Tim Fite

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"A lo-fi lone wolf from Brooklyn, Tim Fite is somewhere between folk and hip-hop, and with his latest album - a harsh indictment of consumerism and the American dream of selling out - he has made himself into a cultural gadfly."
-The New York Times

"I only hope that my band fails badly enough that one day we end up in Tim Fite's graveyard, next in line for the blood machine."
- Jay Mokes of Gang-Plank



Tim Fite is on a noble quest - to reverse the effects of musical mortality. From the musical-graveyard surrounding his Brooklyn, NY haunt, where bins of CDs are left used and abandoned, Tim Fite is working to reanimate the corpses of those countless under-appreciated and overlooked songs that, due to misunderstanding and/or maltreatment, have sadly lost their will to go on. The result of Mr. Fite's exploration of musical necromancy is an engaging collection of songs entitled "Gone Ain't Gone." Deeply steeped in the contradictory traditions of the country and hip-hop genres, "Gone Ain't Gone" bridges a vast cultural void, connecting a deep seeded respect for our troubled (yet sonically rich) past with a cavalier glimpse at a half harrowing-half hopeful future. Although much of the music can be lumped into the established categories of alt-country and americana music, Tim Fite's debut album is neither of these things, exactly. Instead, it is the aural manifestation of simultaneity and contradiction: a hip-hop record that sounds like folk music, a loop-based record that feels organic, a socialist record that is essentially anti-social, a prophesy record about the good old days, a concept record with no concept, an easy record for hard times, a living record made from dead music.