Matt Shea invented hobo-hop.  DIY may now be the digital recipe for rap success, but Buck 65 was doing things himself a long time before mp3s and iTunes. Perhaps it was growing up in Mount Uniacke, Canada, a place that makes Yelawolf’s Gadsden look like New York City, or perhaps it’s just his supposedly shy […]

ZIP:  Matt Shea’s “Disassociated Summer Jam” The thought of summer in Brisbane is better than the actual season you’re backhanded come October or November. The first few weeks are fantastic: you bust out the shorts and barbeques, sipping beers and vodka tonics. But by February-March, the whole thing gets a little tiresome. Wetting your underpants […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwgfvo9qOTA Matt Shea typically eats popcorn and lobs rotten fruits at the screen in the back row of 20/20 Filmsight,  If you read this site regularly, you’re probably a) familiar with Faye Reagan, before or after the fact, and b) a little hardcore about your music. Recent years haven’t been kind to the psyche of […]

  By the time you read this, Jeff will be entrenched in the madness that is the All Good festival. Whether it will be All Good remains to be seen and will be likely determined by the amount of illicit substances obtainable prior to sets by George Clinton, Femi Kuti, and Furthur. Thankfully, Matt Shea, […]

Matt Shea does most of his damage at Movie Critic.Au. You might remember him from such PotW posts as A Bluffer’s Guide to Analog Turntablism and The Hilarious Hijinks of Oingo Boingo. It may no longer be fashionable to have that Ninja Tune poster pasted to your wall, but there’s no doubt the London-based independent […]

Matt Shea is an occasional contributor to waycooljnr and a regular contributor to The Cool Hunter, Scene Magazine and a part-time copywriter for the man. He can be contacted at [email protected] In the digital age of music, turntablism has remained a bastion of the analogue, a smoky backroom where arguments over white labels, pick-ups and […]