Email Author Brad Cohan

2012 Stories by Brad Cohan

• Q&A: Greg Fox On How A Rasta Alien In A Yellow Adidas Tracksuit Handed Him The New Guardian Alien Record While He Was Meditating In A Van On Tour

  published Aug 03, 2012

  Greg Fox, drummer extraordinaire for the sonic-spiritualist psychers Guardian Alien, is chowing down on grub at Cong Ly on Hester Street, and with the exception of a small dose of displeasure regardin... More >>

• Q&A: A Place To Bury Strangers' Dion Lunadon On Not Being The Loudest Band In New York, But "The Loudest Band In The World"

  published Jul 27, 2012

  In the span of just a few years, A Place to Bury Strangers has experienced a whirlwind of heat, flash and action. APTBS has been dubbed "the loudest band in New York"; they went from being reigning Pi... More >>

• Q&A: Dean Wareham On The Last Galaxie 500 Set In New York, Leaving the East Village For Brooklyn, His Forthcoming Solo Album, And John Lydon Walking Out On A Luna Show

  published Jul 20, 2012

  Thurston Moore himself called Galaxie 500's pioneering debut record, Today, "the guitar record of 1988." Considering 1988 marked the release of Sonic Youth's landmark Daydream Nation and Dinosaur Jr's... More >>

• Q&A: Keith Morris Of OFF! On Greg Ginn, The Black Flag Days And SST Records

  published Jul 18, 2012

  Keith Morris, a few years shy of 60, remains typically snotty as hell, with trademark grimy dreads hanging from a head splotched with bald spots. But he also happens to be one happy camper. The iconoc... More >>

• Q&A: Janel And Anthony On D.C.'s Experimental Music Scene And Their New Record, Where is Home

  published Jul 17, 2012

  Down in the nation's capital, a vibrant and thriving experimental music scene is currently emerging thanks in large part to the Maryland-based, genre-encompassing label Cuneiform Records. That label r... More >>

• Q&A: Matthew Shipp On His Early New York Days, Getting Shit For Playing Electronics, And Black Music Disaster

  published Jul 06, 2012

  When AUM Fidelity head Steven Joerg told the Voice that "Giants walk among us and you got to fucking pay attention," it was absolute that avant-garde jazz pianist Matthew Shipp was in his canon. Along... More >>

• Q&A: Violent Bullshit On The Story Behind Their Name, OFF! Not Being Hardcore, And Their Parents Coming To Their Shows

  published Jul 05, 2012

  Violent Bullshit is, indeed, the shit. The band's five members—vocalist Jayson Green, dueling guitarists Byron Kalet and Andrew Reuland, bassist Matt Cash and drummer Dan Crowell—profusely... More >>

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  Q&A: Big Day Coming Author Jesse Jarnow Gets Personal With Yo La Tengo

  published Jul 03, 2012

  WFMU DJ, music journalist and frequent Voice contributor Jesse Jarnow has just released Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock (Gotham), a voluminous tome that dissects Hoboken's fines... More >>

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  Q&A: Codeine On Playing Slow, Being On Sub Pop In The '90s And Almost Recording With Jack Endino

  published Jun 29, 2012

  Even before Sub Pop struck gazillions gold when punk rock broke in 1991 with Nevermind, the Seattle label was abiding by and stamping its merch with its tongue-in-cheek, yet notorious (and now complet... More >>

• Q&A: Northern Spy Records' Tom Abbs and Adam Downey On Guitarist Tom Carter, Working At ESP-Disk' And Running Their Own Label

  published Jun 27, 2012

  This week, the Voice sat down with Northern Spy head-honchos Tom Abbs and Adam Downey to talk about the second installment of the label's Spy Music Festival, which will engulf this city's landscape fr... More >>

• Northern Spy Throws Itself A Citywide Party

  published June 27, 2012

  Sporting a crisp, tucked-in oxford and a neat coif, the fortysomething Tom Abbs is heaping praise on the disheveled, splotchy beardo Adam... More >>

• Q&A: Liars' Angus Andrew On Basketball, Experimenting With Electronics, And How Visiting New York Is Disorienting

  published Jun 20, 2012

  The globe-hopping music deconstructionist wonders in Liars revolutionized and jumpstarted the stagnant Brooklyn scene in the early 2000s with a bass-thumping, clatter-soaked dance-punk behemoth (They ... More >>

