Matthew J Barnhart

Mastering engineer at Chicago Mastering Service, tour manager for Superchunk, & displaced Texan. Veo que traes un bate de criquet. 🌱 Visit matthewbarnhart.com for info & booking | See What I'm doing now | Get in touch: [email protected]

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Tre Orsi, Chicago, July 2024

A few photos from Howard of Tre Orsi's in Chicago, 2024, for the PRF BBQ.

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Hello again, Tumblr.

At home with COVID (third time's the charm!), wishing I was not sick and instead Ruby and I were in Mexico City, having a jugo verde from the dude in the background there.

Instead just drinking throat coat and desperately waiting for Kemonito: La última caída to begin streaming anywhere.

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Quarantimes Discography update

Weird times, right? Here are some great records I've gotten to work on that are finding their way into the world now.

Bob Mould Blue Hearts (Merge Records)

Torres "Too Big for the Glory Hole" b/w "Good Scare (demo)" (Merge Records)

The Archaeas The Archaeas (Goner Records)

Optic Sink Optic Sink (Goner Records)

Quintron and Miss Pussycat Goblin Alert (Goner Records)

Say Sue Me Good for Some Reason (Winter​/​Spring) (Damnably)

David Boring Unnatural Objects and Their Humans (Damnably)

Former Utopia Magnetar (Damnably)

Grrrl Gang Here to stay! (Damnably)

Campo-Formio Piedra y Tijera (Dead Mofongo Records)

Los Mundos No Hay Quien Se Salve (Remaster)

LOVVS Modern Culture

The Prof.Fuzz 63 Owls

Twin Peaks Side A

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Mint Mile announce their debut double album, "Ambertron." - Comedy Minus One

Announcing “Ambertron” (cmo050) a double record from Mint Mile.  Limited to 500 copies, in stores March 24 of 2020.  Hear the song “Likeliho

Can’t say enough how proud I am to get to play with some of my heroes, and of this album. Recorded/mixed/mastered by me.

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Video Premiere: Luggage - 'Shift' | Decibel Magazine

Stow this in your earholes, new noise rock radness from Chicago's Luggage.

Video premiere for the awesome new Luggage LP I recorded/mixed. Mastered by my colleague Greg Obis at Chicago Mastering Service.

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A handful of updates...

It’s been a very busy few months already in 2019, so busy that I’m sticking to my all-too-sporadic update schedule. A few highlights so far:

The Gotobeds Debt Begins At 30 (Sub Pop)

Titus Andronicus An Obelisk (Merge Records)

Nots 3 (Goner)

Dark Blue Victory Is Rated (12XU)

Cocaine Piss Passionate and Tragic (Hypertension Records)

Silkworm In The West (Reissue) (Comedy Minus One)

Los Mundos Calor Central (Avandadoom)

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Discography update

A few of the awesome records I’ve had the privilege of working on recently include:

Bob Mould Sunshine Rock (Merge)

Patois Counselors Proper Release (ever/never)

Unholy Two The Pleasure To End All Pleasures (12XU)

Sick Thoughts Sick Thoughts (Goner)

Cobra Man TOXIC PLANET (Goner)

Carbonas Your Moral Superiors: Singles And Rarities (Goner)

Advance Base Animal Companionship (Run For Cover)

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone Etiquette (2018 remaster) (Orindal)

Autogramm What R U Waiting 4? (Nevado)

Tancred Nightstand (Polyvinyl)

Tenemos Explosivos Victoria

Thee Conductor Cotton Tornado (Sixgunlover)

Savak Beg Your Pardon (Ernest Jennings) - mixed 3 songs

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Hanging with the good daddies of @luggage_chicago today. (at Electrical Audio)

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Hope your spring break has been this fun. Finishing Overseas LP2 @ The Echo Lab.

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Strange Peace, by METZ

11 track album

The 3rd METZ LP is deadly and I am so fucking lucky to get to work with these geniuses.

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Lost Balloons' Sweet Little Psych-Pop Song 'Paint' Just Doesn't Want To End

The cross-continental duo of Jeff Burke (The Marked Men, Radioactivity) and Yusuke Okada (Suspicious Beasts) make hazy, flowery '60s psych with a bit of '80s jangle.

I think Jeff Burke is an actual genius and I can’t believe I get to work on this records.

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Literally the only "big goal" I ever had when I started recording was to one day work on a Superchunk record. I got to master this new single (plus a couple of other TBA projects) recently at Chicago Mastering Service. It's a benefit for Planned Parenthood and it's likely gonna sell out real fast. Hop to!

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Art Guards is up to stream and order! listen over here: https://yofishboy.bandcamp.com/album/art-guards Today I spread out all the paintings to organize and number them for orders. The good news is I’m only missing three, bad news is one was already ordered! You can get one of these paintings at the above link with a comic and cd or get the very excellent sounding vinyl LP over at lauren-records.com or at our release show next Saturday and on our west coast tour starting the day after!

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I am very proud of the new Fishboy record. It’s out, listen to it! We battled fires, floods, and other assorted Acts of God to get it done.

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Recent mastering projects

A few really great records I’ve worked on at Chicago Mastering Service have finally seen the light of day:

Actuers Corridor MILD VILNC  Brian Case of Disappears and Jeremy Lemos of White/Light

Andrew Cohen + Light Coma Unreality - Comedy Minus One one of my musical heroes, formerly of Silkworm, Bottomless Pit, and Mint Mile

Knife in the Water Plays One Sound And Others (reissue) - Sonic Surgery

Knife in the Water Reproduction - Keeled Scales A reissue and a new LP from one of my favorite Texas bands of all time

Korean Jeans Heat - Single Action Rider Crazy tuba/drums duo, recorded live to 2-track at Electrical Audio

Lost Balloons Hey Summer - Dirtnap Jeff Burke from Marked Men/Radioactivity

The New Year - Snow - Undertow First LP in 9 years from the Kadane Brothers + crew

Nots Live at Goner - Goner

Xetas The Tower - 12XU Great Austin band’s best record yet

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Recording Luggage at Electrical Audio with producer @natalievdavila. (at Electrical Audio)

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They Say The Wire Nest Made Them Pinkish Black @ The Echo Lab. (L-R: @teaguejon, Frank Cervantes, @sarawruth23, @daron_beck)

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Today: cutting a very rad TBA LP for the kings, @gonerrecords. (at Chicago Mastering Service)