Matthew Dear’s fifth album Beams was a masterwork for the avant-inclined singer/producer, combining computerized effects and live instrumentation in a way that brought new bubble and fizz to the man’s ...

Next week, Michigan dance-music veteran Matthew Dear will release Beams, his follow-up to 2010's excellently smoky Black City. We've already heard two darkly glamorous tracks from the album, "Her ...

On June 17 Matthew Dear has announced that he will release a “Complete Edition” of his most recent album Beams. Featuring previously released and unheard remixes, the bulked-up LP will also include a ...

Bay Area electronic music fans have a solid lock on Matthew Dear at Vessel tonight. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based producer-artist has opened for Interpol and remixed Hot Chip. His label Ghostly ...

Apparently Matthew Dear sold his last LP Beams short when he issued it last fall, as the avant-pop performer is getting set to deliver an expanded version of the album. Ghostly International serves up ...

Matthew Dear is among the very small handful of musicians who’ve been able to successfully straddle the techno and pop worlds. Beams, his fourth full-length, finds Dear moving further to the pop side, ...