Matt Maeson makes songs for those moments when you need them the most. No matter how fast life goes, he can get a grip on it and slow it down just enough to sing about it. The Virginia-born and Nashville-based multiplatinum singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist transforms complicated feelings, uneasy thoughts, and self-doubt into arrestingly catchy alternative anthems anchored by relatable and raw emotion. Throughout the last decade, Matt has documented life’s twists and turns on tape. In 2019, he struck a chord and made history with his first LP, Bank on the Funeral. The album’s two Platinum-certified singles—“Cringe” and “Hallucinogenics” [feat. Lana Del Rey]—each climbed to #1 at Alternative, elevating him as “the first ever male solo artist to log two #1 Alternative hits from a full-length debut LP.” On its heels, 2022’s Never Had To Leave incited critical acclaim from American Songwriter, Consequence of Sound, and more. He emerged as the rare talent equally comfortable supporting Zach Bryan in arenas or lending his voice to tracks alongside Gryffin, Illenium, and Chelsea Cutler. He also embarked on the sold-out acoustic That’s My Cue Tour captured on his 2024 live record, That’s My Cue: A Solo Experience. Along the way, Matt got married, moved from Austin to Nashville, and became a dad. He processes all of these pivotal changes out loud on his new single, "Everlasting" [Atlantic Records]. Frustrated and confused, Matt wrestles with leaving it all behind only to dust himself off and exhale a mantra-like chant through a haze of strings, “Grit your teeth and make us proud. Fake it when you don’t know how.”

About Sam Macpherson:

Legendary poet Allen Ginsberg passed away on April 5, 1997 in Manhattan, NY. Just across the Hudson River in New Jersey, Sam MacPherson was welcomed into the world on the very same day. Make of that what you will. 

Raised in Red Bank, New Jersey, twenty minutes from Asbury Park, deep in the same Springsteen-soaked stretch of shore that turns ordinary kids into storytellers, the 28-year-old singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist carries that no-nonsense Jersey spirit into everything he makes. He doesn't write music that's safe. The songs are honest, direct, and emotionally heavy without being overwrought. 

His debut album American Dream Trajectory has attracted a devout fan base and earned critical acclaim. What anchors all of it is something harder to manufacture than a following or a press run. MacPherson writes about the American dream the way someone writes about a relative they loved and lost — with grief, with clarity, and without sentimentality. Not the postcard version. The version where you grow up being told the finish line exists, then spend your twenties watching it move. Where your parents asked when you'd arrive, and your generation is still asking if. Where survival started to feel like the ambition itself. 

He doesn't position himself above any of it. The music comes from inside that confusion — from Jersey, from immigrant stories, from the specific ache of wanting something you were promised and finding the promise was never quite yours to collect. American Dream Trajectory isn't a protest record or a pity record. It's a reckoning. The kind that only comes from someone who's lived close enough to the dream to know exactly where it falls short — and honest enough to say so out loud. 
His live show at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park drew critical praise from The Aquarian, and the footage from that night makes clear why: this is an artist who plays like he means it, in a room he was born to fill. That kind of presence doesn't stay contained for long. MacPherson added 40,000 Instagram followers in a 60-day stretch — not through a campaign, but through the kind of word-of-mouth that can't be manufactured. 

Sam MacPherson has been doing the work for years. The moment has been a long time