Today, Synthesis’ Band You’ve Never Heard of Band of the Day will stray a little bit into the electro side of the rock spectrum. And by “a little bit” I mean entirely. Boston electro-rock duo Matters & Dunaway meet at the mid-point where pleather-clad ravers chat Matrix post-apocalyptic fashion and The Faint still mattered. Their is the sound of a not to distant future that was realized in the last decade, with neon-lit tubes blurring by at chemically enhanced speeds. Their new EP, Feel The Future, is available now via iTunes and Amazon.

Matters and Dunaway - Feel The Future
Streetdate May 20, 2008

Matters & Dunaway were last heard in late 2004 fusing ambient electronic with intricate rock rhythms straddling a line between melancholy and euphoria. Since that time, the duo from Boston, MA have been honing their unique blend of tech-rock into a more compressed, aggressive sound. Feel the Future is saturated with bursting cymbals, darting bass lines and revving synthesizers.

So we know that Jared Leto gets pissed, like that one time he choked out Elijah Wood for clowning his band, and that one time he tried to fight Brad Pitt and got his faced all smashed up. So it’s not all that shocking that the other night, when his band 30 Seconds to Mars played London’s Hammersmith Apollo, he bashed some Brit in the head with a mic. What is, however shocking, is that YouTube has made it hard to drink in the lulz by taking down every video of the incident within minutes of it being posted. So while the above video may work for now, in the event of an lulzkill, you can also find the footage here, hereand probably a bunch of other places I’m too lazy to look for. Its cool to beat people with the mic and all, but we liked it better when Leto used to just pop EPIC BONERS onstage instead. That shit is HOT.