[4] Shortly after, former Pencey Prep bassist John McGuire joined Fairmont, as did guitarist Kevin Metz.

[5][1] During that year, Fairmont performed at local venues, such as Arlene's Grocery in Manhattan, New York City, with Fighting Gravity and Val Emmich.

[6] By 2005, Fairmont made three tours across the United States, in addition to performing locally with Nada Surf and Ted Leo.

That same year, they released their third full-length Hell is Other People, an album heavily influenced by McGuire's fondness of bands like the Replacements and Hüsker Dü.

[8] Fairmont's fourth full-length Wait & Hope, an up-tempo indie rock album, was released on June 12, 2007.

After writing songs with a female counterpart in mind, Sabatino contacted friend Teeter Sperber, as well singer of The Narrative Suzie Zeldin.

52 in Gary Wien's book Are You Listening?, a listing of his top 100 albums of a decade, which was compiled from a six-month review of over 2,220 releases.

[15] As they finished work on 2017's A Spring Widow, Kisala switched solely to Vibraphone, and the band also saw the addition of Matt Cheplic, a current member of the Bitter Chills, and bassist Mike Burns who formerly played with Sabatino in the punk band Little Green Men in the 1990s.

Their tenth studio album We Will Burn That Bridge When We Get To It was released in 2018, and features Lisa Grabinski on keyboards and vocals.