Swim Ignorant Fire
@swimignorantfire.bsky.social
Howdy! I'm Stephen
My latest album is out now on Island House Recordings 🏝
www.swimignorantfire.bandcamp.com
My latest album is out now on Island House Recordings 🏝
www.swimignorantfire.bandcamp.com
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October 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Fall Dates 📅
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Some new merch just got posted on the Bandcamp:
🔥 Long-sleeve: Reprint for fall, printed in a limited batch.
🌊 Color Changing Water bottle: stay hydrated on the road, in the pit,..
📀 Discography: 20 years of Swim Ignorant Fire, finally in one place 🙌
www.swimignorantfire.bandcamp.com
🔥 Long-sleeve: Reprint for fall, printed in a limited batch.
🌊 Color Changing Water bottle: stay hydrated on the road, in the pit,..
📀 Discography: 20 years of Swim Ignorant Fire, finally in one place 🙌
www.swimignorantfire.bandcamp.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Some new merch just got posted on the Bandcamp:
🔥 Long-sleeve: Reprint for fall, printed in a limited batch.
🌊 Color Changing Water bottle: stay hydrated on the road, in the pit,..
📀 Discography: 20 years of Swim Ignorant Fire, finally in one place 🙌
www.swimignorantfire.bandcamp.com
🔥 Long-sleeve: Reprint for fall, printed in a limited batch.
🌊 Color Changing Water bottle: stay hydrated on the road, in the pit,..
📀 Discography: 20 years of Swim Ignorant Fire, finally in one place 🙌
www.swimignorantfire.bandcamp.com
20 years distilled onto one CD.
PRE-ORDER is up all month for its Oct 3rd release,
First ten pre-orders get a color-changing SIF water bottle!
PRE-ORDER is up all month for its Oct 3rd release,
First ten pre-orders get a color-changing SIF water bottle!
September 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
20 years distilled onto one CD.
PRE-ORDER is up all month for its Oct 3rd release,
First ten pre-orders get a color-changing SIF water bottle!
PRE-ORDER is up all month for its Oct 3rd release,
First ten pre-orders get a color-changing SIF water bottle!
Howdy howdy!
It's been pretty quiet lately,
I’ve been holding onto this live recording since our release show earlier in January.
Pre-order is up this week only,
The album will be released this Fri, August 1st!
www.swimignorantfire.bandcamp.com
It's been pretty quiet lately,
I’ve been holding onto this live recording since our release show earlier in January.
Pre-order is up this week only,
The album will be released this Fri, August 1st!
www.swimignorantfire.bandcamp.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Howdy howdy!
It's been pretty quiet lately,
I’ve been holding onto this live recording since our release show earlier in January.
Pre-order is up this week only,
The album will be released this Fri, August 1st!
www.swimignorantfire.bandcamp.com
It's been pretty quiet lately,
I’ve been holding onto this live recording since our release show earlier in January.
Pre-order is up this week only,
The album will be released this Fri, August 1st!
www.swimignorantfire.bandcamp.com
Join us for a magical evening of tones on June 7th, we will be supporting Drag City's psychedelic drone duo BCMC, including Cooper Crain (Cave, Bitchin Bajas) and Bill MacKay at Reverberation Vinyl in Bloomington IL.
Nate Hahn (Ohtis) will be joining me on pedal steel for a duo performance.
Nate Hahn (Ohtis) will be joining me on pedal steel for a duo performance.
May 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Join us for a magical evening of tones on June 7th, we will be supporting Drag City's psychedelic drone duo BCMC, including Cooper Crain (Cave, Bitchin Bajas) and Bill MacKay at Reverberation Vinyl in Bloomington IL.
Nate Hahn (Ohtis) will be joining me on pedal steel for a duo performance.
Nate Hahn (Ohtis) will be joining me on pedal steel for a duo performance.
I'm taking a break this May and returning in June for some local shows.
May 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I'm taking a break this May and returning in June for some local shows.
Shows have been going great with the trio. Here's a clip from our album release show at Reverberation Vinyl.
Next show is
TUES MAR 11 7PM FREE
at the McLean County History Museum in Bloomington IL supporting FUJI||||||||||||TA
Next show is
TUES MAR 11 7PM FREE
at the McLean County History Museum in Bloomington IL supporting FUJI||||||||||||TA
March 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Shows have been going great with the trio. Here's a clip from our album release show at Reverberation Vinyl.
Next show is
TUES MAR 11 7PM FREE
at the McLean County History Museum in Bloomington IL supporting FUJI||||||||||||TA
Next show is
TUES MAR 11 7PM FREE
at the McLean County History Museum in Bloomington IL supporting FUJI||||||||||||TA
Opening for FUJI|||||||TA next Tuesday at the McLean County History Museums' Courtroom. Should be a rad time!
