Big, Dramatic, Rock Guitar Moments: An Interview with Longwave

By Evan Sawdey

Following his departure from RCA, Longwave frontman Steve Schiltz wound up touring with Strokes axe-man Albert Hammond Jr., taking advice from the Edge, and making his best album to date. [7 May 2009]

Longwave: Secrets Are Sinister

By Evan Sawdey

Secrets Are Sinister is the kind of comeback album that a band like Longwave not only needs, but, surprisingly, actually deserves. [20 November 2008]

Longwave: There’s a Fire

By Joon Kim

Yet another band of State-side Anglophiliacs, this time pilfering wholesale from the corpse of early '90s shoegazers. Thanks, but no thanks: we've been there, done that, and paid the import prices far too many times. [2 September 2005]

Longwave: The Strangest Things

By Tim Slowikowski

They look like the Strokes. They’re friends with the Strokes. They’re on the same label as the Strokes. They’re from New York like the Strokes. If it looks like the Strokes and walks like the Strokes, does it sound as good as the Strokes?

Longwave: Endsongs

By Eden Miller

Recalling the earlier days of Radiohead and jangly-guitar work of U2, Longwave’s debut Endsongs possesses a dark subtlety that is fascinatingly challenging in light of most of today’s empty modern rock.

Longwave - “Sirens in the Deep Sea” (video)