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  Matt Pinfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Matt Pinfield is an American radio and TV host and a former VJ on the American MTV during the mid 1990s, and hosted the alternative music show 120 Minutes.
Matt was a local legend in the Central Jersey area, singing in hard-rock bands anonomously as the lead singer of Opium Vala (although his favorite vocal was a faithful cover of Donovan's "Sunshine Superman").
Matt was known as an eccentric who always found the spotlight.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matt_Pinfield   (410 words)

  
 HDNet Original Programming - Matt Pinfield
It was under Matt's guidance that the station gained its initial notoriety, due in large part to his rock credibility with some of the music greats from the area such as Bruce Springsteen.
Matt was also the first VJ brought in to host music hours on MTV2, and helped position and develop the channel in its infancy.
Matt Pinfield remains one of the most appreciated and recognized personalities in the music and entertainment industry today.
www.hd.net /bio_pinfield.html   (933 words)

  
 Canadian Music Week 2005
It was under Matt's leadership that the station gained its success, partly due to his rock credibility with some of the music greats from the area such as Bruce Springsteen.
Matt stills guest hosts for MTV on great specials like "25 LOUD" in which Matt was joined by Jack Black, Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Corrola.
Matt continues to do A&R and Artist Development for Columbia Records, and in his spare time, hosts tv and radio shows, writes, and remains one of the most appreciated and recognized personalities in the music and entertainment industry.
www.cmw.net /spmatt_pinfield.htm   (761 words)

  
 120 Minutes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Not as bad as Matt Pinfield in the sense that Pinfield's typical interview focused on the past (i.e.
And Matt Pinfield was no help,shooting his mouth off like he was the messiah of alternative music.
Matt Pinfield was just the concrete in the proverbial shoes that sank it, folks.
www.jumptheshark.com /o/120minutes.htm   (2926 words)

  
 Matt Cheplic - Indie, Alternative Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It debuted last June, as a part of a special called "Under the Radar: Flying Indie." Matt Pinfield hosted the show -- essentially an exposé on independent music -- and they showed videos by 20 indie or unsigned artists.
Matt Cheplic and Fear Factory in the same programming block...
To have Matt Pinfield peer into the camera, hundreds of tons of ferocity and knowledge, and talk about me...
www.mattcheplic.com /video.html   (126 words)

  
 VH1'S Weekly 'Top 20 Video Countdown' Boasts a New Set, New Look, New Platform and New Host
About Matt Pinfield: From the day he was born, Matt Pinfield always knew we wanted to be around music.
Matt was also the first VJ to host music hours on MTV2, and helped position and develop the channel in its infancy.
After nearly 5 years, Matt recently exited his position as Vice President of A & R and Artist Development for Columbia Records where he signed and made records with Gold and Platinum recording artists Coheed & Cambria, and Crossfade, and is excited to be joining VH1.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-28-2006/0004328251&EDATE=   (534 words)

  
 Matt Pinfield   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Pinfield comes across as the ultimate music fan, a spokesman for a demographic that MTV, with its emphasis on the visual over the aural, hadn't really addressed before.
The 36-year-old Pinfield started acting on his musical obsessions early, building a pirate radio station in his New Jersey basement when he was nine.
Pinfield knows that he's an odd choice for a network based less on erudition than on fashion, youth, and sex appeal.
www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/98/03/19/MATT_PINFIELD.html   (1756 words)

  
 The Tool Page: An Article
With their new studio album due in mid-April, alternative metal outfit Tool has released an interim box set that should keep fans happy until the band issues what will surely be one of next year's most eagerly awaited albums.
MATT: Was part of the decision to release the videos based on the fact that you felt that MTV and other video outlets had never given the videos the exposure they deserved and you wanted your fans to have them?
MATT: You've talked in the past about some of the bands that you love.
toolshed.down.net /articles/new_text/January_2001--Farmclub.com.html   (1292 words)

