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Great Wide Nothing is a long-running independent trio from Atlanta, GA whose original music blends the expansive sounds and ambitious compositional style of vintage prog with the aggressive playing, raw energy, and biting lyrical commentary of punk rock, while also boasting an infectious melodic sensibility, emotional earnestness, and knack for intelligent songcraft owed to the band's deep love for indie/art pop. Add to these the members' respective backgrounds in jazz and metal and it's easy to see what makes them such a unique musical anomaly among their peers in the modern underground.
Formed in 2017 and comprising bassist/vocalist and principal songwriter Daniel Graham, keyboardist/arranger/resident studio wizard Dylan Porper and journeyman drummer Jeff Matthews (also of Tiny Banshee and Sarah and the Safe Word), Great Wide Nothing has operated as a fully DIY enterprise from their inception and have persisted in maintaining a steady trajectory in the face of life-altering personal developments and world events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether out of stubbornness or sheer force of will, they've displayed a level of tenacity, endurance, and creative adaptability rare among even the most seasoned professional acts, and they've continued to grow even as all too many of their contemporaries have folded and fallen by the wayside.
In the span of their career to date, the band has recorded and independently released four internationally-acclaimed studio albums (three of which were entirely self-produced/engineered/mixed) and performed extensively at the regional level and beyond, with their most recent tour in support of their 2025 album "A Shout Into The Void" stretching up the east coast.
Equally as comfortable ripping through a brief set of their hardest-hitting original cuts alongside other local acts in some packed, sweaty basement somewhere as they are flexing their muscles and diving deep into their catalogue as headliners on a festival bill, and as comfortable with the latter as they are mixing their own work with crowd-pleasing covers by the likes of Rush, Yes, The Police, Pink Floyd, The Cure, Tame Impala, Ben Folds, Radiohead, and Muse (just to name a few) in a bar setting, Great Wide Nothing puts on an explosive, captivating, yet eminently off-the-cuff, unpretentious, and just plain fun live show every time.