Matt McLennan

Who is Matt McLennan?

Matt McLennan is an Ottawa-based musician and songwriter who grew up in, and retains strong ties to, the indie music scene in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is a member of the Grumpy Cloud Records label collective, and is currently the lead singer and guitarist in Ottawa band use every part of the deer. He also plays guitar in label-mate Tyler Shipley's political pop outfit The Consumer Goods, and is a member of chamber-folk recording project Mr. Pine. He was frontman in Winnipeg band Cone Five, which enjoyed some amount of local, national, and international success. As a solo artist, McLennan released three independent albums which cracked the Canadian campus top 200.

In over ten active years in the Winnipeg indie music scene, McLennan was involved in a variety of additional successful, semi-successful and occasionally dismally received bands and projects. He was a core member of cowpunk outfit the Horribly Awfuls, and was a founding member of art-terrorism group the Rose Maylies. He released several cassettes and CD-Rs on his own small imprint, dismal failure records, in an effort to expose listeners to the efforts of like-minded, quirky local musicians. As a member of Cone Five, McLennan also helped usher in the Conifera Records scene, which lasted approximately from 2002-2005.