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About Me

Matthew Semenic was born in the small chicago suburb of Lemont. Growing up on his dads' awesome collection of vinyls from the 60's and 70's, and his brothers amazing indie rock collection, Matthew had a wide variety of influences. Lemont may have been a small town but so much unbelieveable talent came out of it, and continues to do so. Great musicians, writers, vocalists, and audio wizards such as Pete Krisciunus, Brian Pawlikowski, Dave Delosier, Jim O'neil, Mike McCutheon, Matt Phelan, Anthony Gervasio, Mike Wiklatz, Joe Etzkorn, Johnny Ekkart and so many others(too many to name). These were some of Matthews' earliest encouters with true talent, and influenced a passion for music in him. Matthew had been writing poetry since the age of 12. His dad always had guitars around the house, his whole life. At 13, Matthew picked up a guitar and started fooling around with it and taught himself to play over the years but, not much happened for a while. At age 17, Matthew was singing with long time friend, Joe Flood, and recording on an old Tascam analog 4-track recorder. That's when it was discovered that he had a voice. So he took his poetry, picked up that guitar (1965 Alvarez Yari acoustic), and wrote his first song, "So What" . Since then Matthew has written over 200 poems and 30 songs, and keeps writing and exploring the depths of music, heart, soul, mind, and experience. So many other great artists and musicians have become close friends to Matthew, and the talent from the southwest suburbs just keeps exploding into this oddity of a beautiful chicago scene. This is only the beginning of something great. Peace, Love, Light, And Expression to all who grace this page. Your support and friendship make this experience all the more sweeter.Myspace Contact Tables

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Member Since: 12/15/2005
Band Members: Matthew Semenic
Influences: beck, radiohead/thom yorke, ween, pavement, jeff buckley, arcade fire, m. ward, nick drake, aphex twin, wilco, bright-eyes, john spencers blues explosion, al green, muddy waters, marvin gaye, d'angelo, anything mike patton does(faith no more, mr. bungle, fantomas, tomahawk, lovage, peeping tom), postal service, sebadoh, bob dylan, the mars volta, trans am, braniac, dinosaur jr., five style, the meters, shellac, mountain goats, greatful dead, garcia/grisman/rice, phish, beastie boys, cold play, spoon, smog, jolie holland, white stripes, bowie, talking heads/david byrne, beach boys/brian wilson, pete krisciunas, the fake bunt, dimestore floozy, lauryn hill, red hot chili peppers, the strokes, guided by voices, air, atmosphere, stereo lab, the postal service, g. love and the special sauce, sufjan stevens, tortoise, chemical brothers, modest mouse, coltrane, miles davis, belle and sebastian, badly drawn boy, jamiroquai, flaming lips, tribe called quest, the sea and cake, the silver jews, gordon downie/tragically hip, palace/will oldham, bradley nowell, norah jones, super furry animals, superchunk, natalie merchant, system of a down, iron and wine, devendra banhart, son volt, number one cup, folk implosion/lou barlow, the doors, the shins, jude, mos def, the lilys, frank zappa, ravi shankaar, elf power, the jesus lizard, s.t.p., jack johnson, low, dave matthews/tim reynolds, johnny cash, digable planets, 2 skinee j's, dj shadow, cut chemist, kid koala, robert johnson, cream, blind faith, derrick and the dominoes, traffic, jimi hendrix, the beatles, rolling stones, outkast, the orb, royal trux, michael jackson-thriller, prince- purple rain, tenacious d, nirvana, urge overkill, gorillaz, blur, donavan, alicia keys, tabla beat science, frank sinatra, stevie wonder, portishead, sneeker pimps, neil young/crazy horse/crosby/stills/nash, billy joel-stranger, buffalo springfield, ccr, e.l.o, herbie hancock, madeski/ martin/and wood, black crowes, the kings of leon, ben harper, sarah mcgaughlin, led zepplin, van morrison, elvis costello, kings of leon, clap your hands say yeah, tibetan chants, american indian chants, singing bowls of shang-ri-la, etc., etc., etc...
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Harmonizing with the Universe

Harmonizing with the UniverseThe Benefits of Singing Singing is an act of vibration. It takes music from the realm of the unformed-- whether that is in your mind or from that magical space of inspira...
Posted by Matthew Semenic on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:36:00 PST