🗽New Yorkers: This Saturday, November 22nd at 11am I’m co-hosting the launch of Bootsy Holler’s ‘Making It‘ — a book of photos depicting music life in the Pacific NW in the late 90s & early 00s. Joining us is @nabilayers.bsky.social 📍🗺️ at Leica Gallery, 406 W. 13th St, Manhattan, NYC

London 2025: royalty but make it fashion.

London 2025: royalty but make it fashion.

I just re-shared a thing I wrote about Lou Reed's smile. Here's a Tweet-length summary: "Lou Reed cared about art long after he could have stopped caring." 🖇️ alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/lou-reed-1942-2013

🟢 a playlist containing some selections I've been enjoying a lot in 2025

🟢 a playlist containing some selections I've been enjoying a lot in 2025

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

My semi-regular reminder of a really important reality about cities, density, services and taxes. Original graphic cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath

I just re-shared a thing I wrote about Lou Reed's smile. Here's a Tweet-length summary: "Lou Reed cared about art long after he could have stopped caring." 🖇️ alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/lou-reed-1942-2013

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P4K should let readers add their own “palpable sense of” sentence to reviews.

New to my mixtape delivery service: Let’s All Abandon Reality Together — 60 mins of Music for Yoga made with artist Jonathan Bruce Williams. alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/music-for-yoga Inspired by his show of LED lightboxes at Kai Matsumiya gallery, 264 Canal St, NYC through October 25. 🎈 🧘🏻 🛰️

In case motion graphics induce vertigo, here's the address for our Wednesday event in a simple flyer.

IS NOT MUSIC. Issue 02 Zine Release Party 🕰 Wednesday, Oct 22, 6–8PM 📍 Abraço, 81 E 7th St, Manhattan, NYC Come hang & celebrate the release of Is Not Music. 02 — feat. writing on or by Van Dyke Parks, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Q Lazzarus, Jesse Rifkin, Taja Cheek (L’Rain), eli berry & Owen Pallett.

Note to self: listen to D’Angelo’s 'Voodoo'—and remind others to do the same. No doubt one of the best albums released in my lifetime, and possibly my favorite LP released since the year 2000.

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This AI slop was generated from photo I used as cover art on the latest edition of my mixtape delivery service. Because I’ll do whatever it takes to introduce you to some music you’ve probably never heard before. alechanleybemis.substack.com

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Just posted a new entry to my mixtape delivery service. No, a great funk album will NOT save America. But I do think deep & complex music's an antidote to brain rot. And you can't spend all your time protesting or you'll be a spent force. ❤️‍🔥 📼 alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/funk-album-heals-america

We believe healthcare is a right for every American. But starting today, millions of people will be notified that they are being priced out of their insurance thanks to Republican policies. Enough is enough. The GOP may shut down the government, but we will stand tall for YOU.

I’m enjoying ‘Getting Killed’ — the new record by the rock band Geese.

"an expansive, tightly constructed album that many will hail as the album of the year" Thx to @theguardian.com & writer Shaad D’Souza for this deep keiyaA profile. She voices thoughts you won’t hear from a typical artist... www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Just posted a new entry to my mixtape delivery service. No, a great funk album will NOT save America. But I do think deep & complex music's an antidote to brain rot. And you can't spend all your time protesting or you'll be a spent force. ❤️‍🔥 📼 alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/funk-album-heals-america

Today Briars of North America released a new song called “The Pride Before The Fall” (first half of the song here, the rest in all the usual places) Their mini-album IN DEATH OR DREAMING is out next Monday on the autumn equinox, September 22nd. 🌱 brassland.ffm.to/idod

🌈 💻 by artist Jonathan Bruce Williams

I think about this 50 year old Martin Carthy recording all the time. Sounds about time to tap in on his new LP. youtu.be/LXrfmatBb0Y

Talking Heads' bassist Tina Weymouth in Vogue, August 1985 | 📷 Oliverio Toscani

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I just posted a dozen playlists exploring different genres — filtered through one human’s biased, eclectic lens. (Hi, it’s me.) Think of them as mixtape-style introductions, not encyclopedic deep-dives. The playlists live here → alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/genre-primers

New to my mixtape delivery service is a 17 hour mix cloud designed for shuffle mode. Find it at alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/some-music-for-a-50-year-olds-birthday That's Prem with the 🟣 He curated chunks of it. Includes André 3000, The Cure, Men I Trust, Molchat Doma, Erykah Badu, etc.

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Polaroid of Bob Dylan on the tv. [📷 George Harrison]

btw did you know you can subscribe to PBS for only like $5/mo or a $60 one-time for a year donation, and get access to their Passport streaming service? They mail you a little live programming guide and everything, too. The 40-something seasons of NOVA alone are worth it.

I posted a party playlist to the Internet: 🖇️ alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/welcome-to-my-mixtape-delivery-service I hope you like listening to it as much as I enjoyed hanging out with friends while playing it out loud.

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No Blood on the Tracks! No Desire! Neither "Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues" nor "Hava Nagila!" From Budokan, the skronking "Don't Think Twice It's All Right" but not the mighty rhumba of "One More Cup of Coffee for the Road!" God bless Alec for getting kinky with it.

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Saturday June 28th: Arone Dyer's Dronechoir at @roulettenyc.bsky.social 509 Atlantic Ave Brooklyn, NY 11217 🌐 details at roulette.org/event/arone-dyers-dronechoir 🌐

Absurdly, I tried to capture Bob Dylan's essence in a single 3.5 hour playlist. It includes 30 recordings by Dylan, 15 cover versions of his songs & 1 sick burn by Joan Baez. 🖇️ alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/bob-dylan-concisely Summarizing Dylan's an impossible task but it’s still a great listen.

My longtime collaborator Arone Dyer recently launched her Substack. She’s a great musician but the story she’s telling is mostly about…volunteer firefighting! 🖇️ aronedyer.substack.com

❤️‍🔥 A beautiful, warm-hearted record by one of the greatest voices ever to capture the feeling of fragility and loss—here singing about the greatest loss a person can endure, when their wife and creative partner were one and the same. alansparhawk.bandcamp.com/album/with-t...

Wrote a thing for @artforum.com about a recent album I liked called "Song of the Earth" Pretty cool this dude shared it. 🤯

Felt on the nose. (And not just as my excuse for not posting more to socials.) www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

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It is #thankyoustevealbini day. I still think of this guy all the time. A playlist & tribute… open.substack.com/pub/alechanl...

I’m pretty psyched on a pair of records my label @brassland.bsky.social put out last Friday. So much so that I’ve remembered to alert yet-another short-text social media network.