{{Short description|American journalist and writer}} {{notability|1=Biographies|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Alec Hanley Bemis | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Writer, journalist, record producer | years_active = | known_for = Brassland co-founder | notable_works = }}
'''Alec Hanley Bemis''' is an American writer, journalist and record producer.
==History== In 2001, Bemis co-founded Brassland, an independent record label with Aaron Dessner and Bryce Dessner.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brassland.org|title=Brassland|publisher=Brassland.org|accessdate=2010-06-13|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100628054309/http://www.brassland.org/|archivedate=28 June 2010|url-status= live}}</ref> ''The Guardian'' newspaper said Brassland was "the record label at the centre of New York's other music scene" and "a focus for some of the city's most intriguing and creative musicians."<ref name=TG>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/16/brassland-record-label-new-york-the-national|title=Brassland: the record label at the centre of New York's other music scene|newspaper=The Guardian|accessdate=2011-09-04|location=London, England|first=Laura|last=Snapes|date=2011-06-16}}</ref> Bemis has called every recording artist on the Brassland label a "lifer".<ref name=TG/>
Bemis has served on the board of directors for both WYBC and Manhattan New Music Project,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mnmp.org/aboutus/staff-board/|publisher=Manhattan New Music Project|title=Staff & Board|accessdate=2010-06-13|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100716200908/http://www.mnmp.org/aboutus/staff-board/|archivedate=2010-07-16|url-status=dead}}</ref> a nonprofit organization that sends musicians to teach in New York City schools. Bemis has emphasized the importance of collaboration in creating music and culture, stating that Brassland was created to "foster the growth of the bands and the community around them."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.w-h-y.org/interviews/2003/03_10_29_brassland/itw_brassland.htm|title=Brassland|publisher=w-h-y.org|date=2003-10-29|language=French|accessdate=2010-06-13|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050324091924/http://www.w-h-y.org/interviews/2003/03_10_29_brassland/itw_brassland.htm|archivedate=2005-03-24|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Prior to co-founding Brassland, Bemis had a career as a writer and journalist working for such publications as ''LA Weekly'',<ref>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724165407/https://www.laweekly.com/guest-author/alec-hanley-bemis/|archivedate=July 24, 2020|newspaper=LA Weekly|title=Alec Hanley Bemis|url=https://www.laweekly.com/guest-author/alec-hanley-bemis/}}</ref> ''The New York Times'',<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/arts/music/william-shatners-new-enterprise.html|title=William Shatner's New Enterprise|author=Hanley Bemis, Alec|date=October 10, 2004|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20171216201336/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/arts/music/william-shatners-new-enterprise.html|archivedate=December 16, 2017|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> ''The New Yorker''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/10/14/junk-yard-angel|title=Junk-Yard Angel|author=Hanley Bemis, Alec|date=October 6, 2002|magazine=The New Yorker|accessdate=2010-06-13}}</ref> and the ''Los Angeles Times''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Music of love from an awkward soul|author=Hanley Bemis, Alec|date=July 6, 2003|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jul-06-ca-bemis6-story.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-16-wk-dublab16-story.html|title=The undertones of the city|author=Asch, Andrew|date=June 16, 2005}}</ref>
From 2012 to 2016, Bemis hosted a radio show webcast by Alanna Heiss's Clocktower Productions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://clocktower.org/series/teenage-kicks|title=Teenage Kicks|website=clocktower.org|accessdate=2015-09-03}}</ref>
==Discography (as Executive Producer)== {{BLP unreferenced section|date=June 2025}}
=== Brassland albums === * Baby Dayliner - ''High Heart & Low Estate'' * Baby Dayliner - ''Critics Pass Away'' * Buke & Gass - ''Riposte'' * Clogs - ''Thom's Night Out'' * Clogs - ''Lullaby for Sue'' * Clogs - ''Stick Music'' * Clogs - ''Lantern'' * Clogs - ''Veil Waltz EP'' * Clogs - ''The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton'' * Clogs - ''Last Song EP'' * Devastations - ''Devastations'' * Devastations - ''Coal'' * Doveman - ''With My Left Hand I Raise the Dead'' * Doveman - ''Footloose'' * Doveman - ''The Conformist'' * Erik Friedlander - ''Maldoror'' * The National - ''The National'' * The National - ''Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers'' * The National - ''Cherry Tree'' * Pela - ''All In Time EP''
=== Cantaloupe Music albums === * Alarm Will Sound - ''Michael Gordon: Van Gogh'' * Bang on a Can All-Stars - ''Brian Eno: Music for Airports (Live)'' * Burkina Electric - ''Paspanga'' * Arnold Dreyblatt - ''Resonant Relations'' * Florent Ghys - ''Baroque Tardif: Soli'' * Michael Gordon - ''[purgatorio] POPOPERA'' * Michael Harrison - ''Revelation: Music in Pure Intonation'' * Phil Kline - ''John the Revelator'' * David Lang - ''Music From the Film (Untitled)'' * Lisa Moore - ''Seven: Music by Don Byron'' * Tristan Perich - ''1-Bit Music'' * Sentieri selvaggi - ''Plays Gavin Bryars & Philip Glass'' * Julia Wolfe - ''Dark Full Ride: Music in Multiples''
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{official website|http://www.alechanleybemis.com}} *{{official website|http://www.brassland.org Brassland official website}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20140110174010/http://inframe.tv/people/alec-hanley-bemis.html Video interviews at InFrame.TV] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20111001093548/http://www.artistshousemusic.org/videos/alec+bemis Video interviews at Artists House Music]
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