📸: Joe Major. There is a song open on my DAW right now that doesn't want to reveal itself. I listen to what I have, and feel in love with lush, ever-gazing wash of the verses. And the drop that comes after. The whatever-you-want-to-call-the-part-with-no-vocals-where-the-music-freaks-out-on-its-own-a-bit. A beefy robotic jam like a night at a replicant discotheque. Rain and lights, the steamy smell of udon from under soaking tarps. But I think I've become afraid of it. It's already two months...

Brazil and DL;BR are thrilled to announce the upcoming release of "Live at HI-FI," the band's official board bootleg, recorded at the band's 2019 reunion concert in Indianapolis. Raw and virtually unedited, this live album comes on the heels of the DL;BR vinyl reissue of the band's lost sophomore record "The Philosophy of Velocity," produced by Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Mogwai) and re-released in November of 2025. From the band: In this current hellscape of algo-slop and uncanny valley...

An evaluation of life in 2024. I am stoked to announce the first official DL;BR book release (well, technically the 2nd, if you count "The Novemberist Almanac" chapbook). ALL OF THIS WILL BE FORGOTTEN is the first volume of selected essays from this blog, published in a handsome 6x9 booklet, available in 100 typewriter-editioned copies, as well as an audiobook and ebook. When I launched DL;BR in 2024, I committed to writing a weekly blog as a way to evaluate the days, to shake the tree and...