Email Author Brad Cohan

2012 Stories by Brad Cohan

• Q&A: Calvin Johnson Of The Hive Dwellers On Running K Records, Beat Happening, And How He's Always Wanted To Play Staten Island

  published Apr 06, 2012

  Calvin Johnson is one forward-looking dude. He brought strict punk rock ethos and DIY aesthetics—supporting community, contributing to 'zines, booking shows—to underground rock, and played... More >>

• published Apr 05, 2012

  As Grant Hart bravely dealt with a godawful fire that nearly gutted his boyhood home in his native South St. Paul last year, the drummer/guitarist and visual artist—formerly of American noise-po... More >>

• The Resurrection of feedtime

  published March 28, 2012

  It takes a mere two words for Aussie avant-garde pub rockers feedtime to explain the crux of why they tacked a lowercase "f" onto their band... More >>

• Q&A: Dysrhythmia's Kevin Hufnagel And Colin Marston On NYC's Metal Revival, Leaving Relapse Records And Being In A Shit-Ton of Bands

  published Mar 21, 2012

  When Herculean experi-metal prog trio Dysrhythmia traded in their Killadelphia digs for New York City's clusterfuck of a music scene in the mid-naughts, metal and its myriad subgenres barely registere... More >>

• Q&A: Chicago Underground Duo's Chad Taylor On Improvising, The New York And Chicago Jazz Scenes, And Leaving Thrill Jockey

  published Mar 15, 2012

  Chicago Underground Duo's defection from their longtime label Thrill Jockey to the fledgling New York-based Northern Spy imprint—after fifteen years and some seven albums of visionary experiment... More >>

• Q&A: Dave Shuford On The Bargain Bin, Writing Urban Country Music, And His New Band Rhyton

  published Mar 09, 2012

  Dave Shuford has been ingrained in the New York City soundscape for decades as part of the experimentalist collective mutants No Neck Blues Band, which ruled both downtown's now-departed avant-garde r... More >>

• Q&A: Wussy's Chuck Cleaver And Lisa Walker On The Cincinnati Scene, Playing Music With Your Ex, And Shaking The "Critic's Band" Tag

  published Mar 02, 2012

  It's high time Chuck Cleaver and Lisa Walker, the core of Cincinnati crust-stained yet dreamy jangle-pop heroes Wussy, get uttered in the same breath as holier-than-thou lady/dude combos like John Doe... More >>

• Q&A: White Out's Tom Surgal And Lin Culbertson On Their New Record, How The Sound In DIY Spaces Sucks, And The Secret To Being A Couple In A Band

  published Feb 24, 2012

  White Out—along with Gotham lifers like Glenn Branca, Sonic Youth and Unsane—head a slate of disparately drawn iconoclasts who, despite downtown's colossal overhaul, still unequivocally bl... More >>

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  Q&A: Parts & Labor On Remembering Whitney Houston, Their Indefinite Hiatus, And Possibly Reuniting At Coachella in 2020

  published Feb 23, 2012

  Brooklyn's econo-electronics-mishmashing, art-rocking noisemakers Parts & Labor are calling it a day and throwing a farewell jamz bash to ring in the band's indefinite hiatus on Friday at 285 Kent. Co... More >>

• Q&A: Charles Gayle On Homelessness, Streets The Clown, And His Faith

  published Feb 08, 2012

  This week the Voice sat down with New York jazz titan Charles Gayle, whose new album Streets portends a man on a quest to find peace within his craft and headspace. Gayle and Tom Surgal (of local avan... More >>

• Charles Gayle Embraces His Alter Ego

  published February 8, 2012

  The East Village has been transformed into a high-rise highbrow apocalypse, but at least one vestige of downtown's grizzled avant-garde... More >>

• Q&A: Hospitality's Amber Papini On Competing with NYC Noise-Rock, Signing with Merge, And The Red Hook Scene

  published Feb 03, 2012

  As the Billyburg/Bushwick/Greenpoint underground overloads itself with crude art-noize slop, the clean-cut, pop-obsessive whizzes in the Red Hook-based Hospitality are quite the welcome anomaly. With ... More >>

• Q&A: Pissed Jeans' Matt Korvette On Having Kids, Listening To Techno, And Not Naming His Band "Unrequited Hard-On"

  published Jan 20, 2012

  The resurgent noisecore and pigfuck scenes are currently all the rage in the DIY warehouse spaces and shithole lofts littering Brooklyn and beyond. This weekend, the PA skuzzballs Pissed Jeans—w... More >>

• Q&A: Mission of Burma's Peter Prescott On Boston Punk, Singing Drummers, Volcano Suns And Kustomized

  published Jan 19, 2012

  In a recent convo with Sound of the City, Sebadoh/Dino Jr icon and ex-Amherst punker Lou Barlow waxed nostalgic for Boston's music scene, both snickering at the hardcore simpletons brutalizing innocen... More >>

• Q&A: Scarcity Of Tanks' Matthew Wascovich On Not Being A Poet, Cleveland Punk, SST Records, And Releasing Two New Albums On The Same Day

  published Jan 18, 2012

  Bottomless songwriting pit machinist Bob Pollard has some friendly in-state competition from fellow Ohio native and Scarcity Of Tanks guru Matthew Wascovich. The Clevo skater/sporto/wordsmith/punk dud... More >>

• Seabrook Power Plant

  published January 4, 2012

  Tech-metallic squelching converges with Black Flag's instrumental punk-jazz rave ups and avant-Americana folkwaysian riffage in the maniacal and... More >>

• Fat Worm of Error

  published January 4, 2012

  Sightings's bassman Richard Hoffman personally assembled this murders row of noisemongering experimentalists all the way from the left coast to... More >>