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David Lynch's Deathday
revisit the music of this kinky traditionalist, whose timeless Americana hallucinations may outlive us all.
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My favorite recordings of 2025 🌀 Now Spinning
music that moved me this year & a look my current listening queue
Dec 9, 2025
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welcome to my mixtape delivery service
why I do this Substack
Jul 17, 2025
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Genre Primers (only for paid subscribers)
an AHB's Goodies guide to some genres & musical vibes
Aug 5, 2025
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Hello from Brassland
In 2001 I began a music label with two members of The National. Devoted to collaboration and community rather than a focus on making hits, some have…
Feb 2, 2024
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A Gentle Entrance Into the New Year
some thoughts about boycotting streaming music—plus four instrumental LPs from 2025
Jan 2
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the complete D'Angelo, 1974–2025
mourning an artist who made one of the best LPs by anyone of my generation
Nov 20, 2025
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1942-2013 = Lou Reed = ∞
remembering some times he cast his smile in our general direction
Oct 28, 2025
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Let's All Abandon Reality Together
Music for Yoga in collaboration with artist & yoga teacher Jonathan Bruce Williams
Oct 15, 2025
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"The only thing that can heal America right now is a really great funk album."
a concise mix of monster bass tone, syncopated freedom & swinging blues
Sep 17, 2025
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some music for a 50 year old's birthday party (mine)
a mix cloud of fun, upbeat recordings which you should play on shuffle mode
Jul 21, 2025
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Arone Dyer's Dronechoir
this Saturday, June 28th at Roulette in Brooklyn, NYC
Jun 26, 2025
Bob Dylan, concisely
plus new Brassland projects by Carriers, Buke & Gase and LANZ & a pair of deaths that hit home
Jun 13, 2025
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a family reunion in Dublin, Ireland
a Brassland-curated weekend at the National Concert Hall of Ireland on April 12 + 13
Apr 7, 2025
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Arone Dyer's Cornucopia
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Ray Padgett
Noahpinion
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Network Notes
Darren Hemmings
work stuff
Current Projects
a Linktr.ee of recent projects
an introduction to Brassland
playlists on YouTube, Spotify & Apple Music
Brassland
a music label I co-founded in 2001
LinkedIn
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Harmony Holiday's X account
sick burns, inspired leaps & poetic sanity
Daily Dose of Internet
21st century lifeblog
The Red Right Hand Files
Nick Cave's blog
Josh Korda / Dharma Punx NYC
psychology & Buddhism podcast
Pivot
a podcast by Kara Swisher & Scott Galloway
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
a podcast by Andrew Hickey
my socials
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favorite books
A Chance Meeting : Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists, 1854-1967
by Rachel Cohen
Jesus' Son
by Denis Johnson
Dialogues With Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp with Pierre Cabanne
The Americans
by Robert Frank
Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy
by Dave Hickey
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin
by Lawrence Weschler
recommended recent books
Existential Comics: Selected Stories, 1979–2004
by R. Crumb with editor Dan Nadel
My Life with the Chimpanzees
by Jane Goodall
Pledging My Time: Conversations with Bob Dylan Band Members
by Ray Padgett
33 1/3 series: Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle
by Richard Henderson
The Netanyahus
by Joshua Cohen
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