I'm pitching a tent. "A Message From Your Long Beach Circus Recruitment Office" has been referenced in a column in the Long Beach Press-Telegram along side nine other songs by artists such as Thompson Twins and Snoop Dog as a possible candidate for Long Beach's (un)official anthem. Check out the column
here, and scroll to the bottom.

I’ll be periodically posting solo piano stuff, instrumentals, improvisations, etc., to a new page, located here. The first songs were recorded for entry in the Montreux Jazz Solo Competition... something I recognize I have no business entering. Check it out if it sounds interesting.

You can check out the trailer for "Chrysalis", the new Ray Bradbury movie I recently finished at the "Chrysalis" website. Also, you can hear myself and co-star Glenn Vaughn talk about it on the Slice of SciFi Podcast here.

Hello, all.

Just in time for Festivus, I'm putting up my song "We Only See Each Other For Christmas (Just To Remind Ourselves Why)" for FREE download. Enjoy, and feel free to spread the joy around. It's available here and on my website (www.coreylandis.com).

Holiday Gatherings Quarterly Magazine calls it: "...the most poignant song in the true spirit of the holiday since Elmo met Patsy, resulting in a little number about an elderly woman being trampled by a deer."

Jews for Jesus heralds: "This song is the real reason for the season!"

Wilford Brimley growls: "I have die-a-beet-us."

"Powerful lyrics combined with simple, beautiful accompaniment. This CD is a surprising treat...a songwriter's triumph."

Or so says Catherine L. Tully of Indie-Music.com. And I, for one, believe her.

Check out the full review here.

Playing some songs from the new record. Hope to see you there.

In a match that seems to obvious and easily achieved to properly get excited about, Upright Citizens Brigade theater in L.A. is using the demo for "See You Next Tuesday" as the opening theme for their show of the same name. Go check out their great shows (some of which are FREE).

The song will be re-recorded for inclusion in the next record, due around the same time Christ the Lord returns. For now, check it out on my website.

A new, novel-length review/write up has been written about the new record by Rick Alan Rice of rarwriter.com. An excerpt:

"The album shows that he has a sort of off-hand capacity for high quality musical contributions. He probably hasn't fully realized himself with this, his third CD, but Corey is deep in ability and observational intelligence and here he provides more than ample evidence of both. One senses that he is going to be around for a long while yet."

Read the full review in pdf form.

I'm a "featured artist" for March at IndieMusic.com. Go check it out!

Everyone:

A record that I've been listening to for, oh, at least 9 months now, is finally available to the public..."Lessons From the Wilderness" by Austin singer/songwriter Matthew Quinet. It is simply one of the finest debut records I've ever heard, and one of my favorite new records in a long while. It's a simple, lo-fi, acoustic album recorded on a 4-track (much in the way of one of its antecedents, Springsteen's "Nebraska") in a hayloft apartment above a horse barn. And you can almost smell the straw and feel the peeling paint.

Fans of lyrical folk/americana like Townes Van Zandt, (old) Leonard Cohen, Dylan, Cash, Waits, etc., should form a line at the below link and proceed to enrich their music libraries with this strange gift. He's my friend, yes. So blame me if I'm wrong; but this ain't just lip-service.

Go listen at CDBaby!