It wasn’t easy getting Ian Metzger off his ass to play some rock ‘n’ roll again. He’d burned out on the band life early, when his high school Christian rock group, Justified, turned out to be the kind ...

Energy radiates from Ian Metzger's frenetic vocals and the crashing and thrashing of the electric guitars and percussion in "I'm Not Crying. You're Not Crying, Are You?" This opening track, on Dear ...

Long-distance relationships aren't exclusively for romance. Just ask the members of local band Dear and the Headlights, who've played together for more than six months with lead singer Ian Metzger ...

The Equal Vision-signed folk rock band Dear and the Headlights sadly departed after just two records in the late ’00s, but singer Ian Metzger and drummer Mark Kulvinskas brought our spirits back up ...

It’s mid-afternoon at The Tiniest Bar in Texas, and Dear and the Headlights have just finished playing the fourth and final show they’re cramming into four days at South by Southwest, a music industry ...

Welcome to Daytrotter Parallel Lines If Not For My Glasses I’m Not Crying You’re Not Crying… Bad News Ian Metzger sings, “I haven’t felt this way in a long time,” on “Bad News” and then he sings it ...