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Brendan Landis

@slownames.bsky.social

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Vox in Receive, drums in Star Card, half of Glifter. I also make web sites and read tarot. Used to play noise / ambient / etc. as Hey Exit https://slownames.bandcamp.com/ https://ampwall.com/a/receive https://open.spotify.com/artist/4AgJmiFlddeh05VlXuObLy

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Brendan Landis @slownames.bsky.social · 7d

I feel ya, ya gotta push through

Brendan Landis @slownames.bsky.social · 7d

First post up on the new Substack yay receiveband.substack.com/p/a-new-coat...

A New Coat of Paint

Receive has packed up our mailer and moved to Substack

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Brendan Landis @slownames.bsky.social · 7d

Saw Stereolab for the first time and they were SO good

Brendan Landis @slownames.bsky.social · 7d

I have moved my band's little newsletter over to substack! Maybe you'd like to subscribe? receiveband.substack.com

Receive | Substack

Weird loud band from Queens. Posts by Brendan. Click to read Receive, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Brendan Landis @slownames.bsky.social · 9d

An old fav new age album that came up on random just now. Not a style that I write in or that usually resonates with me, but sometimes you get a reco from a friend and it sticks. williamackerman.bandcamp.com/album/sound-...

Sound of Wind Driven Rain, by William Ackerman

11 track album

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Brendan Landis @slownames.bsky.social · 9d

first hoodie day of the season 👍

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Brendan Landis @slownames.bsky.social · 9d

Walking home from tracking vocals, saw a plane flying under a half moon and it made me wanna go write some more

Brendan Landis @slownames.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hello! My birthday's coming up, and Receive will be playing a show in celebration, at Gold Sounds, on 9/11. (Real bday is on the 12th.) Also on the bill are the homies Bad Trips, Death Drive, and Dirtbag Ivy. It's going to be a real fun night, even moreso with your company. Ok sick!

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liz pelly @lizpelly.bsky.social · Apr 15

i recommend a cassette player in every room

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Ampwall @ampwall.com · Apr 11

Check out the original New Abrasions, available digital and on cassette tape!

#OnAmpwall

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New Abrasions cassette from Receive

c90 cassette (program repeats on side B)

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Ampwall @ampwall.com · Apr 11

New on @ampwall.com

New Abrasions (Dust Version) by Receive, art rock from Queens, NYC

A fascinating alternate rendition of 2024's New Abrasions.

"The result is like a book left out in the weather, rained on and sunbleached a hundred times over."

#OnAmpwall

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New Abrasions (Dust Version) · Receive

New Abrasions (Dust Version) - Receive, a 8 track ep

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Brendan Landis @slownames.bsky.social · Apr 11

🥰🥰🥰

Brendan Landis @slownames.bsky.social · Apr 9

Maybe if I get the SeatGeek I'll have a web site or a plastic box with a bunch of controls on it, and like e.g. if I turn one of the knobs up all the way then it'll buy 127 XBoxes or jars of pickles or packages of adult diapers from amazon?

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Brendan Landis @slownames.bsky.social · Apr 9

But then the first made-up-word-plus-either-plural-noun-or-verb throws the whole thing into fucking chaos. What the fuck is going on. Is there a thing called SeatGeek that has some knobs and dials, which buy a bunch of shit for you or something? Or does SeatGeek exert control over... what? Man...

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Brendan Landis @slownames.bsky.social · Apr 9

Damn this is tough. So... "spend like a rock star" seems common enough, maybe we can use that as a starting point.

So then we can read fwd from there: "spend like a rock star with Brex." And we see the made up word on a credit card, so ok. "Get the credit card and use it a lot you fuckin idiot." ✅

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Brendan Landis @slownames.bsky.social · Apr 8

I recently made my band's first EPK which feels many ways: receive.blue/epk

Receive

art rock band in Ridgewood NY

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Brendan Landis @slownames.bsky.social · Apr 8

Example 2: I will write about having no new favorite albums later because I hafta do some other stuff now. (Spoiler alert, it's my fault, not the music's fault.)

Brendan Landis @slownames.bsky.social · Apr 8

Still, we all want those lightning moments of hearing something and being like "omg THIS! wtf!" But that's a real elusive thing, the same way clicking with someone IRL is rare.

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Brendan Landis @slownames.bsky.social · Apr 8

So of course it's no wonder I didn't find it in on some silly corporate phone app. Hearing something in your headphones is not the same as time spent living with that thing.

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Brendan Landis @slownames.bsky.social · Apr 8

I realized that in the group chat, the itch I was trying to scratch was for that long-term relationship with music, whether personal or more broadly cultural.

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Brendan Landis @slownames.bsky.social · Apr 8

Anyway I was never a crusty kid, but I have a lot of memories attached to Choking Victim. Hearing them with my high school friends as an intro to non-radio punk, learning to play their songs, seeing em on tour. Great memories, and when I say I listen to this band, these memories are what I think of.

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Brendan Landis @slownames.bsky.social · Apr 8

Or a friend telling me recently about being at a show and seeing some HC dudes fight with some death metal dudes because of their diff pit etiquette. I see these as real lifestyle & worldview differences coming to a head, not just a narcissism of minor differences (tho maybe there's that too).

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Brendan Landis @slownames.bsky.social · Apr 8

This dynamic bears out even today. Just a couple months ago I saw a fight break out at a black metal show when these two crusties showed up and were doing the aggro arm-wavey dances (I know these dances have like five different names, whatever).

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Brendan Landis @slownames.bsky.social · Apr 8

We all came to realize that wasn’t true, of course - that memorizing band names didn’t equate to real lived experience in the subcultures to which those bands belonged, that there’s oftentimes a certain tribalism about “listening to” this or that. Especially in the underground.

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Brendan Landis @slownames.bsky.social · Apr 8

Later on I thought back to the Napster days, when the boundaries between mainstream and underground music first started bending & shifting. “Instant access to all the music in the world, now everyone’s an expert,” as the narrative went.

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