Mat d. and the Profane Saints: News

Travis Barnes was nice enough to post a video of "B-Movie Queen" from our recent show at the Chesterfield on YouTube! Thanks Travis!

We've updated our links section- be sure to check out or friends too!

We'd like to thank the fabulous Chesterfield, Stealing Mercury, Brian Ross and Lindsay Rey at KOOL 99.5 AND everyone who made our show a HUGE success on Saturday night. It was wonderful to see so many new and familiar faces in the crowd. Hope to see you all at our next gig at the Dry Creek Music festival in Hawarden, IA on May 30. More info about the show coming soon!

Big Thank you to Brian Ross and Lindsay Rey at KOOL 99.5 in Sioux City for inviting Mat to perform live in studio! Good times! To hear the interview and performance visit www.kool995.com and visit the RnR page on their website. We hope to do it again sometime.

Kim at Meet Virginia-Sioux City's home of Coffee, Food and Art is now selling copies of Mat d's award winning solo releases "Gasoline Rattle" and "Merciful 66" Mat will perform solo at Meet Virginia on April 24th and May 15th. Visit Meet Virginia for a hip atmosphere, works by local artists, great coffee and live music 306 Virginia Street in Downtown Sioux City IA

Sioux City Roots Rock band Mat d. and the Profane Saints will release a free, limited edition CD at their Sioux City March 14th performance at the Chesterfield. 100 copies of a new CD titled "B-Movie Queen" will handed out at no cost to the first 100 people at the show. Frontman Mathew deRiso says "We wanted to give something to all of the good folks that have supported us in the past few years. We decided that pressing a limited quantity of discs to hand out at the show would be a cool, sort of collectible idea that would feature some brand new music from a couple of new CDs we're working on right now. It's the best 'thank you' to our fans we could think of."
Mat d. and band have been busy recording two CDs slated for release 2009. The first album being a Profane Saints venture titled "Dirt Town City Limits" is nearly complete and will be released in Spring . "It's the best thing we've done so far" Mat says "The songs range from an early punk sound to straight forward rock n' roll all presented in our Americana/Roots style; We're really looking forward to it's release." As for the other CD, Mat will also release his third solo album "Plank Road Drag" in the Fall. "Plank Road Drag will expand on the sound of my last two solo discs with a much more upbeat, fuller acoustic sound featuring mandolin, banjo and slide guitar verses the stripped down voice and guitar approach. The idea is to release a few CDs that will target both of our audiences. One for fans of our amped up, electric sound and the other for acoustic/roots enthusiaists."
The band will hand out 100 tickets on March 14th that fans can redeem at the group's merch table once the band kicks off the show. 7 of the 100 tickets will also land a few lucky folks additional free merch. The free CDs are first come, first serve and will only be available at the March 14th performance. Local rockers Stealing Mercury will open the show at 9:30pm, with the Profane Saints taking the stage at 11pm.

Mat d. and the Profane Saints now have a home on Facebook as well. If you have a facebook account, become a fan to get recent updates and to hear new music as it's released. A link to our Facebook page is in the links section of our website.

More lyrics have been posted on the music/listen page. The album "Brand New Faith" was added today.

Lyrics to all ten songs off of the 2006 album "small Town Burning..." are now on display in the music section.

The lyrics from the new Cds in the works are now on display on our website. Visit the music section and click on the tile of the song(s) to check them out.

The new song "Spark Plug Rain" is now streaming on the website. This song will appear on the upcoming solo CD in the works titled "Plank Road Drag" along with nine brand new acoustic tracks. The song features the clawhammer banjo swtylings of Mat d. and the resophonic slide guitar work of Mr. Kurt Mullins. Stay tuned for more new music soon!

We're proud to announce that Mat d. was awarded Folk Rising's Album of the Year 2008 for his solo CD "Merciful 66" Mat was fortunate enough to have earned this award in 2007 for the album "Gasoline Rattle" Two years in a row ain't bad! Much appreciation to Gary at Folk Rising for his enthusiasm and support of Americana and Folk music. THANK YOU FOLK RISING! Here's what they had to say - Folk Rising™ Music Productions, LLC (Folk Rising)'s 2008 Folk Album of the year is awarded to Mat D for his Merciful 66 album. Gary Kappenman, A&R for Folk Rising, stated "as I sit here listening to Mat’s Merciful 66 album for about the 20th time, I’m considering that reviewers of Mat’s first solo album, Gasoline Rattle, reminded them of a young Steve Earle. While I enjoy listening to Steve Earle’s work, I believe Mat’s new album goes significantly beyond Steve Earle’s work in both the striking imagery of his lyrics and the heartfelt soulfulness he brings to his vocals. If you like Steve Earle’s work, you’ll love Mat’s new Merciful 66 album!”

