Email Author Brad Cohan

2012 Stories by Brad Cohan

• Grass Roots

  published December 5, 2012

  For 16 years, Brooklyn's AUM Fidelity label has unleashed glorious throngs of otherworldly music, presenting New York's avant-garde jazz royalty... More >>

• Saxman Jon Irabagon Goes Metal On Your Ass, Avant Style

  published Dec 06, 2012

  New York City saxophone pioneer Jon Irabagon -- award-winning composer, group leader and sideman -- is lounging around on the grimy, sticky couches at West Village jazz 'n' rec hangout Fat Cat, about ... More >>

• Introducing Former Parts & Labor Dude Dan Friel's Electroni-commuter Rock

  published December 5, 2012

  Only this past February did Parts & Labor, Brooklyn's DIY art-pop deconstructionist titans, celebrate their 10th anniversary by putting the... More >>

• The Gate

  published November 14, 2012

  When Melvins Lite recently rolled into town, it would have been apropos for King Buzzo and Dale Crover to have tabbed local cataclysmic,... More >>

• Retro/Virus

  published November 7, 2012

  Lydia Lunch revolutionized the downtown scene in the 1980's, fronting ultra-confrontational art-noise-rock purveyors Teenage Jesus and the Jerks... More >>

• Barr Shea Dahl

  published November 7, 2012

  After touring Europe with Talibam! and Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Kevin Shea, the Voice's choice for Best Drummer of 2012, returns... More >>

• Iron Dog+The Home of Easy Credit

  published November 7, 2012

  A stellar trifecta of Brooklyn avant-gardists converge to form Iron Dog:Stuart Popejoy (bass wielder of local doom grinders, Bassoon), Sarah... More >>

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  The Oral History of Rat At Rat R: The NYC-via-Philly Noise-Rock Heroes Celebrate the Re-issue of Their 1985 Debut, Amer$ide

  published Nov 09, 2012

  "In my way of thinking, first there is Sonic Youth then comes Rat At Rat R then after that comes Swans -- that order was kind of their appearance in the New York scene. But Rat At Rat R just stumble... More >>

• Talibam! Is Proud to Be the Sixth Grade, Amateur Version of LMFAO

  published Sep 24, 2012

  For a feature story this week we sat down with "no school" rap duo Talibam! to talk about their groovy, ass-spanking debut, Puff Up the Volume. The snazzy production team of MC K-Wizzle and MC Moaty M... More >>

• Fear of a Talibam! Planet

  published September 19, 2012

  Kevin Shea, the freewheeling drummer for Brooklyn's ridiculously intrepid avant-everything duo Talibam!, is waxing about adding "rapping... More >>

• Q&A: Bettina Richards of Thrill Jockey Records On The 20th Anniversary Of Her Label

  published Sep 14, 2012

  The iconic and staunchly independent label Thrill Jockey Records may be Chicago-based since the mid '90s, but its roots lie here in New York and along the grimy Path train tunnel where Hoboken stands.... More >>

• Q&A: XADDAX On Married Couple Band Life And Bushwick's Zombie People

  published Sep 13, 2012

  Gloriously wretched, hoarse-throated bloody rasp bawls and fractured clusterfucked guitar squalor careen head on with drums and synth-triggering pedal demolition in XADDAX, a Bushwickian noise-rock mo... More >>

• Q&A: David Pajo On Metal, The Slint Reunion, Band Name Changes, And Not Regretting Being In Zwan

  published Sep 09, 2012

  David Pajo is one hell of a jack-of-all-trades guitarist. In the early '90s, Pajo revolutionized minimalist post-punk sonics with the crucial Kentucky outfit Slint, helped birth the post-rock aestheti... More >>

• Q&A: Tim Berne On Big Satan, Playing with Nels Cline, How The Internet Fucked Up The Music Business, And Not Being Part of The "Downtown Jazz Scene"

  published Sep 07, 2012

  Saxophone giant Tim Berne is one forward-thinking renegade who started altering the landscape of jazz in the mid-1970s by wielding his horn and, in a show of then-unheard of DIY vision, launched his o... More >>

