brian stankus

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18+

Doors @ 9:30 PM, $5 cover with Thomas Knight, The Old Rochelle

Rough Spot is out today!

this one was like pulling a splinter, but i'm so so happy to share it now -- please listen! you can buy it if you want, but the best thing you could do is tell people about it.

hey all!

as promised, i’m putting out a record this year! my new EP, “Rough Spot” will be out next month. for now, you can hear the single “Parking Lot” here.

this past year, i’ve been obsessed with feeling better. i’ve tried a lot of different, sometimes insane, ways to try to quiet my mind, and honestly i think some of it worked. but i’ve come to the realization lately that that’s an awful, selfish way to live. i focused all my efforts on me -- i neglected friends and family, and i don’t think it was worth it.

so, new tactic. i want to extend out again, i want to care and love and feel and deal with that by expressing it. i want to be a better person.

as a first step, here’s a collection of old stuff. these are demos from past years that have been sticking around in my head, that have some aspect that i really like. they’re of varying quality/completeness/coherentness, but i think there’s some good stuff in here. i put them up to clear them out, so that i can make new songs with no old ideas to lean on.

the “lyrics” for each song (click to the right of each track title) are a little bit about my memories surrounding that particular track.