Alec Bemis
Alec Hanley Bemis is a manager and creative producer. In 2001, he co-founded the Brassland label with Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National, and he has also worked as an independent manager with artists/organizations such as Alexi Murdoch, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation's Summer Nostos Festival, Cantaloupe Music, Dirty Projectors, the National Concert Hall of Ireland, and !!!. His projects have been covered by The Irish Times, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Pitchfork, Print Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.
In his first career as a writer & journalist, he was published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Bookforum and LA Weekly on topics ranging from Beck to backyard wrestling. In autumn 2020, an article he wrote for The Creative Independent '19 things Iād tell people contemplating starting a record label' was widely disseminated among music and art communities on the Internet.