About
Buying Fireworks in Indiana
means listening to songs, reading essays, and watching videos. It's drum & bliss, baby.
Buying Fireworks in Indiana is Will Lindsay, an Ohio-born Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist and producer whose genre-defying "drum & bliss" weaves future garage and indie electronic through swirling guitars and 2000's alt nostalgia.
Buying Fireworks in Indiana is a window into ongoing collaboration. It's making songs with interesting people in interesting places. It's documenting not only the songs, but the people and the places, through writing and film.
Buying Fireworks in Indiana is a new model for supporting art. Premium supporters make this possible- even the ones who don't read the essays. Your continued support allows me to remain committed to this project, full time, full tilt. Every subscriber helps me make these songs and tell these stories- thank you, for real.
Will Lindsay is a musician and storyteller who’s spent the past decade chasing songs and dodging algorithms. He fronts the critically acclaimed Philadelphia indie-punk band Caracara, and before that, made noisy, joyful chaos as W.C. Lindsay. He’s toured the world, lost sleep in vans, and somehow managed to make music that people actually felt.
Now, he’s pouring all of that into Buying Fireworks in Indiana—a solo project that blends indie electronic music, cinematic video essays, and longform writing into something you can’t quite describe at parties. The project is a search—for feeling, for meaning, for stories that don’t disappear into the void of infinite scroll.
Shaped by years of DIY shows, overnight drives, and conversations in strange corners of the world, Buying Fireworks in Indiana is part travelogue, part love letter to subculture. It’s a living archive of underground music, fleeting moments, and people chasing something just out of frame.
Musically, the project lives between genres—in a space Lindsay calls “drum & bliss”—a blend of indie electronic, future garage, post-punk, and melodic drum & bass. It’s emotionally charged and built for movement: dancing, driving, drifting, disappearing.
The rest of the story unfolds in essays and videos—dispatches from the road, meditations on art and impermanence, and quiet glimpses of the collaborations that become the songs.
Buying Fireworks in Indiana is a listener-reader-supported project. If the music hits, if the stories get under your skin—becoming a paid subscriber is how you keep it alive. Premium supporters help ensure the next chapter is not only possible, but honest, wild, and worth doing.
In a digital landscape that can amplify and erase with the same swipe, Lindsay leans into the contradiction—making art that holds tension between nostalgia and progress, tradition and invention. Buying Fireworks in Indiana isn’t just his journey; it’s an open invitation to hop in and come along.
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Buying Fireworks in Indiana is mostly produced in chicago, il. I'm going to break the fourth wall now. Hello, I'm Will, it's me writing this after all.
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It won't come as a surprise that it's difficult to make a living as an artist, and what I hope to accomplish with this project is no secret. In a post-capitalist utopia, I'd spend every day writing something for you to read and every night making music for you to dance to. This is what I'm working toward, and each paid subscriber gets me a little closer. If you like what you hear and read, and would maybe like a lot more of it, please consider becoming a premium supporter, I'll love you forever, unconditionally. Upgrade and get:
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Long-form writing, every two weeks. Looks behind the scenes and stories from the road as I travel the map chasing songs with my friends. For example, here's an essay I wrote about what "buying fireworks in indiana" means to me.
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