Michigander

Michigander serves as the creative outlet and informal alias for Jason Singer, a Nashville-based artist who writes songs, sings, produces tracks, and plays guitar. The project surfaced in 2014, when the Michigan-born performer began shaping hook-driven indie rock laced with electronic accents and sincere, expansive narratives that echo the approach of Lord Huron and Mumford & Sons. Commercial traction arrived with the 2021 EP Everything Will Be Ok Eventually, whose standout tracks included “Let Down” and “Better.” Once Singer settled in Nashville, he focused on assembling the band’s debut full-length record, a self-titled collection issued in early 2025.

Raised in Midland, the self-taught multi-instrumentalist spent his early years absorbing influences that ranged from Coldplay and Rush to James Taylor and the White Stripes. After developing his craft through solo performances, he moved to Kalamazoo in 2014 and adopted the Michigander name. The nostalgia-tinged single “Nineties” followed in 2016 and accumulated more than a million streams. Capitalizing on that momentum, Singer expanded the project into a complete band, toured alongside Ra Ra Riot, Tokyo Police Club, and Twin Peaks, and delivered the first EP, Midland, in 2018. A deal with C3 Records came the next year, accompanied by the follow-up EP Where Do We Go from Here? The well-received 2021 release Everything Will Be Ok Eventually again highlighted the streaming favorites “Better” and “Let Down.” After relocating to Nashville, the group opened 2022 with several singles, among them “In My Head,” a collaboration with Manchester Orchestra that later appeared on the fourth EP, It Will Never Be the Same, in 2023. Subsequent 2024 singles “Giving Up” and “Emotional” paved the way for the self-produced, self-titled debut album, which arrived in February 2025 via Thirty Tigers.