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Things have been a little crazy ’round these parts lately, so I’ve been late on a few updates. Here’s the scoop:

There were some issues with the pressing of the MATTOWAX EP, but we finally got those ironed out and the CDs should be in-hand this week and off to iTunes and the rest by early next week. Thanks for your patience and interest! For newly remastered sound clips straight from the recording, go to www.mattowax.com/sounds - you will soon be able hear the full tunes at the MATTOWAX myspace page: www.myspace.com/mattowax.

In other news, last night we recorded the first podcast since the arrival of Rocco Marrone - but I didn’t mention on my site the fact that we filled the absence with another “best of” show featuring interviews with Amiina, Schoolly D, and Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello - or podcast 43, including an interview with Chris Harding of We The Robots! Click the image below to check it out…

Hi all - the first MATTOWAX EP, titled “Most Likely To Succeed”, is finished and about to be shipped off to the presses - both real and digital. A rare few promotional copies are being pressed onto CD, but the official release is digital-only and should be up on iTunes (and other purveyors of digital goodness) hopefully sooner rather than later (however, it can sometimes take up to a couple months…gulp…). Still, clips can be heard at the MATTOWAX website, and new music is coming soon!

Also, a live version of the group has been practicing as of late (it looks an awful lot like the Levelheads of yore!), so we may be taking the show on the road as early as the Spring.

Anyway, we CAN give you a sneak peek at the album artwork - recently finished in the nick of time by soon-to-be-papa Todd Marrone. Check it out!

Woo, there’s more fresh new Used Wigs podcast out there than you can handle! The first cast of ‘08 is up (recorded in late ‘07, natch) - and it happens to be one of my favorites…I had a lot of fun editing this one, and it’s chock full of typical nonsense from the core crew. Click the image below, and enjoy!

Happy New Year, y’all! I didn’t mention it earlier due to the holiday craziness, but Podcast 41 is up on Used Wigs Radio - and #42 is edited and will be following shortly. P41 is a fun group cast with the usual suspects plus writers Scott Shrake and Jim Gladstone - lots of laughs in this one. Enjoy!

That’s right - we hit a major milestone…40 podcasts! To celebrate, we had a repeat visit from everybody’s favorite putty mogul, Crazy Aaron. Good times were had by all - click on the image below to get to the ‘cast.

OK, the Zombie short-film I did with the After School Specialists is now up on YouTube and can be seen by clicking here. You’ll hear my music throughout, and also see cameos by some of your favorite Hulihees - Todd Marrone, Russell Gellman, and Ron Foligno. I’m also in there as a one-armed zombie, but only for a quick flash in the middle during the “gauntlet” scene (the second zombie that the main character avoids - right after the bloody nurse zombie) - and then again during the end title (seen below - I’m all the way to the left).

This is the film that won us 1st place in the Dogfish Head competition - great stuff!

Used Wigs Radio podcast 39 is now available - it’s an old school ‘cast, with just the three of us talking/arguing about music, pop culture, and other nonsense…including, in this case, dangerous deoderants. I don’t have the heart to post the supporting picture Jeff is using for the latest cast on my own site, but by clicking the link above you’ll see the latest that his madenss has generated. Enjoy!

As some of you may know, recently the Used Wigs Radio team decided to pull our old shows from iTunes and off the Used Wigs server since we were a bit concerned about the RIAA coming down on people for copyright issues. While 95% of what we did in the past was done with permission, well, we just didn’t want to take any chances going forward. So, shows 1-36 evaporated into thin air.

In some ways that’s a good thing since the first few shows were anything but polished, and now we’ve really hit our stride. However, it does mean that some great guest spots got removed - although now it just gives us a chance to have them back on the show! Still, we didn’t want the celebrity interviews we’ve done to just vanish - so, we’ve got two “Best of Used Wigs Radio Interviews” shows in the can - the first of which can now be downloaded from www.usedwigsradio.com.

The first “Best of” features Todd’s interviews with comedic heavyweights Jim Gaffigan and Mike Birbiglia - tune in and enjoy!

Been wondering just what this MATTOWAX project of mine sounds like? Well, wonder no more friends - clips from the new EP are now up on the MATTOWAX site, and can be found on the “Sounds” page. You’ll be able to download 30 second clips of each of the new tunes, as well as a bunch of clips from my back catalog as well as Russell G.’s - that material is also going to be made available through the MATTOWAX name, although it won’t be released officially.

Some nuggest there that you won’t hear anywhere else include clips of the “Ocean Mix” instrumental only version of “Most Likely To Succeed” as well as a newer version of “Whiteoak” (which was on Centerlight back in 2003) with a full band arrangement Mighty cool!

Jump right to the sounds page by clicking the logo below.