7pm
FREE
7pm
FREE
March 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Opening for FUJI|||||||TA next Tuesday at the McLean County History Museums' Courtroom. Should be a rad time!
7pm
FREE
7pm
FREE
A new album review from Roberto Mandolini is in this months edition of Rockerilla magazine.Thank you!
"A work divided in half: in the first part, the 'usual' fusion of exotic atmospheres stuffed dreamy sounds; in the second, a psychedelia that is always colorful but closer to jazz. NEW DIRECTIONS."
"A work divided in half: in the first part, the 'usual' fusion of exotic atmospheres stuffed dreamy sounds; in the second, a psychedelia that is always colorful but closer to jazz. NEW DIRECTIONS."
February 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A new album review from Roberto Mandolini is in this months edition of Rockerilla magazine.Thank you!
"A work divided in half: in the first part, the 'usual' fusion of exotic atmospheres stuffed dreamy sounds; in the second, a psychedelia that is always colorful but closer to jazz. NEW DIRECTIONS."
"A work divided in half: in the first part, the 'usual' fusion of exotic atmospheres stuffed dreamy sounds; in the second, a psychedelia that is always colorful but closer to jazz. NEW DIRECTIONS."
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Big announcement: we're adding smell to zoom. People can smell you on zoom meetings now. We realize nobody asked for this but technological innovation knows no bounds
January 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Big announcement: we're adding smell to zoom. People can smell you on zoom meetings now. We realize nobody asked for this but technological innovation knows no bounds
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Cant stop listening to Christopher Cross after watching that yacht rock doc.
January 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Cant stop listening to Christopher Cross after watching that yacht rock doc.
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this is the better Spotify take
January 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
this is the better Spotify take
A benefit compilation for artists affected by LA Wildfires is now out today from Island House Recordings.
I was fortunate enough to have a track on this release, along with some other major heady bands.
Please spare a few bucks for a good cause 🙏 and enjoy the tunes.
I was fortunate enough to have a track on this release, along with some other major heady bands.
Please spare a few bucks for a good cause 🙏 and enjoy the tunes.
January 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A benefit compilation for artists affected by LA Wildfires is now out today from Island House Recordings.
I was fortunate enough to have a track on this release, along with some other major heady bands.
Please spare a few bucks for a good cause 🙏 and enjoy the tunes.
I was fortunate enough to have a track on this release, along with some other major heady bands.
Please spare a few bucks for a good cause 🙏 and enjoy the tunes.
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Thanks to Frank Eckert at Groove Magazine for the album review. I never had a review in a physical magazine before, so this is super exciting to see and behold.
"Niche Exotika embellished with pedal steel, scented with Hawaiian flower wreaths" 🌸
groove.de/2025/01/22/m...
"Niche Exotika embellished with pedal steel, scented with Hawaiian flower wreaths" 🌸
groove.de/2025/01/22/m...
Motherboard: Januar 2025
Neues Jahr, neues Motherboard – zum Auftakt mit kopfsprengenden, neonkühlen und duftenden Tönen links der Musikmitte.
groove.de
January 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Thanks to Frank Eckert at Groove Magazine for the album review. I never had a review in a physical magazine before, so this is super exciting to see and behold.
"Niche Exotika embellished with pedal steel, scented with Hawaiian flower wreaths" 🌸
groove.de/2025/01/22/m...
"Niche Exotika embellished with pedal steel, scented with Hawaiian flower wreaths" 🌸
groove.de/2025/01/22/m...
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We’re $892.21 away from hitting $10k on my contribution to the Save the Reader campaign. If you’ve got a dollar or ten to donate, or have ten friends you’d like to send this to, please do
I wrote a brief appeal about why you should donate to the Chicago Reader to keep my newsroom afloat. Please donate if you can
donorbox.org/save-the-chi...
donorbox.org/save-the-chi...
Save the Chicago Reader - Leor Galil's Fundraiser on Donorbox
I published my first Reader story in the summer of 2010. It concerned a Logan Square DIY space called Strangelight, which operated out of a storefront in the Congress Theater. I was 24 at the time. Be...
donorbox.org
January 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
We’re $892.21 away from hitting $10k on my contribution to the Save the Reader campaign. If you’ve got a dollar or ten to donate, or have ten friends you’d like to send this to, please do
Thanks to Frank Eckert at Groove Magazine for the album review. I never had a review in a physical magazine before, so this is super exciting to see and behold.
"Niche Exotika embellished with pedal steel, scented with Hawaiian flower wreaths" 🌸
groove.de/2025/01/22/m...
