There are hundreds of colorful lightbulbs behind the stage of the dive-y Brooklyn venue Baby’s All Right, winking at the crowd gathered to see rock duo Mattiel. Then, suddenly, the room goes dark and a new image comes up to replace the lights: the projected face of Jeff Goldblum.
“He came and met me in the bathroom,” croons singer Atina Mattiel Brown, also known mononymously as Mattiel. “A little like a younger Jeff Goldblum/About to take my heart and break it pretty soon.”
Beside her, multi-instrumentalist Jonah Swilley...
“He came and met me in the bathroom,” croons singer Atina Mattiel Brown, also known mononymously as Mattiel. “A little like a younger Jeff Goldblum/About to take my heart and break it pretty soon.”
Beside her, multi-instrumentalist Jonah Swilley...
- 3/23/2022
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Lauded producer/songwriter Linda Perry is teaming up with philanthropist Alisha Ballard for EqualizeHer, an initiative working to bring gender equity to the music industry. It launches at South by Southwest with panels and showcases running March 15 and 16 at Lustre Pearl Rainey in Austin, Texas. The events are open to the public.
“The imbalance of women represented in the music industry has gone on far too long. Alisha and I (and so many others) share in this passion to create a more equitable music business across all aspects of the music industry,...
“The imbalance of women represented in the music industry has gone on far too long. Alisha and I (and so many others) share in this passion to create a more equitable music business across all aspects of the music industry,...
- 3/9/2022
- by Althea Legaspi
- Rollingstone.com
Nearly 30 years ago, Jonathan Richman asked how the Velvet Underground got their sound. The band Mattiel seem to have cracked the code on “Millionaire,” the latest single to be released off the Atlanta group’s excellent Satis Factory album. Amid brittle guitars, laconically Lou Reed-esque “bah-bah-bah” backup vocals, and a thwapping backbeat, singer Mattiel Brown channels Nico with her gorgeously yearning, full-voiced alto range, as sings about her poor lot in life.
Brown has said that the song was inspired by “high expectations and empty promises,” the exact mathematical...
Brown has said that the song was inspired by “high expectations and empty promises,” the exact mathematical...
- 11/22/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
With a cutting garage-rock guitar riff and vocals that squeal with excitement, Mattiel sound like they’re embracing their very own manifest destiny — or, at least, making fun of dudes who think that way — on “Je Ne Me Connais Pas,” the latest single from the Atlanta band’s upcoming Satis Factory album. Singer Mattiel Brown toys with toxic masculinity throughout the three-minute song, declaring herself a “Lone Star Man” who’s “gonna get kicked right off my high horse.” The punch line is the chorus: “I don’t know myself” in French.
- 5/21/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
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