MTV: Main Title Themes - It's On with Alexa Chung, Gone Too Far, If You Really Knew Me, also, Jersey Shore, Teen Mom, World of Jenks, Tough Love 2, True Life, Friendzone, Bullied.
Theft is a band that should be huge. We’re lucky to have worked with Matt Mccartie (Theft mastermind) over the years and his 2 newest releases (“Songs for Your Rainy Heart” –coming this summer and “The Hard Way” –fall 2011) take his music to new levels of catchy arena rock. Theft has had 3 different MTV theme songs over the past few years and was our first guest composer creating an original score for an episode of our long running documentary series “True Life”. Anytime we need an authentic and emotional rock chorus to tell a story, Theft is our first stop.
For any hard-working musician, the key is to find the inimitable sound that differentiates him from the rest. For multi-instrumentalist and producer, Matt McCartie, his voice is a Brit rock-inspired wall of sound known as Theft. In January of 2010, McCartie released the band's 1st release, an EP called “Breathing Underwater”. Followed by the singles “Fireworks Explode” and “Never Be the Same”.
Shortly following its release, the jangly pop cut “Fireworks Explode” became the theme song for the series It’s On With Alexa Chung. Following that, the band wrote an original score for the award winning documentary show, True Life as the series' first guest composers. The band's spiraling anthem “Breathing Underwater” became the theme for the late DJ AM’s much-publicized intervention series, Gone Too Far and the blistering and emotional song “Never Be The Same” was chosen as the theme song for MTV show If You Really Knew Me which premiered in July of 2010.
The band, now consisting of members Austen Hooks on drums, Daley Hake on guitar and Ashton Likes on bass, joined Creed for a national amphitheater tour in the summer of 2010. Coming off of tour, the band was approached by Hype Music to record an album of down tempo, TV & Film friendly tunes. What followed was the band's Summer 2011 release entitled “For Your Rainy Heart” which was produced by McCartie. Says Matt, “A Winter record just in time for the Summer. Perfect.”
