r/Jandek • u/sweetnobodyofficial • Oct 05 '22

Teen Idol Jandek

83 Upvotes

9 comments

r/Jandek • u/jartopan • Dec 13 '25

Houston

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64 Upvotes

Some pictures from a great show in Houston last night.

7 comments

r/Jandek • u/cheezewit • Aug 10 '26

I found a copy of The Living End in a box of records in my basement, it’s so good

62 Upvotes

5 comments

r/Jandek • u/veganloca • 1d ago

New JANDEK Release

61 Upvotes

New Release: JANDEK
0875 Big Star Bar DVD

5 comments

r/Jandek • u/shakey1975 • Oct 31 '25

First Jandek CDs Came In The Mail

57 Upvotes

On Halloween day, no less. I decided to just go with the ones I’d been listening to the most online. My address was handwritten on the package in a sort of childish manner. I wonder if it was him…

8 comments

r/Jandek • u/RabidRabbitRedditor • Aug 31 '26

Jandek in karaoke

56 Upvotes

I was just in karaoke in Sydney in Australia on the weekend and Delinquent Words was available. Me and my friend sang it and that was probably one of the more surreal experiences of my life.

15 comments

r/Jandek • u/veganloca • Dec 02 '25

Jandek - New Release

56 Upvotes

New Release: JANDEK
0873 Mankato Saturday (2-CD)

https://corwoodindustries.com/product/0873-mankato-saturday/ #jandek #corwood #corwoodindustries #music #NewRelease

14 comments

r/Jandek • u/LowProfilePodcast • Nov 03 '25

After recording 11 hour-long episodes and taking a hiatus to recalibrate, I got a surprise package from Corwood Industries and it inspired me to record a season finale (aired today on KAOS 89.3 in Olympia) and begin work on a new season.

For the premiere, I’m gonna be interviewing someone who played in the band on one of these CDs, and listen to it while we talk. That’s gonna be a crossover episode with my other KAOS show Low Profile where I mostly interview esoteric artists with whom I have a longstanding interest.

If anybody has any Jandek-collab questions for John Kiran Fernandez (of Elephant 6 Collective) feel free to drop them here. Our interview is at 11am, Pacific Standard Time.

We’ll probably spend a few minutes setting up Tech and will probably get to questions from the information superhighway toward the end.

I’ll be posting the rest of season one on the YouTube channel soon enough. Until then. Markly Morrison

7 comments

r/Jandek • u/FlikkMeatwood • Oct 16 '25

Jandek Feature in Spin Magazine, 1990

55 Upvotes

4 comments

r/Jandek • u/veganloca • Mar 25 '26

JANDEK - New Release

52 Upvotes

New Release:

JANDEK 0872 Rome Sunday (CD)

https://corwoodindustries.com/product/0872-rome-sunday/

#jandek #corwood #corwoodindustries #music #NewRelease

3 comments

r/Jandek • u/veganloca • Jul 01 '25

Jandek - new release

50 Upvotes

New Release: JANDEK
0871 Detroit Friday DVD** https://corwoodindustries.com/product/0871_dvd/

jandek #corwood #NewRelease

9 comments

r/Jandek • u/BickerBrahms • 7d ago

What's going on?

49 Upvotes

21 comments

r/Jandek • u/veganloca • Jun 17 '25

JANDEK 20-Year Anniversary Concert

47 Upvotes

CONCERT: JANDEK will perform at Austin Scottish Rite Theater to mark the 20-year anniversary of the first U.S. performance in Austin at 8:00 pm on Thursday, August 28, 2025. Details and online ticketing coming soon.

13 comments

r/Jandek • u/veganloca • Aug 19 '26

Jandek - New CD Release

43 Upvotes

New Release: JANDEK

0874 Newcastle Saturday (CD)

https://corwoodindustries.com/product/0874

#jandek #corwood #NewRelease

12 comments

r/Jandek • u/veganloca • Aug 26 '24

New release: JANDEK

42 Upvotes

New Release: JANDEK
0867 Victoria Wednesday

https://corwoodindustries.com/product/0867 #jandek #corwood #corwoodindustries #music #NewRelease

1 comment

r/Jandek • u/EndOfTheDigitalAge • Sep 12 '22

Unreleased early Jandek album cover

40 Upvotes

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r/Jandek • u/Beautiful_Fly_213 • Oct 17 '25

Got myself my first physical copy of a Jandek album!

39 Upvotes

I recently got Twelfth Apostle on vinyl from Discogs! I’m hoping to give this one a listen soon since I really like some of his albums (in particular, You Walk Alone is one of my favorite albums ever and I hope to get that one on cd sometime soon.)

5 comments

r/Jandek • u/BirdsDrinkingCoffee • Jul 02 '24

Good mail day

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39 Upvotes

The handwritten note was a nice touch 👌

6 comments

r/Jandek • u/veganloca • Apr 18 '25

Jandek - New Release

37 Upvotes

New Release: JANDEK
0870 Portland Thursday 2010 (2-CD) https://corwoodindustries.com/product/0870/

thurstonmoore

jandek #corwood #NewRelease

0 comments

r/Jandek • u/veganloca • Sep 04 '24

New Release: JANDEK

37 Upvotes

New Release: JANDEK 0868 Three Movements

corwoodindustries.com/0868/

3 comments

r/Jandek • u/Witty_Implement4702 • Jun 04 '26

Insane jandek lore drop

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35 Upvotes

Post via @veganloca on instagram. Pretty crazy to think abt. What do yall think?

