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 grew up in and around Ventura, California and now resides in North Portland, Oregon.

Matt Hollywood is an American indie rock guitarist and singer. He was a founding member and leader of the Portland-based indie rock band, The Out Crowd, and was a founding member of the neo-psychedelic rock band, The Brian Jonestown Massacre (The BJM).

The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Hollywood was a member of The Brian Jonestown Massacre for roughly seven years as mainly a bass guitar player, but was also known to play acoustically at times. Over this period, Hollywood contributed many musical ideas to the band. He composed and sang several of The BJM's songs, most notably "Oh Lord", "Maybe Tomorrow", "No Come Down" 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.

He appears on the 2004 documentary DiG! with The BJM, which also includes footage of the onstage altercation that led to his departure from the band.

Post-BJM

Magic Fingers

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

The Out Crowd

Hollywood formed the indie rock band, The Out Crowd, in late 2001 with drummer Stuart Valentine, guitarist Elliott Barnes and tambourine player Sarah Jane.

The group released their debut album Go on, Give a Damn which was produced by Gregg Williams (The Dandy Warhols) in early 2003. Their follow up Then I Saw The Holy City was produced by Brian Coates and released in the fall of 2004. Hollywood confirmed that the band broke up in 2006[1].

The Rebel Drones

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, The Rebel Drones, consist of Dand Lee Strickland, Colin Hegna (of The Brian Jonestown Massacre), Jason "Plucky" Anchondo (of The Warlocks and Spindrift), and William Slater (of Grails).

External links

• Matt Hollywood on MySpace