Wear Many Hats Episode 32 — Matt Maust — Cold War Kids // LUV
Hey everyone it’s Rashad and this is Wear Many Hats presented by Dahsar where we talk about your main gig then we talk about your side hustle.
Matt Maust is a cold war kid, a product of love, visual artist, loves vintage and looks great in a bucket hat.
Mister Mauster is a bowser with the vintage band tees, living the life of being in cold War kids and making art and clothing for the rest of your life is the life that people would absolutely dream of.
I’m so wet right now, Hang me up to Dry Matt Maust.
How’s it going? I’m rocking a LUV product Nick Thune collaboration for his tour. When did this come out and how did you guys meet?
Have you ever done stand up comedy before?
Where are you right now? Coming live from LA?
I want to say thank you again for the goods the LUV product, we gotta do trades often you know.
You know what my favorite stance you do is, when you cross your legs and sit with your coffee in hand, very non chalant, very cool.
I love that when we first talked you thought my design and collaborative with Peter Saville wasa bootleg but lo and behold.
You guys just played the rooftop of The Pasea hotel what was that like?
New Age Norms 2 did Atiba Jefferson photograph the cover? Man met him several times in LA, once at his show on Fairfax with his twin and just on the street rocking a mogwai
Dwell interview — I love that your sitting on that chair with the chrome legs.
Artwork
How big is your studio Matt? It seems like you wheatpasted the walls it’s incredible.
I love that you incorporate your artwork with the band, you design the band merch, the first two EPs. Were you an artist before you played bass.
What’s your process in creating your tees?
Cold War Kids
Slap some bass in Cold War Kids.
Your humble beginnings of working a 9–5 job as a designing t-shirts for a clothing line to quit that job to go full time with the band is definitely a moment. What was the brand?
What’s your favorite record?
We talk Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, off pod but what other acts are you inspired by?
Vintage Tee Game
What’s your favorite tee?
Would you ever open up your own vintage shop?
Perry Shall — T Shirt — T Time shout out philly.
LUV Product
How did you start LUV, why LUV?
How did you come up with the name?
What’s your process in creating your tees?
Hats Off
Hats of to you on all these things that you do, for some Wear Many Hats Dahsar solutions if you care to accept, would you ever think about showing the LUV by working with other brands such as Dahsar?
Definitely want to go on lpg walks with you to The Broad or any museum out in LA. I’m fully vaxed so next month, I’ll hopefully get my ass to LA.
Ending
Plug your socials where can people find you?
If you were to get a chest tattoo quote in olde english what would it be?
Till next time this is Wear Many Hats presented by Dahsar and I’m Rashad Peace!