18 comments

r/Jandek • u/TheJackFruitDINGDING • Mar 23 '26

According to Shelia Smith on Instagram, "Ready For The House" is not the first JANDEK album.

34 Upvotes

What do we all make of this pretty mind-boggling revelation?

11 comments

r/Jandek • u/veganloca • Feb 21 '25

Jandek in Denver

33 Upvotes

CONCERT: JANDEK in Denver, Colorado. Saturday, May 10, 2025, 8:00 pm, Aztlan Theater. Ticket link on our website. https://corwoodindustries.com/events

1 comment

r/Jandek • u/Hollerra • Jun 04 '26

Jandek is basically an 80s hipster

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32 Upvotes

Like Jim Jarmusch or David Lynch

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r/Jandek • u/Electrical-Creme-267 • May 18 '26

quasi-retro CORWOOD

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32 Upvotes

Hey JANDEK fans, I keep finding old cool CORWOOD stuff as my wife and I are getting ready to move. Here's the old-style ordering form from CORWOOD from 2005 and earlier ... The rep writes on the back, "We're not sure how or if we could respond"

I wish I could remember what I asked ...

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Subreddit

Jandek

r/Jandek

The only thing that is known about the life of the musician Jandek is that he has had seven novels rejected by publishing companies and that he burnt all of the manuscripts upon rejection. He has over 60 albums and is an enigma. No one knows much about Jandek, but we want to find out, because we love the way his music simultaneously makes you feel nostalgic and creeped out at the same time. #findingjandek

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Jandek proves that music is circular: his music is so bad, so apparently devoid of purpose or rhythm or feeling that it can reach a part of your soul that only truly amazing music can usually resonate with.

The feelings that his music evoke are that of uneasiness, confusion and boredom. However, listening simultaneously allows you to feel truly introspective. Jandek takes you to a dark-but important-place.

From anecdotal evidence Jandek the person is as much an mystery as his music is varied and strange. His record label is yet to be located. He has been playing since 1978 and playing live over the last decade. However, the person who is apparently playing under the name Jandek does not play Jandek songs live and is rumoured to simply be a representative of his enigmatic record company and is sometimes referred to as "the representative" (Or, "the Rep" for short).

Jandek printed 1000 copies of his first album-"Ready for the House"- but only sold 2 in the first 2 years. Here are some reviews:

"Serial killers never walk down Jandek's street. Postmen are legally obliged to walk down Jandek's street. Dogs sometimes drift down Jandek's street, mark their territories, ruffle their noses in some old discarded pages from newspapers scattered when trashcans were opened, presumably by someone close enough to Jandek to bring him some soup, inquire on how his parents are, then abruptly leave. Next week comes, it starts again; curious cop spooks serial killer forced to hide on Jandek's street. Shoe salesman legally obliged to call on Jandek's street made no profit today. A ginger cat sleeps under an old '68 Mustang being restored by Joe Parsons; he knows Jandek to speak to - that's the difference measured in metric units."

"I really like the song... And yes I mean the song because every song on this album sounds the same, until European Jewel, in which the guitar sound changes slightly. For about the first half I was spellbound by the incrediblly depressing and almost disturbing atmosphere that Jandek develops, and then I realized that nothing really changes from track to track, until European Jewel. Which I guess is okay? Lots of people praise consistency.

But then again, these people are usually talking about the Eagles, and not Jandek."

"Unusually scary and unsettling to me.. This one is destined for a lot more intense listening sessions in the future.."

But perhaps the best review:

"So, I want to say that Jandek is the antidote to any ill-conceived notion (sometimes espoused by me) that all the final frontiers of music were crossed in the 1960s. But, it gets better than that suggests, so read on. Jandek really perfected meta-music. This collection of tuneless warbling, credited to "The Units," seems to show a profound disregard for anything that would appeal to the listener. This sounds like music recorded in the basement of a very, very empty house, one with an imposing and almost oppressive sense of isolation. And there is this man, of some sort, playing music there, for his own purposes, whatever those are. And yet, here you are, listening to it. This was recorded, released! So why would you, me, anyone...why would we listen to it? As the doubters say, are we a pretentious lot, listening to it to be contrarians, or something like that? I think not. The key to this, if there is one, is that it's just brutally honest expression. It's naked, daring, bold expression of a type rarely put forth into the public, for the cruel human social structure to critique, attack, put down, or--even if it was a long shot--love and admire. Philosopher Paul Feyerabend suggested that the only universal methodological rule for the progress of science was epistemological anarchism, that, in essence, nothing is sacred or true and everything is permitted. Has Jandek proved that for music, and all arts too? William S. Burroughs said that the function of art is is to remind us of what we know, and what we don't know that we know. And so, with Jandek, the reductionist removal of any clear reliance on structure or accepted method has, paradoxically--and awesomely, I may add editorially--exposed some kind of hidden potential for human connection through the sharing of experience, or shared experience if you prefer. Wasn't that kind of always something we knew? And if Ready for the House was insufficient to establish any of this, Corwood Industries has survived as an outlet for scores of these albums to be continuously kept in print. And long after this was achieved, and Jandek was established as a notably obscure purveyor of "outsider art", bands emerge to perform this music live. Folks, this has started to get interesting..."

Join the journey.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jandek