Before Longwave formed, Schiltz played guitar in a band called Scout, featuring vocalist Ashen Keilyn.
A few months after Schiltz left his hometown of Rochester, New York, he returned to play regular gigs at the Blue Sunday coffee house with a group called the Deaf Aides, named for John Lennon's comments that open the Let It Be album.
The band, based in New York City, found its initial audience by performing a series of shows at the Luna Lounge club on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Three videos were produced for this album, including "Everywhere You Turn," which was directed by writer-director Daedalus Howell and featured Longwave performing at the Echo in Los Angeles.
After several successful years of touring the UK and US, and the release of a 2004 EP Life of the Party, Longwave returned to the studio to record their third album, There's a Fire.
Parting ways with RCA, they released their fourth album, Secrets Are Sinister, on November 11, 2008, on the Original Signal Recordings label and mounted a national tour with Blue October.