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Christina Perri - Arms

Mashup of Matt & Kim's "Cameras" and Big Boi's "Shutterbug"
Remixed by Ruwanga Samath

CameraBuggin (Matt & Kim x Big Boi mashup)

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One of the things that’s given The Bearded Man great delight over his incredibly long lifespan is witnessing firsthand how just about every human belief has, when given enough time, been proven to be false. He’s seen people burned at the stake, he’s seen arguments ending in wars and bloodbaths, all because people were sure they were right about something. The sun revolves around the earth… Leeches cure you of disease… I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter is better than real butter… Yep, the human track record is pretty damn bad. We’re basically wrong about everything, but we stubbornly cling to our viewpoints as if they were absolute fact. Mouthwash might actually make your breath worse, fluoride might make your teeth weaker, and just about every other preventative measure we have in places actually causes the thing it’s trying to prevent. As a result, The Bearded Man is pretty fluid in what he believes. He understands that many scientific revelations are more like the fad of the month than fact, and that surely all that will pass in a handful of years. When it comes to sound health, our hero believes in two things one, love has the power to transform. Two, a day by the ocean can cure just about any health problem one might have. Of course, he’s probably entirely wrong about both of those.

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Hotline Bling (feat. Soren Bryce)

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero (RAC Mix)

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Live Trax Vol. 2: Golden Gate Park

Jimi Thing (Live at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, 09.12.04)

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Let Go (feat. Akacia)

From Matt and Kim's album LIGHTNING

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Let’s Go

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Christina Perri - A Thousand Years (Part 2)

For many bands, making music is all about the routine of recording an annual album, or being able to tour in progressively bigger venues.  Not Matt and Kim.  "Our goal is to make music we want to hear," says Matt Johnson, who co-founded the band with Kim Schifino. "When it comes time to make a new album, I'm just so excited, since I know we have all these ideas and I just want to get them out there."  As for the band's extra-emphatic live shows, which these days happen in large venues, he explains, "We've always just really enjoyed playing music, and things have kept growing." 
 
Matt and Kim's enthusiasm comes across loud and clear on the band's last album, Lightning, its most diverse and developed to date.  From the relentless drive of “Now” to the dance-fueled beat of “Let’s Go” to the more contemplative “Ten Dollars I Found,” Lightning is the strongest distillation yet of Matt and Kim’s unique sound: a spunky hybrid of indelible songs, an emphatic beat and almost tangible energy, mixed with the duo’s influence of listening nonstop to Top 40 Hip-Hop and pop-punk.
 
To make the album, Matt and Kim spent six months working in their home studio in Brooklyn, producing the record themselves. Lightning is a touch more minimal than their earlier work – with layers taken away, instead of added, enabling its intense performances and memorable tunes to really come to the forefront. “What’s made the songs on this album really strong is we’ve been able to pull a lot off – to not have so much going on – and still have a strong song,” Kim explains.
 
“It’s easier to make a song with a lot going on,” Matt adds. “It feels very safe. It’s like putting on a lot of clothes: you feel all covered up so no one can judge just one aspect of it, but when you try to break it down to be as simple as can be, you’re really baring it all.  When you can see clearly what’s going on, those are the times that the songs are easiest to connect to.”
 
Connecting with their audience is certainly a key focus for Matt and Kim.  The indie dance duo’s live shows – which are legendary for constant, in-your-face exuberance – feel more like vibrant, sweaty loft parties than traditional concerts, for both audiences and the band. “I think we’ve managed to continue to make them feel intimate,” says Matt. “When we first started playing venues instead of playing on the floor at parties, we tried hard to keep the vibe of ‘we’re all doing this together and having a wild time’ going.  The show is not just the two of us: it’s the 3002 of us, or however big the venue is.”  Or, as in the words of Rolling Stone: “Matt and Kim’s reputation as a live act precedes them – and justifiably so. Simply put, they are a two-person dynamo, frantic, tightly wound, and full of good cheer. Their performances are as physical as they are musical. . . . For sheer adrenaline-per-second, no other band comes close.”

The band started in 2004, essentially by accident when Matt and Kim were art students at the prestigious Pratt Institute, where they studied film and illustration, respectively.  When Kim wanted to learn to play drums and Matt (who'd been in bands before) was getting his head around a new keyboard, the band was born. Since then, they have earned a Gold Record for the upbeat, stick-in-your-head track "Daylight," played festivals like Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Bonnaroo, along with international festivals like V (U.K), Pukkelpop (Belgium), Fuji (Japan), Big Day Out (Australia), Primavera (Spain), Oya (Norway), SWU (Brazil), as well as hundreds of shows. They have won 3 MTV awards: a Breakthrough Video Music Award and mtvU Best Video Woodie Award for “Lessons Learned”, as well as a 2011 award for Best Live Band. Lightning is the band's fourth album, following Sidewalks, Grand, and their self-titled debut.
 
Matt and Kim have always been inspired by Brooklyn’s general urban din as well as the area’s artists, yet Matt points out, “I don’t think a place can define a person. We simply write songs about us and our life so that’s why where we live comes up.”
 
Indeed, there’s something universal about a song with a beat that grabs you, with a great melody, played by a band that simply loves to play music.  And that, in Williamsburg and way beyond, is the key to the universal appeal of Matt and Kim.

CameraBuggin (Matt & Kim x Big Boi mashup)

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