Will Lindsay joins the show to talk about his new project Buying Fireworks In Indiana. I originally met Will through interviewing his other project Caracara back in 2022 while they were on tour in Chicago. Through some circumstances of fate Will found himself living in Chicago and since him and I have become fast friends. This chat encompassess Will’s journey of founding Buying Fireworks In Indiana, the creative challenges that have fueled it, how current and past experiences have helped from a new venture, tackling the abstract challenge of making art on social media, and of course the music that helped inspire it.
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.
Links:
Web / Newsletter: https://buyingfire.works/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2fSit0fOVH1HGhF1u5cGSg
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@buyingfireworks
Insta / Threads: @buyingfireworks
PI.FYI: https://www.pi.fyi/u/buyingfireworks
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This was a great casual chat and I hope you’ll check out the new music Will has coming at the end of this month.
