Brendan Hastings

The trick is whatever happens next. Product design leader. Guitar player in trails -

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

“An Israeli airstrike on Gaza hit the home of a doctor, killing nine of her 10 children while she was on duty at her hospital." https://t.co/8j8VyJ6i2x

[Brendan Hastings @brendannh]

@Andr6wMale Ghost tropic works equally well

[Steve Wall @stevethewall]

1/6 Here's one for fellow musicians & our government. The Stunning recently sold out King John's Castle Limerick for the 2nd year running. Below is my royalty for around a months worth of airplay on @Live95Limerick - a station owned by Rupert Murdoch's (cont'd)...

[The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine]

The Wire is shocked to hear of the sudden death of Steve Albini. Yesterday we were excited to announce the new issue of the magazine with a cover story on his group Shellac. Now it has become a memorial to Steve. We send our condolences to his family, friends and colleagues. RIP.

[Damon K 🎤 @dada_drummer]

For how many years have we all been told to make up what we can no longer earn from recordings by playing live… read this article https://t.co/fvhMpYLeUK

[𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕣𝕙𝕠𝕠𝕗 @deerhoof]

The only reason Deerhoof can afford to continue is bare-bones touring, one crew, tiny equipment, self-produced records, and we didn't have kids. Even so, our income hovers near the poverty line every year. I don't understand how newer artists do it.

https://t.co/QzhskeX1Ku

[Brendan Hastings @brendannh]

@Mark__Lawrence

[Brendan Hastings @brendannh]

Hero

[Stereogum @stereogum]

10 years ago today 👊

→ https://t.co/PTmFkMfuxM

[Brendan Hastings @brendannh]

Stop giving your money to Spotify

[Damon K 🎤 @dada_drummer]

This latest outrage by Spotify is not new thinking - their existing system already pushes much of our royalties into the hands of those at the top of the pyramid instead. The new policy of not paying *anything* for tracks with fewer than 1,000 streams just makes it more obvious

[𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕣𝕙𝕠𝕠𝕗 @deerhoof]

Bandcamp: extremely profitable company, uniquely beloved of musicians and music fans alike, riding a wave of public goodwill, decides to sell themselves to a billionaire who then dumps them off to another billionaire who now fires half the company

[David James 🍩 @funkentechno]

Every year is a great year for music. If you didn't hear anything amazing, you weren't trying

[Brendan Hastings @brendannh]

@cloudsteph Wim Hof breathing might be a good quick method to help, possibly. But also worth looking up oxygen advantage and/or buyteko breathing.

[Brendan Hastings @brendannh]

I keep wanting to click the giant X at the top left of the screen to close this app - but it keeps loading the home page 🙃

[Brendan Hastings @brendannh]

@SimonBrundish @LFCTV

[Ireland's Environmentalists @IrelandsEnviro]

Hi everyone, today I'll be talking about something very close to my own heart, as revealed in my twitter handle: @IrishRainforest.

It's something many - or most - people are still totally unaware of: that the natural ecosystem of much of Ireland is actually rainforest.

[Brendan Hastings @brendannh]

@piercegleeson That sounds horribly stressful. Hope they sort it out quickly for you.

I was just typing in an IBAN number for a rather large bill into my online bank account today, using it just feels like sending money into the void. No way to be sure of anything. Banks are terrible.

[regular steve albini @electricalWSOP]

Every time somebody shares a link to substack it reads like unedited remarks from a college libertarian club dinner speech. Reminds me of Nick Cave's “I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the fuck is this garbage?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers."

[Brendan Hastings @brendannh]

I for one support a Leo Varadkar clone army.