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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…
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A CONVERSATION ABOUT BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND
with Taja Cheek and eli berry
Published on IS NOT MUSIC. • 
Song of the Earth, Songs About Money, part one
A shift in planetary perspective, from Stewart Brand's whole Earth photograph to Dirty Projectors' climate-era song cycle. Part 1 of a 2 part series.
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A Gentle Entrance Into the New Year
some thoughts about boycotting streaming music—plus four instrumental LPs from 2025
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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
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1942-2013 = Lou Reed = ∞
remembering some times he cast his smile in our general direction
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Let's All Abandon Reality Together
Music for Yoga in collaboration with artist & yoga teacher Jonathan Bruce Williams
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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
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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
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AHB's Goodies
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Recommendations
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Whatever Works
Whatever Works
Naomi Alderman
Letters of Note
Letters of Note
Shaun Usher
Flagging Down the Double E's
Flagging Down the Double E's
Ray Padgett
Doomscroll
Doomscroll
Joshua Citarella
THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE
THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE
Chris Richards
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
currently following
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
Instagram
Spotify
Threads™️
X
BlueSky
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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