Major Matt Mason USA has been making music since the late 80's. In his father's basement in Shawnee, Kansas (a suburb of Kansas City) Matt would amuse his dog Friskie by lip-synching to Kiss records and hammering out ditties about the threat of nuclear war and peer pressure on a $30 Harmony guitar. While attending the University of Kansas, Matt got his first taste of a thriving underground music scene playing guitar for local punk bands with names like Magic Nose and Dracomagnet that drew from influences like the Butthole Surfers and Jesus Lizard.

In the early 90's, Matt moved to New York City where he found a home in the now infamous East Village DIY Antifolk Community. This unorthodox world of misfit songwriters and lofi amateurs provided Matt with a chance to develop his voice and vent about subjects like the ever changing landscape of New York and relationships with others. After a brief stint as a record store clerk at now defunct Tower Records, he landed a job as an apprentice at a soho based commercial sound facility. For the next five years he would spend his days in a state-of-the-art digital audio facility servicing high profile advertising clients, while his nights were spent plucking out edgy lo-fi acoustic love songs into a boombox in a mouse- infested lower east side apartment.

Flash forward 10 years. Major Matt has evolved from the boombox to a catalog of 5 full length albums: Me Me Me, Honey Are You Ready For the Ballet?, Rivington '94 and Tower Days, and Senile Pie Strive Pip Melancholy. MMM's influences range from Bob Dylan to Sonic Youth. He has established Olive Juice Music: a fully functional recording studio/ independent record label/ online distribution center that he operates out of his NYC apartment with band mate /significant other Nan Turner and cat Gummo (who takes care of the mice). He's produced music with countless artists including Daniel Johnston, Jeffrey Lewis, Kimya Dawson, Adam Green, Seth of Dufus, and Toby Goodshank (The Moldy Peaches). Matt is also a member of the bands Schwervon! and Kansas State Flower. The DIY spirit is a big part of Matt's art and lifestyle as he continues to carve out a niche for truly modern American Folk music.