• Q&A: Alex Edkins Of METZ On Signing With Sub Pop, Sharing A Practice Space With Fucked Up, And Bowling With Mudhoney's Mark Arm

  published Aug 31, 2012

  Sub Pop's raucous misfit cred has been kept afloat by the white-trash, noise-oozing pranksters in Pissed Jeans, the garage surf-rockers Obits, and the grungester royalty Mudhoney. But new young blood ... More >>

• Q&A: Greg Anderson Of Southern Lord On This Weekend's The Power of the Riff And The Future of Sunn O)))

  published Aug 31, 2012

  The Power of the Riff, the righteous metal and hardcore-encompassing spectacular that has bludgeoned heads the last couple of years exclusively on the west coast, makes its triumphant debut in Brookly... More >>

• Q&A: The Vaselines' Eugene Kelly On Nirvana Covering Their Songs, Loving Mudhoney, Eugenius And New Tunes

  published Aug 30, 2012

  The Vaselines—the rascally horny, popcentric duo of Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee—are, as their classic song from their 1989 debut LP Dum Dum portended, ageless "Teenage Superstars." The... More >>

• Q&A: Bill Orcutt On The Harry Pussy Reissues, Playing "The Star-Spangled Banner" And His Kids Not Caring He Was In A Band Called Harry Pussy

  published Aug 29, 2012

  Bill Orcutt is an American noise music and experimental icon. For a too-brief but essential period in the '90s, Orcutt, with drummer and then-partner Adris Hoyos, terrorized audiences in the Miami-bas... More >>

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  Q&A: Don Mclean of Fortissimo Records And Action Beat On This Weekend's Yo Eskerrik Asko, NYC! Festival And Meeting Glenn Branca

  published Aug 24, 2012

  The rite of the music festival usually involves conglomerate domination and sponsorship whoring—but this weekend's genre-encompassing Yo Eskerrik Asko, NYC! is a refreshing break from that norm.... More >>

• Q&A: Will Schwartz Of Imperial Teen On Being Into Unrest, Sharing A Band With A Dude From Faith No More And How Living In Brooklyn Ruined His Songwriting

  published Aug 17, 2012

  Since the mid-Nineties, Imperial Teen has crafted an infectious, hard-to-shake boy-meets-girl candy-pop jangle. Formed by Faith No More keys-master Roddy Bottum and NYU grad/pop maven Will Schwartz wi... More >>

• Q&A: Black Bananas' Jennifer Herrema On Rad Times Express, Neil Hagerty, Royal Trux, And The Curse Of Opening For The Stones

  published Aug 17, 2012

  Jennifer Herrema has helped define the underground rock scene since the 1980s, thanks to her constant pushing forward of both music and style. In her youth, Herrema cavorted with the straight-edge har... More >>

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  ugEXPLODE Musicians Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone, Ava Mendoza, Sandy Ewen And Damon Smith On Shredding, New York Vs. The Bay Area, And Houston's Improv and Drinking Scene

  published Aug 16, 2012

  This week, the Voice rounded up Weasel Walter's nationwide community of avant-gardist outsiders who both record for his boldly avant-garde label ugEXPLODE and collaborate with the iconoclast-about-tow... More >>

• Q&A: Admiral Grey And Ceci Moss Of Cellular Chaos On Getting Into People's Faces, Rolling Around On The Floor And Playing With Drummer Marc Edwards

  published Aug 15, 2012

  This week, the Voice sat down with some of the many iconoclastic musicians from across the country that extreme musician Weasel Walter has corralled across the nation under his visionary label ... More >>

• Weasel (Walter) Nation

  published August 15, 2012

  In 1991, improvising percussionist-about-town Weasel Walter launched ugEXPLODE. Then based in Chicago, the label documented his projects like... More >>

• 'You Are Here Festival'

  published July 4, 2012

  As the curator for Willamsburg experimental hub Zebulon, Sam Hilmer (he of local avant shape-shifters ZS and Diamond Terrifier) has booked a slew... More >>