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3 August 2026 – Now It’s Overhead Break a Twenty-Year Silence
By Editorial Team - August 3, 2026
Summary
Athens, Georgia indie-rock project Now It's Overhead led by Andy LeMaster announce new music and live shows after a two-decade hiatus.
Key Facts
- Now It's Overhead announce first new music and live shows in 20 years.
- Led by Athens, Georgia producer and multi-instrumentalist Andy LeMaster.
- Associated with Saddle Creek and early-2000s atmospheric indie rock.
- Entities: Now It's Overhead, Andy LeMaster, Saddle Creek, Bright Eyes, Cursive, The Faint
- Tags: now-its-overhead, andy-lemaster, saddle-creek, athens-georgia, indie-rock, reunion
Athens, Georgia project Now It’s Overhead have announced their first new music and live appearance in approximately twenty years in indie rock.
The return is a significant moment for listeners who followed the atmospheric side of the early-2000s American indie-rock movement. Led by producer and multi-instrumentalist Andy LeMaster, the band combined intimate songwriting with electronic textures, carefully layered guitars and arrangements that could move from bedroom-scale vulnerability to cinematic intensity.
Their association with Saddle Creek placed them beside a generation that included Bright Eyes, Cursive and The Faint, while LeMaster’s production and collaborative work extended their influence well beyond the band’s own catalogue. The group’s return is being treated as more than a nostalgic reunion because it includes newly created material rather than simply a run through older favourites. Full release details are still emerging, but the announcement opens the possibility of an entirely new chapter for a project whose records have quietly retained a devoted audience during its long absence.