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Matt DeMello

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Matt DeMello is a New York-based songwriter and producer whose sprawling independent discography blends anti-folk intimacy, orchestral indie rock, glam-pop maximalism, and emotionally charged DIY storytelling. Originally growing out of the Providence noise, hardcore, and math-rock scenes before being sharpened in the emotionally direct open-mic culture surrounding New York’s legendary SideWalk Cafe, his work moves fluidly between communal live-band chaos, surreal humor, political anxiety, children’s music, and beautiful mistakes that somehow hold together emotionally anyway.

Drawing from influences like Bruce Springsteen, Frank Zappa, The Replacements, and R. Stevie Moore, DeMello has developed a cult following through records that treat music less as fixed canon and more as an ongoing communal world built around memory, humor, emotional overload, and staying human together.

Matt DeMello - Canaries for the Cauldron: A B-Sides Collection
Matt DeMello

Canaries for the Cauldron: A B-Sides Collection

"A 'truly unhinged' collection of B-sides and covers left on the cutting room floor of DeMello's 2022 crossover pop LP 'Confetti in a Coalmine'."

garage rock emo pop punk classical soft jazz ...

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Matt DeMello - Live at Green Kill: 2023-4
Matt DeMello

Live at Green Kill: 2023-4

"A compilation of live, backing track performance recordings from various performances by the self proclaimed 'singer-songcyclist' at Green Kill Gallery in Kingston, NY."

fusion jazz pop indie prog singer-songcycle

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Matt DeMello - There's No Place Like Nowhere: Ten Years Later
Matt DeMello

There's No Place Like Nowhere: Ten Years Later

"A special edition of a 'synth orchestral' marvel..."

fusion jazz pop indie prog singer-songcycle

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Matt DeMello - Lantern Halloween 10-27-17 / Strychnine (Sonics Cover) - Single
Matt DeMello

Lantern Halloween 10-27-17 / Strychnine (Sonics Cover) - Single

"A glam band ripping through Rocky Horror and Sonics covers."

halloween covers live bootleg glam rock showtunes

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Matt DeMello - Jennifer's Appendix, Vols. 3 & 4: 'A Sidewalker's Sweet Revenge'
Matt DeMello

Jennifer's Appendix, Vols. 3 & 4: 'A Sidewalker's Sweet Revenge'

"songs performed at various headlining shows on the Sidewalk stage"

fusion jazz roots rock great american songbook prog pop singer-songwriter

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Matt DeMello - Jennifer's Appendix, Vol. 2: 'The VoidFest 2020 Set That Should Have Been' (Streaming in Quarantine: 04​/​20​/​20)
Matt DeMello

Jennifer's Appendix, Vol. 2: 'The VoidFest 2020 Set That Should Have Been' (Streaming in Quarantine: 04​/​20​/​20)

"DeMello's first streaming festival"

adjacentwave electronic-orchestral kraut rock lullabies

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Matt DeMello - Jennifer's Appendix, Vol. 1: 'To the Person I'll Always Be' (​.​.​.​Revisited)
Matt DeMello

Jennifer's Appendix, Vol. 1: 'To the Person I'll Always Be' (​.​.​.​Revisited)

"A hodge-podge of studio outtakes and demo tracks"

all-purpose prog pop genre-skeptic music history humor singer-songwriter

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Matt DeMello - Celebrating Sleepy Time, Volume the Third!
Matt DeMello

Celebrating Sleepy Time, Volume the Third!

"jazz standards and lite krautrock jams"

roots music children's music power pop

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Matt DeMello - Celebrating Sleepy Time, Vol. 2
Matt DeMello

Celebrating Sleepy Time, Vol. 2

"jazz standards and lite krautrock jams"

jazz standards kraut rock children's music

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Matt DeMello - Celebrating Sleepy Time, Vol. 1
Matt DeMello

Celebrating Sleepy Time, Vol. 1

"jazz standards and lite krautrock jams"

jazz standards kraut rock children's music

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Matt DeMello - Jennifer's Appendix, Vol. 7: Reimagining 'Abbey Road'
Matt DeMello

Jennifer's Appendix, Vol. 7: Reimagining 'Abbey Road'

"the Beatles' 'Abbey Road' album end-to-end"

vaudeville showtunes post-war pop synth-pop prog ...

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Matt DeMello - There's No Place Like Nowhere
Matt DeMello

There's No Place Like Nowhere

"lounge music from some psychedelic future"

fusion jazz pop indie prog singer-songcycle

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Matt DeMello - Cassandra Abandoned, I & II [Marion's Version]
Matt DeMello

Cassandra Abandoned, I & II [Marion's Version]

"A spectacular one-man cabaret show"

post-christmas psych prog garage rock noise ...

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Matt DeMello - Confetti in a Coalmine
Matt DeMello

Confetti in a Coalmine

"irreverence, absolute disdain, and jaunty theatrics"

genre-jumping song-cycle prog pop

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