One night as we lay down to sleep, we began to think about all the time we spend making music, and all the recordings we have captured, and how they are sitting quietly in a little white box in the corner. We wondered what would happen if we were to die before we woke up in the morning? What, if anything, would people make of the many, many, many recordings in the little white box after we were gone? A worrisome thought, to be sure. So, we got up out of bed and looked through the little white box. That very night we picked thirteen individual recordings out of the box and arranged them into a music album for people to listen to. Matthew Kates is Dead is the result of that morbid late night adventure.

Interview with Matthew Kates.

We discuss how we spent our Christmas; our favorite Christmas present of all time; Sally Ride; faking the rock band sound; why he named his new album Matthew Kates is Dead; how he approaches song writing; the read "Blue Belle" Chanel; being less intellectual; Lucinda Williams; my Music Monday! Top 10 for 2006; playing live versus playing in the studio, unfound songs; bringing in other musicians to perform his songs; Brian Wilson and Ludwig Von Beethoven; being a DJ at Kill Radio; Autonomedia's Calendar of Jubilee Saints.

Featured songs are:

1. "Long Tall Sally Ride"
2. "Blue Belle Chanel"
3. "LahDeeDah"

Special bonus song, "Gut Bucket," by James Brown, in honor of the Godfather of Soul, who passed away December 23.