Born in Los Angeles to a family for whom music was all-important, Matthew Alsberg started learning guitar and piano as a young child, and by the time he enrolled in high school (where he counted Murs, Double K from People Under the Stairs, and Eligh among his peers) he was also playing bass and trombone, studying both jazz and classical music, as well as listening to plenty of punk and hip-hop; he even began to rap himself, though he quickly stepped out of that and moved to production work instead. An active participant in the L.A. underground rap scene, Alsberg, who was now g...