Matt DeMello
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.
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“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'.”
“A compilation of live, backing track performance recordings from various performances by the self proclaimed 'singer-songcyclist' at Green Kill Gallery in Kingston, NY.”
“A special edition of a 'synth orchestral' marvel...”
“A glam band ripping through Rocky Horror and Sonics covers.”
“songs performed at various headlining shows on the Sidewalk stage”
“DeMello's first streaming festival”
“A hodge-podge of studio outtakes and demo tracks”
“irreverence, absolute disdain, and jaunty theatrics”
“the Beatles' 'Abbey Road' album end-to-end”
“lounge music from some psychedelic future”
![Cassandra Abandoned, I & II [Marion's Version] by Matt DeMello cover art](https://getmusicfm-production.s3.amazonaws.com/release-artwork/1160.jpg)
“A spectacular one-man cabaret show”
Earlier releases
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“jazz standards and lite krautrock jams”
“jazz standards and lite krautrock jams”
“jazz standards and lite krautrock jams”
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