why yes there is a Bob Dylan installment of my mixtape delivery service 🖇️ alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/bob-dylan-concisely

🖇️ alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/krautrock-chat 🌐

I collaborated with zensounds creator Stephan Kunze on a long conversation about Krautrock—which he helpfully reframes as German avant-garde rock (1968–1977).

(He’s actually German.)

A long chat about Krautrock with zensounds' Stephan Kunze part 2: a conversation between me and zensounds' Stephan Kunze

It’s been gratifying to hear from old friends who reached out to say the conversation meant something to them.

As usual, I also put together a playlist featuring recordings from the genre and artists influenced by it.

🖇️ alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/krautrock-chat 🌐

🖇️ alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/krautrock-chat 🌐

I collaborated with zensounds creator Stephan Kunze on a long conversation about Krautrock—which he helpfully reframes as German avant-garde rock (1968–1977).

(He’s actually German.)

because he leads the country 🤦‍♂️ & it’s good to have a vague, verbatim awareness of where we’re being led 🕳️

anyone who suggests an exclusive focus on “personal liberties and free markets" should be distrusted, and probably shunned

Su Tissue - Salon de Musique (full album) YouTube video by Germán Cipriano

Can I assume all my fellow nerds are already familiar with this insanely beautiful solo piano record?

I’m happy to bring the general condemnation ha ha (for the place I freelanced for a half-dozen times with great pleasure)

Great institution w/ an increasingly challenging set of expectations, echoing the difficulties faced by great institutions like the US & democracy itself. 🙌❤️‍🔥🙏

timeline cleanse.
cuts off at the 3:00 minute mark due to the limitations of this platform. find the whole thing on YouTube & other places.

Omg love this thank you for surfacing it 🖤🐬

appreciate you surfacing these articles side by side. read them both. very interesting, as they say…
also I ♥️ the NYT.
also this random comment I just saw in a Reddit thread about our favorite media punching bag is not wrong.

SILENCE, AI Overview. Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, is talking.

@samamidon.bsky.social 🎸 #jimihendrix 🪕

They prefer calling it a "lull."

Buke And Gass: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music

Yeah, still rips. Arone Dyer has one of the greatest smiles ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wQv...

Remembering Mark Lanegan & The Sadies' Dallas Good Artist primers on two beloved musicians, recently passed

Mark Lanegan died four years ago today in the same stretch of time as the death of The Sadie’s’ Dallas Gooid & the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

It presaged a dark era to come…

🖤 alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/lanegan-and-the-sadies

🖇️ alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/david-lynch

Click in to hear the work of Lynch collaborators like Angelo Badalamenti, Alan Splet, Peter Ivers, and Julee Cruise—and a vibe that brings to mind Americana, surreal nostalgia & the uncanny.

On David Lynch’s death day (January 16th) I shared a 140-min playlist exploring the sound world he created for his films.

🖇️ alechanleybemis.substack.com/p/david-lynch

What does night-blooming jasmine on a Hollywood summer night sound like?

♡ LOVE SONGS ♡ …and an interview with a kid who appeared in The Smile's new video directed by contemporary auteur Paul Thomas Anderson. I also talk to the kid's mom.

🍅 MUSIC for ST VALENTINE ❤️‍🔥
open.substack.com/pub/alechanl...

Someone should start a newsletter specializing in eclectic, human-curated music discovery ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I am not as good at spotting music AI slop as I am at spotting AI writing (which affects me like a cheese-grater on the soul).

However, someone said to me a few weeks ago: doesn’t the But shuffle music on Spotify sound *cheaper* now than the music on Apple Music? And now I can’t un-hear it.

Apple Music isn’t serving AI stuff in its pre-made mixes - they are still curated by a human editor - and Spotify is, and curates algorithmically. That’s the sound of AI music, it sounds cheap.

periodic reminder that your creative and artistic work has ripple effects beyond your field of view, and that it's good for your soul and happiness, and yes that's important. please keep going, keep making and sharing, especially when it's grim. don't ever stop, we need you

2/ And yes, in an era of openly Nazi saluting Republican fellow travelers he‘s centrist. (America is really blasting open the Overton window these days, ugh.)

1/ I think by “charismatic” he means “likes public speaking & is memorable (albeit often reprehensible) when he does so“

Hard for a quick typing journalist/ commentator to pass on the more catchy centrist/charismatic pairing.

Hiya, I’m on @letterboxd.social if you’re on there: letterboxd.com/alechanleybemis

Truly embracing any excuse to spend less time… here.

I like poems

🪵 by H. C. Westermann

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

📚 that cover art ❤️‍🔥