Matt Hires – HuffPost 4.5.10

[Note: This is a snippet from one of my interviews with Matt Hires in which he discusses getting signed to a label.]

Mike Ragogna: How did you get “discovered”?

Matt Hires: Well, I was in that band in Tampa for a while, and we got some songs up on MySpace as most bands do. Our band was breaking up, we lost our bass player, so I thought it would be a good time to do the solo thing. Around that time, an A&R guy at Atlantic Records sent me a message on MySpace saying that he loved the songs and to call him up. I really didn’t think about it at first because there are so many people trying to scam you on MySpace, so I didn’t really believe it. But I called up the number, it was Atlantic, and I was pretty stoked about that, and things just happened from there. He was starting up an imprint label with Atlantic called F-Stop Music which is the label that I’m on. They’re all about focusing on artist development, developing new artists. It was a good fit for me, and stuff happened from there. It’s a good thing.