Matt Embree

{{short description|American singer and guitarist|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| instrument = Vocals, guitar, percussion, keyboards

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| associated_acts = {{Hlist|RX Bandits|Pebaluna|Love You Moon|Dispatch|The Sound of Animals Fighting|State Radio}}

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Matthew Embree is an American singer and guitarist best known as the frontman of Rx Bandits.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/rx-bandits-were-trying-way-too-hard-in-high-school/|title=Rx Bandits Were Trying Way Too Hard in High School|last=Zeller|first=Jonathan|date=2014-07-25|website=Vice|language=en|access-date=2019-09-06}} He also plays guitar and provides occasional vocals for The Sound of Animals Fighting, in which he is known as "The Walrus".{{Cite web|url=https://infectiousmagazine.com/live-review-the-sound-of-animals-fighting-philadelphia-pa/|title=LIVE REVIEW: The Sound of Animals Fighting, Philadelphia, PA|last=Bankert|first=Drew|date=2014-03-29|website=Infectious Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2019-09-06}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/2007/06/rx-bandits/|title=RX Bandits|date=2007-06-11|website=Spin|access-date=2019-09-06}} He produced their last album The Ocean and the Sun. Since 2016, Embree has been a touring member of Dispatch.{{Cite web|url=https://portcitydaily.com/arts-and-culture/2022/09/01/interview-dispatch-disassembles-rebuilds-anew-with-latest-album-tour/ |title=Interview: Dispatch disassembles, rebuilds anew with latest album, tour |date=September 2022 }}

Embree has contributed to several other hip hop, alternative, art, progressive, and psychedelic rock bands including Seekret Socyetee, Coke vs. Bills, Pebaluna, and Biceratops, among others.{{Citation needed|date=September 2019}}

In 2008, he released Waxwane, his first solo album, under the name Love You Moon. Embree wrote, produced, and played all the instruments on the album, except for a few tracks featuring drums by Chris Tsagakis and vocals by Lauren Coleman. Embree also started MDB Records in 2002, which is based in Seal Beach, California. In 2006, Embree began collaborating with management/label Sargent House, who helped MDB release of one of Embree's other band's albums. Love You Moon's debut album Waxwane was released by Sargent House/MDB Digitally on May 20, 2008, with a physical release that August.