We’re super excited to host Michigander at Grimey’s on Friday, July 31st, to celebrate the release of the new album Over Before You Know It! His album drops that day and he’ll be heading to the record shop for an instore performance & record signing. All who preorder the album in advance from Grimey’s will receive a wristband for Michigander’s post-performance album signing. Wristbands are required to participate in the signing for all 13+ and they also guarantee your entrance to the event. (Kids 12 & under don’t need wristbands if attending with wristband-holding adults.) You can read more about the new album and place your preorder on our site here.
Michigander is the acclaimed indie rock project led by Nashville-based singer-songwriter/multi- instrumentalist Jason Singer. Singer thought his 2025 full-length debut as Michigander would change everything about his life and work. During the prior decade, after all, Singer had cobbled together the start of a successful career as an incisive and infectious songwriter from the stuff the music industry considers scraps—a half-dozen singles and a quartet of EPs, collectively suggesting he was one of indie rock’s sharpest new tunesmiths. The debut album Michigander felt only like the upper lip of the plateau Singer had been climbing for a decade already. So what, he wondered, was he supposed to do now? The answer that came back was obvious: Keep writing.
Over Before You Know It is the magnetic and relatable result of that work and the broad but detailed view from the top of that plateau. Across 10 songs written and recorded quickly with a crew of close friends at home in Nashville, Singer mixes self-criticism with music industry sendups, sad-eyed contemplations with unguarded love songs, offering up the things that almost stopped him and those that now keep him going with a rare admixture of candor and catchiness. This, it turns out, is the level up.
Above all, it is all a vehicle for Singer to think about becoming the person he still wants to be, for being grateful enough for what he already has to keep going. To be there is to be human. It’s not necessarily about being content but at least about not breaking your back or brain over the things you have yet to accomplish. Sure, it’s over before you know it. But it’s over a lot faster, Singer has now realized, if you don’t take time to enjoy whatever it actually is.
We love Jason and are so happy to be able to celebrate the new Michigander record with him and all of you! We hope you’ll be able to make it to the shop to join us for this happy occasion. You can lock in your preorder for Over Before You Know It next time you’re in the record shop or on our site here now.
Michigander’s Over Before You Know It ‘Sunny Lawn Splatter’ colored vinyl LP