  
 Geometry.Net - Celebrities: Pinfield Matt
Takako Matt Cedeno Matt Damon Matt Dillon Matt Doran Matt Gallini Matt GroeningMatt Keeslar Matt Lauer Matt LeBlanc Matt Maverick Matt pinfield matt Salerno
MaTT PiNFieLD This guy thinks he's a know-it-all and a god when it comes to music.
Matt started his own pirate radio station from his basement at age nine, and by the time he was thirteen he had a spot on the AM dial!
www.geometry.net /detail/celebrities/pinfield_matt.html   (1304 words)

  
 tony visconti v3.0
Matt Pinfield brought Coheed and Cambria, and producer Mike Birnbaum to the studio to hear the final results.
Matt Pinfield, now a vice president at Columbia records sent the CD to me and I fell for this band instantly.
Matt dropped by today to hear the first few mixes we have done and he was thrilled.
www.tonyvisconti.com /news/aug04.htm   (366 words)

  
 The Velvet Rope Forums: Matt Pinfield
I am a huge fan of Matt, he is a great guy and I would put him on status with Bob Jamieson as someone to work with.
As a former colleague and forever friend of Matt's, I assure you Coffee (with all due respect to you and your band, of which I was /am a fan) the honor was indeed yours.
Matt is a tremendous person with the type of passion we all miss in the music business.
www.velvetrope.com /ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=UBB1&Number=562710&Forum=All_Forums&Words=&Match=Entire%20Phrase&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Old=2days&Main=562710&Search=true&sess=35bd4a7950d12e541917876ae5dcf772#Post562710   (636 words)

  
 Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | Betting the Farmclub
Matt Pinfield, the stocky, bald-headed broadcaster who established his reputation as the station's tough-looking savant and host of MTV's "120 Minutes" show, is starting to seem a lot more like one of those infomercial blowhards.
Pinfield left MTV last year to join "Jimmy and Doug's Farmclub.com" when it debuted earlier this year.
Pinfield and all of those Universal-related artists (Et tu, U2?) start to look like a mutant fish-baby: You might not know what the hell you're looking at, but you know it's not right.
archive.salon.com /ent/music/feature/2000/11/15/farmclub/print.html   (1270 words)

  
 The Matt Pinfield appreciation thread - @forums
We have asked repeatedly that old threads not be bumped, but it seems as if you cannot abide by such a simple request, so we are abiding by the request for you.
Pinfield is not as bad as that Iann character now featured on M2.
I knew Matt when I was in high school we lived in the same town.
www.atforumz.com /showthread.php?t=62647   (567 words)

  
 Opinion - raveller.com - Attack Matt Pinfield - April 9, 1999 (b)
MTV for some reason thought it might be a good thing to send ace correspondant Matt Pinfield to the scene.
So there my fellows and I were in a bar when Matt Pinfield walks in.
We notice this and begin to curse about what makes a guy like Matt Pinfield famous, besides the fact that he is a music trivia expert.
www.raveller.com /opinion/?opinion=0409b99   (373 words)

  
 altmusictv: 120 minutes: jim shearer's interview
Matt: Officially in 1995, but in '93 I filled in.
Matt: You see nobody was ever really a prick to me-I was very lucky.
Matt: I loved the show from day one, cause I saw great new videos from up-and-coming bands that you wouldn't see any other time during the day.
www.altmusictv.com /120/interview.html   (2851 words)

  
 Fountains of Wayne on 120 Minutes
I'm Matt Pinfield, and this is of course D'arcy and James of the Smashing Pumpkins, and we're also joined by Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne.
Matt: "Adam, years ago you plaed in a Jersey band called The Red House.
Matt: "And umm...this Fountains of Wayne record is an excellend record, it's really cool.
members.tripod.com /~FountainsWayne/article10.html   (366 words)

