Parking Garage is a rock power trio originating from Milledgeville, Georgia, with Nathan Whatley on guitar, Dakota Snow on bass, and Zach Ross on drums. It all started in 2017 as a passion project between Whatley and Snow in high school, recording for countless hours on Whatley's Blue Snowball microphone in Snow's grandma's spare room. The band's name came from the songs Snow wrote while waiting in the parking garage to see his dying grandfather in the hospital. The results became their debut album, Jaguar, released in February 2019.
Wanting to perform this set live, Whatley and Snow initially recruited Casey O'Neal, a college friend, in late 2018 to play drums. This resulted in their sound condensing down to the three instruments so as to produce a more accurate representation of them in a live setting. With this new and more streamlined set-up, Parking Garage released a batch of tracks during May 2020, the Summer Bummer EP, the first to be produced by Athens legend Jesse Mangum.
Taking a hiatus during 2021 to focus on school and avoiding COVID, the boys returned once more for a new set of songs in 2022, produced by up and coming indie producer Tommy Trautwein of Well Kept. Trying to merge the "throw everything to the wall" style of their debut album and the minimalist approach of Mangum's production came If We Haven't Said It Already. With themes studying the fear of trying to find your own self in a setting or trying to appease to everyone and learning what it means to be human, the new EP became one of Parking Garage's most personal records yet.
Inevitably, O'Neal left the band in August 2022 to focus on grad school, leaving Zach Ross to cover for drum duties. With the band moving to Athens come 2023, Parking Garage is looking to make a huge splash come the next few years given their consistent show schedule, recording regiment and energetic performances all around!