Matt Pinfield is a music personality and TV host, best known for being a VJ on MTV and VH1.
Early in his career, he was an on-air host and Music Director at WRSU-FM, the official radio station of Rutgers University. 1984, Pinfield became a radio DJ on Jersey shore alternative rock radio station WHTG-FM 106.3, and was the main DJ at a New Brunswick, NJ club called The Melody. The Melody spawned such bands as The Smithereens, Thursday, and Bouncing Souls. During his 10 years at WHTG, Matt was the recipient of the Gavin Award (1992, 1993) for National Commercial Alternative Music Director of the Year.
In 1995, Pinfield kicked off his Television career hosting MTV’s 120 Minutes. Within a year, he hosted a variety of MTV shows including “MattRock,” “Pinfield Suite,” “Pinfield Presents”, Rocks Off”, Say What, MTV Live and well over 100 MTV specials. His incredible music knowledge was showcased on TRL’s Stump Matt. 1999, Pinfield joined Universal Television to host and co-write a live television show about music, farmclub.com which aired in 2000 on the USA Network.
In 2001, Matt became Vice President of A & R and Artist Development for Columbia Records, signing and overseeing the making of albums by many gold and platinum acts including Coheed & Cambria and Crossfade. During the same time, he hosted WXRK-FM's The Buzz and made cameo appearances on several albums, including a secret track on Limp Bizkit's Significant Other album. In 2005, Matt was asked by The Rolling Stones to host their international radio interview for Premiere networks. The special featured all 4 band members together for the first time in an interview setting in over 35 years.
In 2006, Pinfield returned to Television to host Vh1’s VSpot Top 20 Countdown and HDNet’s Soundoff with Matt Pinfield, an in-depth interview program in the vein of Larry King Live. Pinfield also made a cameo on the Nickelodeon program The Naked Brothers Band.
On August 22, 2007, Pinfield hosted Projekt Revolution, a free concert hosted on blank">Myspace.com.
Today, Pinfield hosts _Sirius Satellite Radio’s Matt Pinfield Plays Whatever He Wants, and Soundoff with Matt Pinfield.