  
 Penthouse Media Group Inc. :: Sopranos Star Steve Schirripa Squeals to Penthouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
MATT PINFIELD - THE MUSIC MAN: He was a deejay in NJ, a host of MTV's 120 Minutes and an A and R rep for Columbia Records.
He has been touted as the most knowledgeable man in music and now, in less than a decade, Matt Pinfield, the walking encyclopedia of music, is back on television as a VH1 veejay.
Once deemed "too bald to be on the air," Matt persevered nonetheless and was a definitive catalyst in breaking bands such as Stone Temple Pilots and 311.
sev.prnewswire.com /music/20060307/FLTU00607032006-1.html   (567 words)

  
 VH1.com : RockOnTV : Show Info
The biggest name in hip-hop sits down with Matt Pinfield and brings his label mates, the infamous Mobb Deep, along for the ride.
Matt Pinfield’s candid interview approach has made him a favorite among music fans and musicians alike dating back to his days at MTV & USA up to his present day radio show on Sirius Satellite.
Matt goes behind-the-scenes to get the inside scoop as he interviews the biggest music stars and legends in the industry - giving you the real stories and honest opinions from the artists who live them.
www.vh1.com /artists/rock_on_tv/show_info.jhtml?type=series&motvId=rotv:s121749&days=&startdoc=3   (418 words)

  
 HDNet Original Programming - Sound Off with Matt Pinfield
Go behind-the-scenes and get the inside scoop with former MTV host Matt Pinfield as he interviews the biggest music stars and legends in the industry.
Sound Off with Matt Pinfield is the most candid music interview series on television, giving you the real stories and honest opinions from the artists who live them.
Clef and Matt chat about his humble beginnings in Haiti, his solo albums and his current hit single "Hips Don't Lie", a duet with Shakira.
www.hd.net /op_soundoff.html   (176 words)

  
 Movement Magazine .com : Music : Start Trouble   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Then Matt Pinfield of MTV was in town because his wife's parents lived in Ortega.
The day I was gonna sign, Matt Pinfield called me back and says ‘Don't sign anything because Sony wants to do a demo deal.’ So they gave us the demo deal.
Me and the band produced them and Matt Pinfield came down and helped us with "Chemical." There was some kind of conflict where he couldn't get partial credits or something, because he's there I guess.
www.movementmagazine.com /0504/music_starttrouble.htm   (2683 words)

  
 PopMatters Music Feature | South by Southwest 2004: A Field Journal -- Day Four (Music): Celebrities Gone Wild and ...
I gather that it all started when some musicians told MTV V.J., Matt Pinfield, that someone they met called him "a joke." Then, he popped out of the room to pace the halls in artery-popping rage.
He barked on his cell phone in the hallway trying to track down the full name and location of the person who dissed him, drawing up explicit scenarios of the seven million ways he was gonna put his food in this dude's ass.
I developed a new level of love for Matt Pinfield this night, who I always thought acted too nice on MTV, as if he were apologizing for not being a pretty boy.
popmatters.com /features/sxsw2004/index.shtml   (1239 words)

  
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Matt, I've seen a lot of shows, and TMBG put on the best concert I have ever seen in my life, on May 15 of this year, at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC.
Pinfield has a certain respect for actual talent in the music industry, and would be happy to give TMBG more exposure on his show if we let him know we support the idea.
Pinfield's hand, and start a conversation with him about what a great live band they are, the unmistakable genius of the band's life's work, etc., etc., etc.
www.tmbg.org /discussion/mail/list/archive/1999/Digest.17-26   (4479 words)

  
 TeeVee.org: Rock the Cybervote   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Former MTV veejay Matt Pinfield (the portly bald dude who resembles Spider-Man villain The Kingpin and has far too much musical knowledge to work for MTV) is introducing this "hot new band" from Atlanta called Stereomud.
Pinfield was introducing another "hot new band," but they were some gawdawful grunge-punk outfit from Ft. Lauderdale called Monster Zero.
The real work of Farmclub.com falls on Pinfield's rounded shoulders, and work it he does: There are no "bad" bands in his world, just varying degrees of "cool" ones.
www.teevee.org /archive/2000/06/20/index.html   (780 words)

