so you can still make it out to another destination of get home early enough to prepare for your Monday morning blues.

Here are two versions of his song "Out of The Dark". The version from the harbor cruise is my 2nd most viewed video, which I'm sure is a direct result of the placement of this song in a pivotal scene in Grey's Anatomy. Over 47,000 views!





And this is a song called "A To B". At the time this was filmed, it wasn't yet recorded, but not it's available on an EP of the same name.

Show Videos: Suzanne Vega, Fanfarlo, Caitlin Crosby, Matt Hires

Last week I was all over the place and I thought YouTube was messing with me, but sadly I went back to my videos and most of them are over the 2 gig limit, so until I figure out how to shrink my files (which I'm sure is easier than I think), I'll just share the ones that did upload.

Starting with Tuesday night, after a fun, albeit underattended Mardi Gras party at the House of Blues, I went to the Loft to see Suzanne Vega. She sounded exactly like she sounds recorded, which if you're a fan is exactly what you hope for. She played two sold-out shows at The Loft, and they had little cocktail tables out with seating for this show. The crowd was older and very attentive. Considering most of the tour was small theatres, seeing her among 150 people was pretty special. Of course I got Luke and Tom's Diner on video, but like I said, I'll have to do some research to see what this little laptop can do to shrink those down.





On Wednesday, I went up to Secret Cedar studios where FM 94/9 was hosting winners to see Fanfarlo. They weren't playing a proper show in San Diego, just a couple radio gigs and the Sunset Sessions, which is a conference type thing for AAA radio stations.







I really love Fanfarlo and look forward to them swinging back through town on a proper tour because they were great at the Casbah back in December.

I don't have any videos from The Damned, or any pictures for that matter, as I was slinging t-shirts and didn't get to see the shows at all, but on Friday, I was ready to unwind and went big with the early show at the Casbah with Matt Hires before going to the Casbah for Steve Poltz's birthday. I have videos from that but you'll have to wait. In the meantime, here are a couple from the early show.





This one is a new unreleased Matt Hires song called A To B.


I know this isn't really a review, but I'm not in the mood to write. Maybe I'll upload some photos and talk more about the shows, but I think the videos sort of speak enough about the performances. It was a good week in music. I will note that the majority of the crowd at the early show were Casbah first timers and very obviously there to see American Idol finalist Jason Castro. When he played I counted at least 16 people filming his set, and while I thought he had a great voice, I wasn't much impressed with the simple love lyrics of his music. So that's that.

Videos: Matt Hires at M-Theory Music

I still have a couple weeks worth of photos and videos that I want to post, but I have last night on the brain. The evening started at M-Theory, where Matt Hires did a short in-store before his performance at Anthology, opening for Tyrone Wells. I seriously love this kid and his album is one of my favorites of the year. He got a boost when his song "Out of the dark" played on Grey's Anatomy a couple weeks ago, but I still think he is a talent that people will discover and wonder how they missed him when he was on the rise.

Matt played 4 songs at M-Theory. And I captured all of them for you, in the order they were performed. The other three if you 'keep on reading'. If you're in another city, here are the remainder of Matt's tour dates:

November
6 Anaheim, CA - House of Blues
7 San Francisco, CA - Slims
8 Sacramento, CA - Marilyn’s On K
11 Portland, OR - Aladdin Theater
14 Seattle, WA - Neumos
18 Boise, ID - The Reef

Grey's Anatomy: Matt Hires "Out of the Dark"

Tonight's episode of Grey's Anatomy featured one of my favorite new artists of the year, Matt Hires, and his song "Out Of The Dark". I was fortunate enough to see Matt perform on a KPRI show on the Hornblower earlier this summer. Keep an eye out because the kid has some serious talent. Here's his performance of that song:



You can see the rest of the videos from the performance here.

KPRI Presents Matt Hires, 8.18.09

KPRI had another harbor cruise this week featuring Matt Hires, a 23 year old singer-songwriter from Tampa, Florida. Having received his album a few weeks back, I was a huge fan from the very first listen and anyone who opens their set with my baby song, "You Are My Sunshine" pretty much wins me over instantly. I recorded the whole set to share and hope that you check out Matt's record, "Take Us To The Start", which was released on iTunes a couple weeks ago and will be in stores next Tuesday, August 25. It's already charting well on iTunes and I imagine the numbers will continue to grow as he moves from AAA radio and Pandora to AC stations. I absolutely loved the show and hope you enjoy the footage. YouTube kept failing me, so hopefully the videos all work properly now.



This one's for Josh...


More videos if you 'keep on reading'.