March 5, 2021
If you were a Christian teen in or around the year in 2000 Sharpied Chuck Taylors, asymmetrical haircut, an unreasonable number of bracelets, thrift store t-shirt then you probably need no introduction to bands like Underøath, Anberlin, Mae, Further Seems Forever, mewithoutYou and so on. You probably wore your first generation iPod’s battery down to the dregs playing
They’re Only Chasing Safety on repeat while reading Rob Bell, testing out the occasional cuss word in conversation with friends and maybe
maybe smoking a clove.
Well, good news. A
lot of your favorite acts from that era will be converging in Birmingham this September for Furnace Fest. This is, of course, pending some fairly significant gains on the COVID-19 pandemic, but that all seems at least somewhat possible and assuming it does happen we’ll all be off to learn how to start a fire all over again.