Very kind review of my latest, INFINITE NORMAL, on the Other People’s Music blog 😄 www.etherdiver.com/2025/11/27/o...

Can’t wait for the inevitable firehose of ai-generated holiday music to start in the next 2 weeks

ok so i did it: here's SOLO PIANO 2 it's exclusively up at cult of lightbulbs. free to stream, optional pay to download in any format. cult.kidlightbulbs.com/solo-piano-2

the great thing about having a self-hosted music site with zero fees or strings is that i can impulsively upload an album of piano music i impulsively recorded and you can just listen to it so i'll probably do that later today cult.kidlightbulbs.com #faircamp #diy #indieweb #music

I am so excited about this one: Buffer now has a fully-packed comment management toolset built in 😊 It's called Community! The whole idea is that building an audience on social isn't just about posting bangers all the time. You need to engage with those folks too.

I may or may not have just impulsively recorded a second album of #piano music

Hey have you heard my latest album yet? It’s called INFINITE NORMAL and tbh it’s pretty timely 😬 If you’re into alternative rock, dry & honest lyricism, and minimalist sprawl, you may dig it. cult.kidlightbulbs.com/infinite-nor...

okay, powered through and wrote up a li'l thing about my new Faircamp site, cult of lightbulbs bgreen.lol/i-built-my-o...

This is arguably the feature I'm most excited that we're bringing to @buffer.com since I joined the team. A calm (seriously, it's so... just calm) way of keeping up with your community across social platforms. It's truly going to be wonderful for all types of creators. Coming next Wednesday 😉

Something I thought would be fun: a diagram illustrating all the connective tissue across my music. So I made one in Figjam. I present to you: The Kid Lightbulbs song map buff.ly/a7wyjBO This does not go entirely into the archives, but shows the recurring references & motifs across my 4 albums.

Major dad mode this afternoon

Thank you everyone who came to my listening party for INFINITE NORMAL yesterday! These are always fun. As another means to celebrate, I just published a big ol' 3200-word mess called "the INFINITE NORMAL story" on my blog.

I'm doing a li'l listening party on Bandcamp this afternoon (evening if you're further east than me!) for my new album infinite normal! Come hang out? (and if you do, be sure to show up a couple minutes early, these things always start *right* on time 😬) kidlightbulbs.bandcamp.com/merch/infini...

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“Making great things requires immense patience”, he said to himself as he repeatedly swiped to refresh his feed to see if more people liked this thought

I think the thing that bothers me most about the whole "use AI to generate music" thing is that it's not hard at all anymore to express oneself creatively *without* AI Friendly reminders:

I'm gonna do a listening party for INFINTE NORMAL on Bandcamp! Next Thursday, 1pm ET / 10am PT / 7pm central europe time This time I'd love to have European friends around to hang out and listen to the album. RSVP here: kidlightbulbs.bandcamp.com/merch/infini...

Today I said "screw preorders, YOLO" INFINITE NORMAL is out! Listen to the whole thing now, consider a purchase. Pay what you like (minimum asking price $5 because, hey, it's a whole freaking album). I'll schedule a listening party soon, but for now: kidlightbulbs.bandcamp.com/album/infini...

I'm going to open up a preorder for INFINITE NORMAL (kid lightbulbs lp4) probably today or tomorrow. I haven't yet gotten a test pressing of the CD edition and I want to make sure it is all looking good first before I "publish" that. So here's the deal:

I used to worship the time The time where we could just leave But now I know that I’m needed Sometimes I need a release But I can’t fill up my lungs And I used to feel so young And I’m not sure it’s true but I convince myself that I don’t have much time to live 11.7

I came across something in Derek Sivers’ bio that stopped me in my tracks – the idea that he does not like live music, and instead much prefers “great recordings.” It me

Reframing my music release strategy to this: I don't care much about maximizing reach anymore. I release music for myself, friends, and current & potential followers of my work. I go about finding those potential followers in community spaces where I can be myself and my ideas resonate.

You have to be optimistic. It's really hard right now to be, but you kind of have to. Otherwise you just give into the cynicism that led to this mess in the first place.

