WHO + WHAT

RIA.la is a composition & production music house located in East Los Angeles. It’s operated by partners Matt O’Keefe (b. IL) and Michael Fiore (b. NY).

Collectively, their musical resumes stretch from living rooms to Late Night and major labels to defunct indies. Their songs have been licensed to brands such as Apple, Rockstar Games, EA Games, Patagonia & Ray-Ban, while additionally being featured in series on Showtime, Netflix, NBC, CBS, CW & MTV, etc.

RIA.la hums with a tight-knit community of collaborators—arrangers, players, and songwriters—who together Frankenstein an independent music house dedicated in service to the song instead of the sync, forever mindful of the listless performer’s dreaded heckle: “No Blood! No Blood! Get a transfusion!”

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Matt O’Keefe:

Matt O’Keefe’s professional start in music came during the second wave of the American garage rock revival, long after it trickled down from the impenetrable major label heights of the early Aughts and settled into the 2010s’ .zip file wild west of GarageBand recordings and blog-labels. He produced his old band’s debut record—Remember When (Autumn Tone, 2012)—in his parent’s basement when he was seventeen. He owned two shitty microphones and he used one. They would eventually sign to Atlantic/Canvasback and release two more records before O’Keefe departed in 2018 to pursue other musical avenues.

Michael Fiore:

Born in Long Island, Michael Fiore ended up in California enrolled at USC’s music program in the late 2000s. During and after which he fronted an LA punk band weary of the drenched-in-reverb garage rock scene he saw budding up around him. Living with five other music school students, Fiore would self-record esoteric albums when his roommates returned to their home states for the holidays, helping himself to any instruments they left behind, whether he knew how to play it or not. His old band put in endless miles on the road and multiple self-released records before playing the game with Run It Again, released on Dangerbird Records in 2018.

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