  
 Radio Ink - The Voice of Radio Revolution
Sirius Satellite Radio has announced that veteran alternative rock music personality Matt Pinfield has joined its on-air staff.
A former MTV programming executive and veejay and current Columbia Records exec, Pinfield hosts the new music program titled Matt Pinfield Plays Whatever He Wants.
Pinfield said of his new gig, “It’s so great to be here at Sirius, getting to play whatever I want – deep album tracks, new imports, indies I love and even exceptional unsigned artists.
www.radioink.com /HeadlineEntry.asp?hid=127810&pt=todaysnews   (125 words)

  
 My Blog Is Poop
When I started working at MTV I came across a tape of Kennedy interviewing Weezer on Alternative Nation, which has to be the funniest thing I've ever seen.
Rivers Cuomo and Matt Sharp just sit there the whole time, ignoring her questions, causing Kennedy to go crazier and crazier by the minute.
Matt Pinfield - There are certain moments in your life that you never forget, and the moment that you discover that Matt Pinfield and Ian Robinson aren't the same person, happens to be one of them.
myblogispoop.blogspot.com /2004/11/tied-to-90s.html   (666 words)

  
 Attention Sirius subscribers: Great new show on Sundays - NeoGAF
An alternative rock radio veteran, former MTV programming executive and VJ and current Columbia Records executive, Matt Pinfield hosts the new music program Matt Pinfield Plays Whatever He Wants.
Pinfield began his career in broadcasting as a teenager at WRSU/Rutgers University.
He continues to be featured as a guest host and a contributor to radio and television programs and specials.
www.ga-forum.com /showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=40191   (300 words)

  
 [radio.wazee] Modern Alternative Rock - STRIPPING THE PISTOL
Matt Walker (Smashing Pumpkins, Filter) performed drum duties on the three tracks.
Their track "I Think There's Something Wrong" was handpicked by Sharon Osbourne for inclusion on the DVD release of the Osbournes.
Matt Pinfield calls "Black Reflection" a rock anthem.
www.wazee.org /artists/stripping_the_pistol.shtml   (393 words)

  
 IGN: Pinfield The Playboy
As can be expected, some of the partygoers hail from the world of music, including the requisite label folks, popular musicians like Art Alexakis (of Everclear fame), and even one Matt Pinfield, former MTV VJ, music mogul, and self-styled Alt Rock historian.
While Pinfield's presence at first seems out of place, it becomes clear why he's in the mix.
Regardless of what kind of character Pinfield is in the game, one thing is for certain: to be immortalized in a game is perhaps the coolest thing this side of having an action figure made in your likeness.
music.ign.com /articles/514/514351p1.html   (772 words)

  
 MUSIC | Matt Pinfield
- This CD set is a truly historic release for Matt's fans, as it includes brilliant renditions of two well-known songs that have been unreleased for over 30 years.
Matt Monro The Worlds Greatest Singer - I bought this collection because of one song in the collection the beautiful "Precious Moments" the theme from The Sea Wolves,but what value I have had...
Long overdue excellent retrospective - a collectors set - I have been a Matt fan for a few years now ever since I saw him live in the early 80s with the Syd Lawrence Orchestra.
music-uk.worldsearch.com /matt-pinfield.htm   (286 words)

  
 altmusictv: 120 minutes: playlist archive: shows from mtv (1995-2000)
Pinfield even put mitts on as the interview was wrapping up.
Matt Pinfield refers to this show in Jim Shearer's Interview.
Johnny Q. Public - Body Be Matt Pinfield refers to this show as his first time hosting in Jim Shearer's Interview.
www.altmusictv.com /120/archive_mtv.html   (4099 words)

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