Matt’s song “Dying to Feel Alive” was featured on MTV’s Real World, Washington, DC on Wed. Jan 6. Stay tuned for a video clip from the episode.

http://www.mtv.com/shows/real_world/Washingtondc/episode_music.jhtml?episodeID=164205

Matt Shwachman Band Earns New Success

Blackstone Valley Tribune

1/1/10

Mark Renburke

Matt Shwachman and his band a.k.a. (MSB) produce an acoustic guitar driven-blend of original pop and rock. With Hugh Allen on bass, Mike Fiore on lead guitar and Dana Bonardi on percussion, MSB prides itself on being a very hard working band, playing hundreds of shows at arenas, festivals, universities and top club venues in the Northeast.

Matt’s songs have been featured on various TV shows. “Side of the Road” earned aspot on the hit TV series, “One Tree Hill,” while the emo-driven ballad “Wait for Me (Hold On),” recently closed out the final dramatic scene of the season of MTV’s Real World Cancun. His music is also doing well at college radio, with airplay on over 200stations. Skope Magazine states Matt “would impress fans of artists such as John Mayer, Tom Petty and Jason Mraz” and CMJ predicts, “Acoustic-wielding, Boston-Based singer songwriter Matt Shwachman will be giving … Five For Fighting a run for their money.”

His most recent album is “Uncharted Territory” and MSB is currently in therecording studio working on their new CD due out in early 2010. Matt waxes philosophic about his recent successes as a “growth process that brings fulfillment, and in order to attain any sense of it, it must be earned.” Catch the Matt Shwachman Band performing this month in the city of Worcester: Saturday the 2^nd at Galway Bay Irish Pub, Saturday the 9^th at Boston Billiards, or Friday the 29th at Sakura Tokyo.

http://www.blackstonevalleytribune.com/pdf/BLA.2010.01.01.pdf

MSB will be playing one of Boston’s finest venues for NYE – Cheer’s, located at 1 Faneuil Hall Marketplace. This is a 21+ event and the cover is only $10 for a Boston NYE event, which also comes with a midnight toast.

MATT SHWACHMAN
Uncharted Territory
12-song CD
We are indeed all searching for something and according to his one-sheet, Matt Shwachman is seeking “melody, motion, and fulfillment of the mind.” His contemplative, soulful lyrics are alive with philosophical themes, yet maintain a straightforward approach. In this way, audiences of any generation can easily relate: there is no guesswork. Irony and metaphors are simply not present here. Instead, listeners are greeted with simple, inspirational messages of hope. Gentle, melodic grooves are reminiscent of John Mayer’s debut album, Room for Squares, as well as the Dave Matthews Band. With tunes such as these, it’s no wonder Shwachman has been featured in a variety of places—on over 150 college radio stations, as well as the television series, One Tree Hill. Here’s to many more! Uncharted Territory is a solid, likeable effort—ear pleasing with a coffee-shop ambiance. (Julia R. DeStefano)

http://www.thenoise-boston.com/content/blogcategory/3/17/

“Wait for Me” (a.k.a ”Hold On”) will be featured on MTV’s the “Real World Cancun” season finale tonight, Wedensday Sept 9 at 10 PM!

http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/rw_cancun/series.jhtml

Boston Globe Magazine 8/29/09

PLAZA SWEET

We are searching for something, right? Some of just want a good piece of apple pie, but for the Matt Shwachman Band (Above), its a search for melody and motion. The New England acoustic guitar-driven pop/rock group coheadlines tomorrow with Brothers McCann a blend of pop, folk, and soul with killer harmonies. The music is part of a the free Rock the Plaza music series at Patriot Place. Aug 30 at 2 pm, weather permitting. Free.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Music in the park
Newton Hill, Elm Park concert series ready to roll

By Nancy Sheehan TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
nsheehan@telegram.com

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July 14: Matt Shwachman
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July 9: Beatles for Sale
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July 16: Dennis Brennan
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Newton Hill will be alive with the sound of music on Tuesdays while down below, in the more visited part of Elm Park, summer concerts have long been one of our favorite things on sultry Thursday nights (assuming we even have any sultry nights this rain-soaked year).

Both Elm Park locations are about to kick off their respective free summer music series. Newton Hill is first out of the gate with Hat On Drinking Wine slated to perform at 6:30 tonight (Tuesday).

Elm Park (down at the Highland Street at Park Avenue part) will start shakin’ at 6:30 p.m. July 9 with the crowd-pleasing cover band Beatles for Sale. Come back again July 16 for Boston music legend Dennis Brennan, who will bring his whole band out west here with him. It will be Brennan’s first appearance in the park series. Cliff Goodwin, the series organizer and well-known guitarist, snagged him for the lineup after seeing Brennan at the House of Blues in Boston, where he opened for the J. Geils Band.

“I was blown away with what Dennis did at House of Blues,” Goodwin said. “I hadn’t seen him in years and I always thought of him more as a solo act, but he had a band with him and he’ll have the band at the park, which will be great.”

Here is the rest of the lineup for the Thursday night Elm Park series, presented by Park Spirit, a citizen friends-of-the-park group: The Valves July 23; Worcester Jazz Orchestra July 30; The Dinosaurs Aug. 6; The Red Riders Aug. 13.

How does Goodwin go about selecting bands to please just about everyone in a public park?

“I’m thinking ‘great entertainers that will satisfy everyone from 8 to 80,’ ” he said. He believes he has met that goal with the tuneful roster he has put together. “It’s fantastic,” he said. “It’s got a little bit of everything. Obviously we know where the Beatles are coming from. The Valves are just a great rhythm and blues horn band. Dennis Brennan is a true talent. The Worcester Jazz Orchestra speaks for itself. The Dinosaurs are just a great fun band and the Red Riders are jump blues. There’s not a downer in the bunch.”

Meanwhile, up at the Newton Square rotary, the Tuesday night music club has about 300 or so enthusiastic members and everyone is invited to join. The Newton Hill Concert Series, though smaller in scale than the Elm Park one, is a neighborhood tradition the whole city can share. The line-up includes always-popular bands, most of which have some kind of Newton Square connection. Many have members who live in the neighborhood.

In addition to the music series, there also is a cross country race every Tuesday in August at the same time. The reason for all the running is that the Friends of Newton Hill, which presents the concert series, wants to show off the lesser known heights of their namesake knoll, which rises fairly steeply behind the rotary area.

“It’s in beautiful condition,” series organizer Luke Robert said, of the once neglected area. “Some guys in our group actually go up and mow the top so it’s pretty clean.”

You could go for a nice stroll on the knoll, or you could challenge yourself and run.

“We’re just trying to promote the hill and get people up there,” Robert said. “Rich Lemerise, who is with Central Mass Striders and lives in the neighborhood, thought it might be nice to do a cross-country race, so we started that in conjunction with some concert nights so we’d have a lot of people at the bottom and a lot of people running around the top and just creating a little atmosphere.”

And, if you’re not huffing and puffing too hard, you might be able to hear the strains of some fine music emanating from the bands below.

June 30, Hat On Drinking Wine; July 7, Dog House Flowers; July 14, Matt Shwachman; July 21, Swing Dixie; July 28, Far from Eden; Aug. 4, Kids Under the Carpet; Aug. 11, TBA. All shows start at 6:30 p.m.

http://www.telegram.com/article/20090630/NEWS/906300402

MSB to play Skope Live at Copperfields Boston. They will be supporting Keith Kane of Vertical Horizon. Also on the bill Meet the Day and Howard Jennings. Part of the proceeds going to the Jimmy Fund!