• Q&A: Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite On How Happy Hardcore Sucks, Not Caring That Instrumental Rock Is Out Of Style, And Covering The Jewish Prayer "My Father, My King"

  published Jun 14, 2012

  For the last fifteen years, the sonic-terrorizing Scottish smashheads Mogwai have remained true to their original vision: the cathartic squelching of a loud/soft gargantuan-riff dynamic undeterred by ... More >>

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  The Oral History Of AUM Fidelity: Steven Joerg's DIY Avant-Garde Label Celebrates Its 15th Anniversary

  published Jun 08, 2012

  In an interview with the Voice last year, AUM Fidelity head Steven Joerg made his mantra crystal clear: "Giants walk among us now, and you've got to fucking pay attention." For the last fifteen years,... More >>

• Q&A: Ches Smith Of Congs For Brums And These Arches On Playing With Marc Ribot And Drumming In All-Night Vodou Ceremonies

  published Jun 06, 2012

  Brooklyn-via-Cali drums heavyweight Ches Smith is a master of percussion, an omnipresent figurehead about town who holds the beats down for the likes of avant-jazz heroes like Marc Ribot, Darius Jones... More >>

• Q&A: The Psychic Paramount's Jeff Conaway On Smoke Machines And Bright Lights, Not Digging Daytime Gigs And Being Really Loud

  published May 18, 2012

  "It's kind of a blast that comes out of nowhere," is how Jeff Conaway, drums- pulverizing overlord for New York City's brutally loud instro-mental skuzz beasts the Psychic Paramount describes the chao... More >>

• Turing Machine's Labor of Love

  published May 16, 2012

  "The whole instrumental thing for me is that I know what we do is different because we are obsessed with groove and a dance-music feel.... More >>

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  The Oral History Of Kid Millions' Man Forever: "A Cross Between Metal Machine Music And 'Dare to Be Stupid'"

  published May 14, 2012

  Kid Millions is juggling a shitload of action. The drummer extraordinaire just played another epic gig this past weekend with Oneida, the psych-rock jamming savants he's anchored since 1997. Man Forev... More >>

• Q&A: Extra Life's Charlie Looker On Dream Seeds, Being A Music Schoolteacher And Thinking Antony Is Awesome

  published May 04, 2012

  Charlie Looker—schoolteacher, classical music composer, guitar improviser, ex-ZS member, Antony and Morrissey enthusiast and visionary behind Brooklyn's niche-less trio Extra Life—is celeb... More >>

• Q&A: Ben Greenberg Of Hubble, The Men And ZS On "Cyber-Dread" And "Shred-Fi," Playing Guitar On His Bed-Stuy Rooftop, And Not Being A Boner

  published May 03, 2012

  Ben Greenberg's riffs are so virtuosic, they prompt the young ax-dude to toss a Steve Vai quip as he transmits dizzying sonic waves from his Bed-Stuy roof . Jokes notwithstanding, the tat-covered, mo... More >>

• Q&A: Sam Hilmer Of Diamond Terrifier And Zs On Booking PRACTICE! Gigs At Zebulon, "Zs" As A Genre, And Not Being Jazz

  published May 03, 2012

  Sam Hilmer is one of the purveyors of daring, free-minded, sound-manipulating experimentalist local outfit Zs, and it's fitting that the seriously bearded saxophonist would refute the generic "post-mi... More >>

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  Q&A: Mike Watt On Snapping Pics In San Pedro For on and off bass, The fIREHOSE Reunion, And Playing Stooges Covers

  published May 02, 2012

  For the past three decades, the flannel-flyin' and econo-jamming godhead Mike Watt has staunchly adhered to his and late, great best friend and fellow Minuteman D Boon's credo "punk is whatever we mad... More >>

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  Q&A: Melvins' Buzz Osborne On Freak Puke, Digging Fox News' Greg Gutfeld And Not Trusting People Who Don't Like The Beatles

  published Apr 27, 2012

  Iconic avant-metal-punk royalty Melvins are fast approaching their third decade of meting out its uber-prolific anthemic maelstrom of sonic heaviosity with uncompromising, valiant experimentalism, and... More >>

• Many Arms

  published April 11, 2012

  Killadelphia's guitar-weilding, audience-massacring hero Nick Millevoi leads Many Arms, a fiercely frenetic and precise avant-jazz instru-metal... More >>

• Q&A: Darius Jones On The Man-ish Boy Epic, Being Called "Punk-Jazz," And AUM Fidelity's 15th Anniversary

  published Apr 12, 2012

  If ever there was a dude who exudes the air of spiritual illumination while being a total badass, saxophonist figurehead Darius Jones is it. In conversation, the burly alto overlord fuses his devout S... More >>