12/15/25
Backstroke in the Shallow End
This wasn’t going to be a Coltrane post, but here we are.
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Hey, I'm Brendan. I'm a musician, button presser, and tarot reader based in Queens. (You can hire me for any of those things.) I currently sing/scream/play guitar in Receive and play drums in Star Card.
The personal web site has always been one of my favorite artistic mediums, and even though it's not really where "traffic" likes to go, publishing doesn't feel complete to me without a living archive of my work, shaped the way I want, severed from creepy ad-tech platforms.
So, that's what I've made here. You can read my blog below, look at photos I've taken, or listen to music I've worked on. There's also some ephemera (small thoughts, recent favs, etc.), a bit about me, and a guestbook that you can sign.
Hello Spring
Quick update & our last show for a bit
Hey all, Brendan here! The buds on the trees outside our kitchen have just shown up in the past few days, and yesterday was the first windows-open-all-day day of the year. The city hasn’t so much creaked back to life as it has settled into cautiously buzzing relief from the snow-shit piles on sidewalks everywhere. Meanwhile the city has been repainting the columns holding up the train tracks near our block, and there’s been huge, clamorous machines up and down the street, thundering away and muscling pedestrians off the sidewalk. They too are starting to go the way of the snow-shit piles, leaving a new coat of paint in their wake. Happy spring.
I’ll be getting back to writing here this season, but first, a quick update: We’ll be playing our last show for a little while on April 12th! In a reversal of the typical band’s seasonal rhythm, we’ll be taking the summer months off to write some new tunes and get the next album together. We’ll have a few things to announce in the meantime, but 4/12 will be our last show for a bit!
Naturally, we’ll be at the illustrious Hart Bar, playing with Chaser, Rope Trick, and Cometa Negra – a stacked bill! Please do come out.
more writing
12/1/25
December Goings-On
Two shows, plus, I guess I’m a reviewer now.
11/12/25
I’ve been thinking lately about wonder
On stewarding curiosity, watching Typology of Sirens, and writing weird instrumental music.
11/2/25
November Goings-On
I didn’t realize this month was so busy.
10/23/25
On Living with Music
A Sparklehorse cover, and what years can bend toward.
10/4/25
A New Coat of Paint
A reintroduction, a memory of my mother and Ozzy.
1/1/25
I’ve been making web sites for a long time.
The requisite Hello World post.