Alec Hanley Bemis
@alechanleybemis.bsky.social
Check out my mixtape delivery service: alechanleybemis.substack.com Founded Brassland.org. I help artists—and manage & curate creative projects. Current stuff at http://linktr.ee/a_h_b Be brave & be kind ❤️🔥
🖇️ orcd.co/glen ❤️🔥 I made a playlist for those who’ve never had the privilege of going in and deeper in to the music of Glen Hansard. Glen blurred that line between someone always in search of an audience, and someone who sang just because they knew how magic it was to sing a song.
Glen Hansard, Swell Season & The Frames: 30 Recordings, 23 of Hi
More info at alechanleybemis.substack.com
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🌐 encoreconcerts.fm/u/alechanleybemis ❤️🔥 First time I've greeted something on the internet with actual excitement since discovering Letterboxd a while back. Keep hope alive. Good job & good luck @aoffitzer.bsky.social
Encore — Concert Diary & Show Tracker
Track every show you've been to, rate sets, share notes with friends, and discover what's playing near you. The concert diary app for live music fans.
encoreconcerts.fm
🌐 encoreconcerts.fm/u/alechanleybemis ❤️🔥 First time I've greeted something on the internet with actual excitement since discovering Letterboxd a while back. Keep hope alive. Good job & good luck @aoffitzer.bsky.social
Encore — Concert Diary & Show Tracker
Track every show you've been to, rate sets, share notes with friends, and discover what's playing near you. The concert diary app for live music fans.
encoreconcerts.fm
this image lives rent free in my head as the saying goes
Watched this film for the first time last night at a small screening in Williamsburg. I'd never seen it before because, when it came out in 1995, I was living adjacent to the world it depicts. Why watch it when you can live it? Thank you @spectacletheater.com
We aimed to select music that captures The Good Eye's vibe: spooky but playful, sensual but complicated, polished on the surface but messy and human if you crack open the façade. Book info & ordering details for at jessgibson.ca
Jess Gibson
Jess Gibson’s debut book of twelve stories will be published on May 12, 2026.
jessgibson.ca
My spouse Jess Gibson just published The Good Eye, her debut short story collection. We made a playlist inspired by it—her description was "a mixtape about rats, ghosts, and death." 👁️ alechanleybemis.substack.com/the-good-eye 👁️
🌐 alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/bob-dylan-concisely 🌐 Today is Bob Dylan's 85th birthday. About a year ago, I published a few playlists honoring him on my mixtape delivery service. I'm doing that social media thing where you share an old post on a day it has renewed relevance for the algorithms…
Bob Dylan, concisely
plus new Brassland projects by Carriers, Buke & Gase and LANZ & a pair of deaths that hit home
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#ThankYouSteveAlbini — an eternal reminder that music and the music business can be done in an idiosyncratic yet successful way. My memories of, and tribute to, Steve Albini, along with a playlist summarizing his work, are here: 🖇️ alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/steve-albini
🖇️ alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/krautrock-chat 🌐 I collaborated with zensounds creator Stephan Kunze on a long conversation about Krautrock—which he helpfully reframes as German avant-garde rock (1968–1977). (He’s actually German.)
why yes there is a Bob Dylan installment of my mixtape delivery service 🖇️ alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/bob-dylan-concisely
🖇️ alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/krautrock-chat 🌐 I collaborated with zensounds creator Stephan Kunze on a long conversation about Krautrock—which he helpfully reframes as German avant-garde rock (1968–1977). (He’s actually German.)
Can I assume all my fellow nerds are already familiar with this insanely beautiful solo piano record?
Su Tissue - Salon de Musique (full album)
YouTube video by Germán Cipriano
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timeline cleanse. cuts off at the 3:00 minute mark due to the limitations of this platform. find the whole thing on YouTube & other places.
Brassland@brassland.bsky.social · 5mo agoAhead of Buke & Gase's NY Farewell gigs in April, here is another clip from their documentary & concert film. “Bottom of the Barolo” is from DRY DANIEL, the 2014 “lost album” finally released to their Scholars Alliance in 2020. Arone Dyer: “It’s about being drunk… but it’s not about being drunk."
Yeah, still rips. Arone Dyer has one of the greatest smiles ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wQv...
Buke And Gass: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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Mark Lanegan died four years ago today in the same stretch of time as the death of The Sadie’s’ Dallas Gooid & the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine. It presaged a dark era to come… 🖤 alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/lanegan-and-the-sadies
Remembering Mark Lanegan & The Sadies' Dallas Good
Artist primers on two beloved musicians, recently passed
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On David Lynch’s death day (January 16th) I shared a 140-min playlist exploring the sound world he created for his films. 🖇️ alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/david-lynch What does night-blooming jasmine on a Hollywood summer night sound like?
I am not as good at spotting music AI slop as I am at spotting AI writing (which affects me like a cheese-grater on the soul). However, someone said to me a few weeks ago: doesn’t the But shuffle music on Spotify sound *cheaper* now than the music on Apple Music? And now I can’t un-hear it.
Apple Music isn’t serving AI stuff in its pre-made mixes - they are still curated by a human editor - and Spotify is, and curates algorithmically. That’s the sound of AI music, it sounds cheap.
periodic reminder that your creative and artistic work has ripple effects beyond your field of view, and that it's good for your soul and happiness, and yes that's important. please keep going, keep making and sharing, especially when it's grim. don't ever stop, we need you
Hiya, I’m on @letterboxd.social if you’re on there: letterboxd.com/alechanleybemis Truly embracing any excuse to spend less time… here.