If I did another Bandcamp listening party for LP4, would you come to it?

infinite normal track sequence 👀

The single most prominent influence on the sound of my next album INFINITE NORMAL is probably the work of Ethel Cain Which is weird to think about because some people consider her an "americana" artist and I very much do not consider myself this

okay, now that the singles are out of the way: INFINITE NORMAL, kid lightbulbs album 4, will drop November 7. It'll have both a digital and physical (CD) release. Running time: 70:23 (this is why no vinyl...for now)

"performance" (the single edit) is now out on your streaming service of choice. listen anywhere you like: artists.landr.com/057829625167

The music to which I am the most productive continues to be Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross' soundtrack to "the girl with the dragon tattoo" I don't know why but nothing else focuses me as well as this one, sprawling, terrifying 3-hour soundtrack

Getting so unbelievably psyched for what we're shipping over the next few months at @buffer We're effectively making it so much easier to stay in the loop here (the community) without actually needing to be here (the infinite feed of rage) Couple of things coming as soon as this/next month

Grateful for everyone who has checked out "performance" (and its remixes) so far! As a li'l reminder - it's also dropping to streaming on Friday. This will be my last streaming release for a while, possibly ever, because... you can probably figure out the myriad reasons why.

PERFORMANCE VERSIONS is out🤘🏻 This is a Bandcamp-exclusive EP containing five different takes (plus a coda!) on the newest Kid Lightbulbs single, "performance", from my upcoming album INFINITE NORMAL.

Considering how much of the political discourse around our impending government shutdown is completely made-up performative garbage, I think my releasing a single called “performance” this week will end up pretty timely 👹

“performance” will be the last thing I publish to a streaming service for the foreseeable future. That release will be a “single edit” (meaning it’s not technically the whole 8.5-minute album cut, so you still are in for a treat at album time).

oh man, i forgot how cool and weird of an album "dangerous" by michael jackson is

Something I've very excited about for my next single, "performance", is that it's actually a collaborative EP containing 5 different takes on the song. My internet friend ilyBBY contributes not one, but *two* remixes, and Brenna Menz's vocal stylings are all over the thing.

I think my next single will be the last one I put on a streaming service. I’m done. In sum it’s just not worth the trouble. Yes I don’t like Spotify nor the streaming model in general for many reasons, but also it’s just not working for what I want to make & I need to stop acting like it is.

Probably going to livestream some solo piano tonight, for anyone looking for some Saturday night zen. youtube.com/@kidlightbulbs

my last single was an angry anxious rant about surviving late capitalism, so it's only fitting that my next single is going to be an angry jaded rant about the performative nature of late capitalism it's appropriately titled: "performance". @brennamenz.com is on it. 10/3 bandcamp, 10/10 streaming

Terrifying shower thought: With social platforms leaning harder & harder into personalized algorithmic experiences, and more people relying on these to stay connected, what is a zeitgeist anymore? Does the idea of something being "in the zeitgeist" just go away over time?

In case you missed it, my newest single "the grass is quicksand" has an intentional callback to a song from my first album, "oxycodone", in the bridge. Two very different energies. Both are about survival in late capitalism.

I am thrilled to announce "the grass is quicksand", the second single off my upcoming album INFINITE NORMAL, in time for the next Bandcamp Friday.

An experiment: I've decided to make all my music pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp. You can now get the entire Kid Lightbulbs discography for free if you like! All I ask is for your email address – this also gets you reliable updates anytime I release something new. Why am I doing this? 👇

I don't post about enough is my Bandcamp subscription thingy enough. $5/month and you get all my non-album releases, plus a bunch of bonus music (early/alternate versions, instrumentals, stems perhaps), more backstory from me (I'll commit to this if more people join!), plus a merch discount.

sorry i don't make the rules

"the grass is quicksand", the single i'm dropping next week, is inspired directly by the here & now. it's controlled chaos. it's sarcastic frustration in song form. it's relentless like the relentlessness of creeping fascism & nihilism all around us.

Just got paid for my first mixing gig since becoming an active musician again 🥹

it's wild how much more affordable the internet becomes once you learn a little command line stuff

you know your next album does not mess around when the session file for the centerpiece has a track called "yelling"

I love working in dark mode so much that sometimes I forget to disable it when sharing @buffer.com screenshots, even though it's not done and still being tested internally 😅 I guess this is a backhanded way of saying dark mode is finally coming to Buffer on web! Likely late summer / early fall.