"Niche Exotika embellished with pedal steel, scented with Hawaiian flower wreaths" 🌸
groove.de/2025/01/22/m...
Motherboard: Januar 2025
Neues Jahr, neues Motherboard – zum Auftakt mit kopfsprengenden, neonkühlen und duftenden Tönen links der Musikmitte.
groove.de
January 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Thanks to Frank Eckert at Groove Magazine for the album review. I never had a review in a physical magazine before, so this is super exciting to see and behold.
"Niche Exotika embellished with pedal steel, scented with Hawaiian flower wreaths" 🌸
groove.de/2025/01/22/m...
"Niche Exotika embellished with pedal steel, scented with Hawaiian flower wreaths" 🌸
groove.de/2025/01/22/m...
Tomorrow night above Lexington Social with Brett Conlin!
Loving these dad times,
we play around 530pm and will be joining Brett for a couple of songs afterward.
Tix still available at impededstream.com
Loving these dad times,
we play around 530pm and will be joining Brett for a couple of songs afterward.
Tix still available at impededstream.com
January 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Tomorrow night above Lexington Social with Brett Conlin!
Loving these dad times,
we play around 530pm and will be joining Brett for a couple of songs afterward.
Tix still available at impededstream.com
Loving these dad times,
we play around 530pm and will be joining Brett for a couple of songs afterward.
Tix still available at impededstream.com
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Thanks to Heavenworld and JJ Creatian for playing and everyone who came out to the show last night, it was so awesome to see everyone. Our hearts are filled with good vibes today 🥰
Thanks to John at Reverberation Vinyl for hosting as always.
Here are some highlights from the set ✨️
Thanks to John at Reverberation Vinyl for hosting as always.
Here are some highlights from the set ✨️
January 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Thanks to Heavenworld and JJ Creatian for playing and everyone who came out to the show last night, it was so awesome to see everyone. Our hearts are filled with good vibes today 🥰
Thanks to John at Reverberation Vinyl for hosting as always.
Here are some highlights from the set ✨️
Thanks to John at Reverberation Vinyl for hosting as always.
Here are some highlights from the set ✨️
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@islandhouserecs.bsky.social just doesn’t miss. Two tapes the label released at the end of 2024, albums by Ultisol and Swim Ignorant Fire, are daringly original hallucinatory journeys for the ears. Read more about them here: recordcratesunited.com/2025/01/19/t...
Two from Island House Recordings
Island House Recordings never ceases to surprise and entertain, but these two tapes from late 2024 are especially choice, and might even be some of the best albums the label’s released yet. U…
recordcratesunited.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
@islandhouserecs.bsky.social just doesn’t miss. Two tapes the label released at the end of 2024, albums by Ultisol and Swim Ignorant Fire, are daringly original hallucinatory journeys for the ears. Read more about them here: recordcratesunited.com/2025/01/19/t...
Thanks to Keith at Record Crates United for mentioning our latest endeavor from Island House Recordings.
Limited copies are still available!
Cosmic exotic?
cosmic country on a beach? We don't know what to call it, but we're happy it's finding some ears.
recordcratesunited.com/2025/01/19/t...
Limited copies are still available!
Cosmic exotic?
cosmic country on a beach? We don't know what to call it, but we're happy it's finding some ears.
recordcratesunited.com/2025/01/19/t...
Two from Island House Recordings
Island House Recordings never ceases to surprise and entertain, but these two tapes from late 2024 are especially choice, and might even be some of the best albums the label’s released yet. U…
recordcratesunited.com
January 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Thanks to Keith at Record Crates United for mentioning our latest endeavor from Island House Recordings.
Limited copies are still available!
Cosmic exotic?
cosmic country on a beach? We don't know what to call it, but we're happy it's finding some ears.
recordcratesunited.com/2025/01/19/t...
Limited copies are still available!
Cosmic exotic?
cosmic country on a beach? We don't know what to call it, but we're happy it's finding some ears.
recordcratesunited.com/2025/01/19/t...
Thanks to Heavenworld and JJ Creatian for playing and everyone who came out to the show last night, it was so awesome to see everyone. Our hearts are filled with good vibes today 🥰
Thanks to John at Reverberation Vinyl for hosting as always.
Here are some highlights from the set ✨️
Thanks to John at Reverberation Vinyl for hosting as always.
Here are some highlights from the set ✨️
January 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Thanks to Heavenworld and JJ Creatian for playing and everyone who came out to the show last night, it was so awesome to see everyone. Our hearts are filled with good vibes today 🥰
Thanks to John at Reverberation Vinyl for hosting as always.
Here are some highlights from the set ✨️
Thanks to John at Reverberation Vinyl for hosting as always.
Here are some highlights from the set ✨️