The song "Ghost of Huddie Ledbetter" will debut on Sioux City's home of Rock n' Roll Z-98 as of this Sunday December 14th. Tune in if you're able!

A raw version of 'The Ghost of Huddie Ledbetter' is now streaming on our music page and on our Myspace page (visit the link in our links section under associated websites) The song is slated to appear on the "Dirt Town City Limits" CD coming in 2009

A brand new studio cut of the song Mudflap Mamma is now on display in the music section of our website. Enjoy!

Thanks so much to everyone who came out to the show last night at the Chesterfield. Special thanks to Rick Swanson the and to Burlap Wolf King for making it another great night to remember.

Jesse Claeys was kind enough to invite Mat d. and Kurt Mullins down to the Sioux City Journal for a recent interview. Followig the interview (which is available on Jesse's blog the Heard Mentality on the Journal's website) Mat recorded a live performance of the song 'Metropolicana' from his latest CD 'Merciful 66' The video is streaming online at www.SiouxCityJournal.com Enjoy!

The Saints wish to thank Chris Radloff and his lovely wife for doing such a great job on the new promo photos. Chris runs Hippie Boy Design - a booming web design and photography company here in Sioux City. Not only did he break us into a truck yard on a Sunday afternoon in the rain for some shots with a classic white freightliner, he also captured what we feel are some damn cool photos of three guys with faces for radio and made us look as good as humanly possible- with the help of photo-shop of course. (The fourth and only exception was Jeff, who looked quite dapper in his clothes-pin tie and vest. Why the hell didn't we put him out in front???) And, even though he couldn't seem to get a smile out of Mat (who swears he was smiling the whole time) We'd like to direct you to his site in case anyone of our readers needs a professional or personal website and/or professional photography (and kick ass senior pics from what we're told) to give this long haired friend of ours a call. Visit Chris at www.HippieBoyDesign.com You'll be glad you did.

Ray Randall at www.AmericanaRoots.com was kind enough to include the track "Metropolicana" from Mat d's latest solo CD Merciful 66 on the latest edition of the Americana Roots Review Podcast (68 to be exact) The podcast features new music from 4-5 bands per episode. You can download and listen to the podcast at http://www.americanaroots.com/podcasts/

We've posted paypal links from our friends at Tradebit.com in our Purchase section of the website. If you have a paypal account you can now purchase our music directly from us right here coutesy of Tradebit.com, a leader in digital products and downloads. The Mermaid Ep, Small Town Burning, Brand New Faith, and Mat's solo albums Gasoline Rattle and Merciful 66 are all currently available.

'Drive Thru Romance' the long awaited follow up tp the 2006 LP "Small Town Burning..." will not see the light of day and has been scrapped. After rehearsing new, stronger material with the line-up featuring Kurt Mullins on guitar and newest member Bob Birch on Bass, the band has found it's stride and will soon begin work on a full length CD with the working title "Dirt Town City Limits" While some of the music intended for release on 'DTR' will be present on the new CD- all of the tracks from the ground up will be re-recorded and rearranged to reflect the band's evolving and grittier new Americana sound. It's more country, with punk, jazz and blues influences that we look forward to showcasing at the Chesterfield in Sioux City on October 25th.
We've also updated the tracks in the music section. A few live tracks have been added (and removed!) largely in part and thanks to our new friend Lee who was kind enough to send us a bootleg recording of our August 1 performance at the 29th Annual Sioux River Folk Fest. We've also updated the links section of our website as well.
Hope to see many of you at a live performance sometime soon!

Muster on over to our myspace page and you'll find we have 2 songs available for free download. Visit www.myspace.com/matdamericana to download the tracks. Enjoy!

Merciful 66 is back in stock at CDBABY and is now available worldwide at iTunes.com! If you prefer an alternate digital outlet - CDBABY also offers the digital album at www.cdbaby.com/matd3 Look for Merciful 66 at other premium digital music outlets in the next few weeks and months.

The warehouse at CDBABY.com has informed us that we have SOLD OUT of Merciful 66! A new shipment of CDs are on their way to their warehouse and the album should be available for purchase by the end of the week. You can also purchase the digital/mp3 album at CDBABY if you'd rather not wait til then. Visit www.CDBABY.com/Matd3 to order.

Well, actually it's four out of five carrots. (Carrots-Stars-same thing!) But we were sure pleased to hear that the good folks at BluesBunny.com in the UK dug the latest CD "Merciful 66" To read the full review visit www.BluesBunny.com or visit the press section of our website and click the link titled 'reviews'.