Matthew Logan Vasquez – Same

Labels: Dine Alone Records
Number of Tracks: 1
Total Time: 4:32
Formats: Triple A, AAA, Non-Commercial, NPR
Available Date & Time: February 21, 2017 11:00 AM ET
Impact Date: February 22, 2017
Country: USA

Key Points:

April 21st album titled "Does What He Wants" on Dine Alone Records
"Same" premiered by Consequence of Sound on 1/27/2017 who call it "a strong and soulful melody that stands up to the singer’s best work with Delta Spirit."
Official video for "Same" coming soon via Paste or similar
"Same" already added at WXPN-Philadelphia!
"Quite simply, "Same" is the best thing MLV has ever done. Soulful and funky and rockin’, great attitude, great hook."
Dan Reed/WXPN
"Even up against a catalog as strong as Delta Spirit, Matthew Logan Vasquez has just written his best song ever. "Same" pulls off the rare feat of having lyrical substance, while being catchy as all get out. You’d be doing a disservice to your audience by not playing it."
Kyle Meredith WFPK
"A strong and soulful melody that stands up to the singer’s best work with Delta Spirit." COS
"This song is about all the financial difficulty I went through that caused my family and I to move in with my mom for most of 2016, [It’s] about confronting adversities in life and how we all go through it." Matthew Logan Vasquez
Bio:

Matthew Logan Vasquez is feeling optimistic although that’s not necessarily apparent the first time you spin his new full-length solo album. Each track on Does What He Wants feels urgent and intense. Impatient landlords, financial woes and other frustrations fan the agitation embedded in the opening track, "Same.".

The music enhances this impression. As fans of his work with Delta Spirit and Middle Brother know well, Vasquez knows how to fuse passion and poetry in his writing and then ignite this volatile mix with extraordinarily expressive singing. In this sense he stands as a peer and a worthy successor to those who influenced him as an up-and-coming artist — Neil Young, Kurt Cobain, Pink Floyd, Lou Reed and others often mentioned, none of them known for their upbeat, sunny lyrics. For Vasquez, context involves drawing from dramatically different settings. Growing up in Texas and along the California coast, hunkering down for years in Brooklyn as he finessed his music in a more pressurized urban context and then heading back to Austin to put all the pieces together, he took note of the differences and similarities these places offered. During much of that time he channeled his experiences into Delta Spirit, whose albums inspired critics to laud the band as "restless and defiant" (Paste), its music infused by "waves of measured ferocity" (Uncut) and "significant depth" (Austin Chronicle). Vasquez was actually in the process of writing for a projected upcoming Delta Spirit project early last year when he began to think that it might be more appropriate to focus instead on his next solo effort. "I was imagining a new Delta Spirit album as I was writing," he says. "But I began to realize that’s not exactly where I’m at right now. The band isn’t broken up but it’s not coming back right now. I started to feel like Rhett Miller, who had to go away from the Old 97s for a while so he could get tap into his creativity and come back to the band in a new and healthy way."

To keep his path clear and work on his own terms, Vasquez built a studio in his home for this past year — a trailer parked about an hour west of Austin. Here, in Texas Hill Country, surrounded by evergreen oak trees, he wrote and recorded basic tracks and then brought in singer Kam Franklin from The Suffers and Shakey Graves drummer Christopher Booshada to add parts as needed. In final form, Does What He Wants is like a hall of mirrors, each capturing a different image of one self-aware and restlessly creative individual. This music is diverse yet unified, which of course was a priority for its author. And, in the end, it turns out to feel pretty optimistic after all — a perfect statement for these times and possibly for some time to come.

Tour Dates:

Mar 23 – Kansas City, MO, Knuckleheads 50*
Mar 24 – Tulsa, OK, Cain’s Ballroom*
Mar 25 – Fayetteville, AR, George’s Majestic Lounge*
Mar 27 – San Antonio, TX, Sam’s Burger Joint*
Mar 29 – Dallas, TX, Granada*
Mar 30 – Austin, TX, Emo’s*
Mar 31 – Houston, TX, White Oak Music Hall*
Apr 01 – Baton Rouge, LA, Spanish Moon*
Apr 03 – Pensacola, FL, Vynil Music Hall*
Apr 04 – Tampa, FL, State Theatre*
Apr 05 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Culture Room*
Apr 07 – Orlando, FL, The Beacham Theatre*
Apr 08 – St. Augustine, FL, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall*
Apr 09 – Tallahassee, FL, Capital City Ampitheater at Cascades Park*
Apr 10 – Birmingham, AL, Syndicate Lounge*
Apr 11 – Hattiesburg, MS, Thirsty Hippo*
Apr 20 – Atlanta, GA, Eddie’s Attic
Apr 21 – Nashville, TN, High Watt
Apr 22 – Lynchburg, VA, Lynchfest
Apr 23 – Charleston, SC, High Water Festival
Apr 25 – Durham, NC, Pinhook
Apr 26 – Philadelphia, PA, Boot & Saddle
Apr 27 – Washington, DC, DC9
Apr 28 – Cambridge, MA, Middle East Upstairs
Apr 29 – Brooklyn, NY, Rough Trade
May 01 – Toronto, ON, The Drake Hotel
May 03 – Detroit, MI, Pike Room
May 04 – Chicago, IL, Subterranean
May 05 – Indianapolis, IN, Hi-Fi First Friday
May 06 – Madison, WI, The Frequency
May 07 – Minneapolis, MIN, 7th St Entry
May 09 – St. Louis, MO, Duck Room at Blueberry Hill
May 17 – Tucson, AZ, Flycatcher
May 18 – San Diego, CA, Casbah
May 19 – Los Angeles, CA, Bootleg
May 20 – San Francisco, CA, Bottom of the Hill
May 22 – Vancouver, BC, Fox
May 23 – Portland, OR, Mississippi Studios
May 24 – Seattle, WA, Sunset
May 26 – Salt Lake City, UTUrban
May 27 – Denver, CO, Larimer

* w/ Shovels & Rope

Online:

http://matthewloganvasquezblog.wordpress.com

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