{"id":14648,"date":"2015-07-19T11:48:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T18:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=14648"},"modified":"2015-07-19T11:48:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T18:48:43","slug":"matthew-koma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2015\/07\/matthew-koma\/","title":{"rendered":"MATTHEW KOMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14649\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Issue37-matthew-koma.jpg\" alt=\"Issue37-matthew-koma\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Issue37-matthew-koma.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Issue37-matthew-koma-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1>MATTHEW KOMA<\/h1>\n<p><b>HOMETOWN:<\/b> Long Island, N.Y.<br \/>\n<b>INFLUENCES:<\/b> Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Don Henley<br \/>\n<b>ALBUM:<\/b> As-yet-untitled LP, out 2015<br \/>\n<b>WEBSITE:<\/b> matthewkoma.com<\/p>\n<p>The son of a New York singer-songwriter, EDM musician Matthew Koma aspired to write compelling songs at a young age\u2014and he succeeded, landing a publishing deal at just 16. \u201cMy favorite songwriters are the ones who tell stories that are rooted in real emotion, but who find a way to get there that isn\u2019t obvious or direct,\u201d he says. After signing a recording deal with Interscope Records in 2012, Koma toured alongside such artists as LMFAO, Ellie Goulding and Charli XCX\u2014and attracted further notice as the co-writer of Zedd\u2019s Grammy-winning track, \u201cClarity.\u201d Koma, 27, is working on his debut album, slated for release in 2015. \u201cThere are so many roadmaps to a great song, so many different ways to get to that destination,\u201d he says. \u201cThe challenge of carving out my own path and speaking from my perspective\u2014as I\u2019m looking for it and defining and redefining it myself\u2014is always an inspiring and exciting thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MATTHEW KOMA HOMETOWN: Long Island, N.Y. INFLUENCES: Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Don Henley ALBUM: As-yet-untitled LP, out 2015 WEBSITE: matthewkoma.com The son of a New York singer-songwriter, EDM musician Matthew Koma aspired to write compelling songs at a young age\u2014and he succeeded, landing a publishing deal at just 16. \u201cMy favorite songwriters are the ones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[7659,7660],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14650,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14648\/revisions\/14650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}