Featured Redshift A 12-song album to soundtrack moonsilvered night drives on the patchy back roads of a sprawling soundscape—out where the county lines of art-folk, indie rock, and Americana meet.
Blog Nothing's scarier than silence in "We're All Going to the World's Fair" An analysis of a slow-burn, coming-of-age horror that asks the most important spiritual question of our times: “What if the internet's a demon we summon into our lives by posting on it?”
The Okay Lakes Featured Music Video: "A Cross on a Gravel Road" WARNING: Spirits in the mirror are closer than they appear in this midwest ghost story.
Blog Mike Viola’s “Paul McCarthy” is an open love letter to classic rock An album review (sorta), but mostly a look at the craft of veteran songwriter/producer operating at the top of his game
Blog How to make peace with "the unsatisfying grunt labor" of writing On Rick Bass, the spirituality of working at your craft, and fighting for what makes you feel free
Blog Featured Kill the part of you that cringes Let he who has not been cringe cast the first ironically detached subtweet
Video Homemade Horror Show '23 Every October since 2018, on a coffin-black night in Chicago, local indie filmmakers and horror buffs gather to make their offerings to Homemade Horror Show—an annual anthology of indie horror/comedy shorts.
The Okay Lakes Watch a live, solo version of “Cracks” A stripped-down, live, solo version of "Cracks" from our debut show at the Hideout in Chicago last August
The Okay Lakes (The Graves of the Glaciers) Lyrics for the song off the album "Redshift" by The Okay Lakes
The Okay Lakes Till the End Time Begins Lyrics for the song off the album "Redshift" by The Okay Lakes
The Okay Lakes The Life I'll Leave You Lyrics for the song off the album "Redshift" by The Okay Lakes
The Okay Lakes A Cross on a Gravel Road Lyrics for the song from the album "Redshift" by The Okay Lakes
