Deli sandwich while walking: Wretched, humiliating? Or sublime, freeing?
Brendan Landis
@slownames.bsky.social
Guy from the band Receive, drummer in Star Card, FKA Hey Exit https://brendanlandis.com/ https://slownames.bandcamp.com/ https://ampwall.com/a/receive
Spent 7 hours reading and drilling charts today. RIP Sonny Rollins.
Dreamed I was in a building that was flooding from ceiling down to floor.
Been thinking a lot recently about first steps toward good jukebox software (like Plex or Swinsian - software that uses files you own), and one of the very first steps to me seems to be standardization of music metadata. Basically, ID3 tag frames, and keeping those in sync with a database. (1/7)
When the music is quiet, it is not possible for it to be quiet enough. When the music is loud, it is not possible for it to be loud enough.
Writing over on substack about practice, prog, dream writing, drumming: receiveband.substack.com/p/four-thoug...
Four Thoughts
On returning to practice and a practice.
receiveband.substack.com
Finally getting my hands dirty with Renoise after a couple years of hearing it call to me. Many internal voices running self-doubt bangers e.g. "yr too old to learn new things" (I learn new things all the time??) or "this is gonna sound bad" (yes?? so??). Doin it anyway, feelin the burn as they say!
Got a little sidebar going on the Writing page of my personal site. Safe to say I have a real blog again! brendanlandis.com/writing
brendan landis :: writing
personal blog plus band stuff
brendanlandis.com
I've just discovered the Aadam Jacobs Collection (@ajcproject.mas.to.ap.brid.gy), holy shit: archive.org/details/aada... Grabbed some old shows from Fugazi, Boredoms, Slint, Flipper, Need New Body, Cinematic Orchestra, a few others. Lot of surprises in this archive, what a rad project!
ajcproject.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
Recos from streaming apps or social media should always be regarded as sponcon.
Peretsky@peretsky.bsky.social · 4mo agoyou should discover new music by accident. go to small shows where you haven't heard of most of the artists. dig in the crates of a record store and ask the person working there for a recommendation. ask your friends what's been in their ear recently.
I wrote a bit about joyfully maintaining a 1.5TB mp3 library in 2026: brendanlandis.com/writing/on-l... (My personal web site is still under construction and some parts look weird, sorry! Embarrassing as a frontend guy but whatever.)
brendan landis :: On Listening 01: How I Keep a Music Library (It Shouldn’t Be This Hard)
my personal blog, photos, and music
brendanlandis.com
This. I think of "content" as one of those terms made up by the ad industry to do two things: - sneak slop and ads onto the shelf next to works of genuine cultural value - blur the lines between themselves ("creatives"!) and people who make works of genuine cultural value
jj skolnik@supremenothing.myatproto.social · 4mo agoi do not want to make content. i want to make music and i want to write. i do not want to make content
Been going out every night for the past week or so and I feel w i p e d !
hart bar house kit tallest hihat stand in america. @dollartree.bsky.social you know i'm right. it's time to face facts
Oh ALSO Receive is playing a couple shows this week. We're at Sleepwalk on Thursday with our buds Gilah plus Ded En. Then Friday we're in Long Island at Lithology Brewing, with There Are No Tigers / Screaming from the Gallery / Anna Altman / Book Spirit. Come hang out!
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n... How wild that it took over 30 years of research to confirm the authorship of these two pieces.
Two long-lost organ pieces by JS Bach performed for first time in 300 years
Archive director in Germany says ‘missing piece of puzzle’ now in place to verify authorship after decades of research
theguardian.com
Saw Stereolab for the first time and they were SO good
I have moved my band's little newsletter over to substack! Maybe you'd like to subscribe? receiveband.substack.com
Receive | Substack
Weird loud band from Queens. Posts by Brendan. Click to read Receive, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
receiveband.substack.com
An old fav new age album that came up on random just now. Not a style that I write in or that usually resonates with me, but sometimes you get a reco from a friend and it sticks. williamackerman.bandcamp.com/album/sound-...
Sound of Wind Driven Rain, by William Ackerman
11 track album
williamackerman.bandcamp.com
Walking home from tracking vocals, saw a plane flying under a half moon and it made me wanna go write some more
Hello! My birthday's coming up, and Receive will be playing a show in celebration, at Gold Sounds, on 9/11. (Real bday is on the 12th.) Also on the bill are the homies Bad Trips, Death Drive, and Dirtbag Ivy. It's going to be a real fun night, even moreso with your company. Ok sick!
