Matt Hollywood

This article is about the American guitarist. For the Australian magician, see Matt Hollywood (magician).

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Matt Hollywood in DiG!

Matthew Hollywood was born in Syracuse, New York in 1973. He resides in North Portland, Oregon.

Matt Hollywood is an American indie rock guitarist and singer. He is the founding member of the Portland-based band, The Out Crowd and was, for roughly seven years, a bass guitar player in The Brian Jonestown Massacre (The BJM).

He appears on the 2004 documentary DiG! with The BJM, which includes footage of the onstage altercation that led to his departure from the band. He composed and sang several of The BJM's songs, notably "Oh Lord", "Maybe Tomorrow" and "Not if You Were the Last Dandy on Earth"; the latter of which not only for parodied The Dandy Warhols' single Not if You Were the Last Junkie on Earth, and led many people to believe the 'Warhols and The BJM were fighting. Hollywood has said of the song: "It always amazed me how this song got taken as evidence that Anton (Newcombe) was 'stalking' the Dandys - since he didn't even write it." The song was featured in the Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers.

Before forming The Out Crowd, Hollywood was in Magic Fingers with Eric Hedford (of The Dandy Warhols and We Are Telephone) and Spike Keating (Swoon 23, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club).

Of his current work, Hollywood says,

We plan on doing some recording in the near future. Beyond that nothing's been discussed. I'm currently writing and rehearsing an album I hope to get recorded within the next few months with a new band. So far it's some dark, heavy, spacey stuff in a suicide/spacemen 3 vein with a few moments of quiet sadness and hope for better days, with the odd krautrock sex jam thrown in here and there. Pretty much reflecting the state of my mixed-up life right now.

Hollywood's new band consist of members of the Warlocks and the Brian Jonestown Massacre.

External links

• Matt Hollywood on MySpace