Make Believe (band)

{{Short description|American indie rock band}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox musical artist

|name = Make Believe

|image = Make Believe.jpg

|caption = Make Believe live in 2006

|background = group_or_band

|origin = Chicago, Illinois, United States

|genre = Math rock, indie rock

|years_active = 2003–2008

|label = Flameshovel Records

|associated_acts = Joan of Arc
The Promise Ring
Owls
Cap'n Jazz

| spinoff_of = Joan of Arc

| past_members = Tim Kinsella
Sam Zurick
Bobby Burg
Nate Kinsella

|website =

}}

Make Believe was an indie rock band, initially formed in Chicago, Illinois in 2003 as a touring version of Joan of Arc. The band was composed of lead vocalist Tim Kinsella,{{cite web|url=http://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/epk-tim-kinsella-sings-the-songs-of-marvin-tate-by-leroy-bach-featuring-angel-olsen.html |title=Tim Kinsella et al// Joyful Noise Recordings |accessdate=October 31, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101232130/http://www.joyfulnoiserecordings.com/epk-tim-kinsella-sings-the-songs-of-marvin-tate-by-leroy-bach-featuring-angel-olsen.html |archivedate=November 1, 2013 }} guitarist Sam Zurick, bassist Bobby Burg, and drummer/keyboardist Nate Kinsella. After 3 months of touring as Joan of Arc, the quartet returned home and decided to begin writing new songs with a more aggressive approach.{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5649-make-believe/|title=Make Believe: Make Believe Album Review {{!}} Pitchfork|website=pitchfork.com|language=en|access-date=June 3, 2018}} Following a self-titled 5 track EP, their first full-length Shock of Being was released on October 4, 2005, followed by Of Course in 2006.

June 20, 2007, Tim Kinsella announced on the Joan of Arc website that he was no longer a member of Make Believe. He attributed his departure to feeling a lessening connection to the "rock band lifestyle", and to a desire to spend more time with his wife.{{Cite news|url=http://www.talkhouse.com/artist/tim-kinsella/|title=Tim Kinsella|work=Talkhouse|access-date=June 3, 2018|language=en-US}} The same announcement stated that Kinsella had "a pile of new songs to pull from for a new Joan of Arc record." The entry implied that the band would continue without Kinsella, but Kinsella returned to the band at the outset of their spring 2008 tour.{{Cite web|url=http://www.flameshovel.com/makebelieve.php|title=Flameshovel Records|website=www.flameshovel.com|access-date=June 3, 2018}} The band then disbanded the same year.