05/14/2026
Thank you IDIOTEQ.com for premiering the reissue of Car Vs Driver's Deja Grateful. That's right, Stickfigure and Lunchbox Records are re-issuing Deja Grateful by Car Vs Driver.
We will be accepting pre-orders once test pressings have been approved.
The reunion came first. “After nearly 30 years of being in different places, in 2024 we had the chance to play together again,” the band say. “In doing so, we wanted to mark the occasion by bringing the band’s memory into the present. Deja Grateful is an important document in our lives, and it’s been out of print for so long. At its heart it’s about struggle. We poured all of ourselves into it, which makes it still ring true.”
That history sits inside a specific moment in Atlanta. Singer Matt Mauldin describes the early 90s as a hinge point. Hardcore and thrash had been running all-ages bills for years, skinheads still showed up, and the post-hardcore, emo, and DIY threads were only just pushing in from the edges through bands like the Atlanta version of Fiddlehead, Freemasonry, and Scout.
The previous generation, Neon Christ and After Words, had either moved on stylistically or aged out of all-ages venues. Mauldin and bandmate Steve had both helped touring bands put on shows before and during Car vs. Driver’s run. When the band started touring themselves, the reciprocity they got from DIY houses elsewhere came back home with them.
Car vs. Driver existed for two years. Between 1993 and 1995 the Atlanta quartet put out two LPs, an EP, a split EP, a pile of compilation tracks, played
