No Effects With Jesse Cohen

Arthur Ashin, the artist currently known as Autre Ne Veut (@autrenv), joins me to tell me about his parents, his near birth experience, his favorite concert of all time, his new album, his college theory days, and much much more. His new album "Age of Transparency" is available now from Downtown Records.

Trevor Powers records as Youth Lagoon and he has a great new album out right now called "Savage Hills Ballroom" (on @fatpossum). Go listen to it! He's an amiable guy who was happy talk baseball, to listen to me casually psychoanalyze his love of the movie "Castaway" and much MUCH more

Welcome to episode 45 of No Effects with Jesse Cohen! On this episode, my guest, Ed Droste, and I talk about the early days of @GrizzlyBearBand, moving to Los Angeles, envying DJ's, writing music for the radio, and much much more. FYI: I recorded this conversation at Ed's home in Los Angeles back in March, about 6 months ago.

Albert Hammond, Jr joins me in my kitchen to talk about his new album "Momentary Masters" and married life upstate. We talk about the time that Tanlines played the main stage at FYF before The Strokes, we talk about difference between making an album 10 years ago and today, and we talk about much much more.

Molly Lambert is a writer for Grantland and a podcast host there as well. She's a dear dear friend and I was very happy to talk to her back in March in Los Angeles. She tells me about how she started writing and how she believes that every TV writer has a deep, dark, secret.

DOUBLE EPISODE!!! On part one of my first double episode, my guest is writer and journalist Leon Neyfakh. Leon's written for the Boston Globe, New Yorker, Slate, etc, but the reason he's on my show is because he just wrote a book called The Next Next Level: A Story of Rap, Friendship, and Almost Giving Up. The subject of that book is the rapper and artist Juiceboxxx, who is my guest in part 2 of this double podcast. We talk about his book and his career and the many many feelings and thoughts I had about his book on this great episode. It's one of my favorites.

Part 2 of a double episode!! My guest is the artist, rapper, musician, and energy drink manufacturer Juiceboxxx. We talk about Juice's long career starting out as a teenager in Milwaukee, touring the DIY circuit, touring with Public Enemy in Canada, meeting with labels, his goals and ambitions, and a lot in between. We also talk about the new book about him and some of his thoughts about that. Make sure to check out episode 41, with Leon Neyfakh, who just wrote that book about Juiceboxxx, which is called The Next Next Level.

Tom Arsenault is the artist known as @MasYsa and he is currently on tour with us. As we speak, he is sound checking in a room in Atlanta directly behind me. He is equally passionate as a performer as he is a human being. He's one of a kind, and I have enjoyed getting to know him out here on tour. This podcast documents our first conversation before we left for tour. We talk about growing up in Montreal and Sao Paulo, being a turntablist, and his unique live show. His great debut album Seraph is out July 24th

Spoke to Alexis Taylor of @Hot_Chip over a weekend trip in New York City on how his band is like both Wu Tang Clan and Squeeze, what it’s like to work with people he's known since age 11 and his distinctive, intricate and humorous lyrics. I also recorded an intro for this episode while out on tour with Tanlines, while walking down the street in San Francisco. It's a full update about how the shows are going, how we got robbed in St. Louis, and what it's like touring with a full band for the first time. The interview with Alexis begins at the six minute mark

My guest this week is Norwegian artist @JennyHval. Join us as we talk about 2 Unlimited, music lessons, and her totally unique stage setup. And, of course, much much more. Her new album Apocalypse, Girl is out right now on @SacredBones.

UMO (@unknownmortalorchestra) is the band, and Ruban Neilson is who I talked to in this episode. Ruban is from New Zealand, but started UMO in Portland, Oregon where he's lived for several years now. We talked about how he got here, his first tours, and how he made his great new album Multi-Love (out now on @jagjaguwar). Plus, punk house chili makes another appearance.

A seminal episode of No Effects with my guest this week, Molly Neuman. Molly played drums in the seminal Riot Grrrl band Bratmobile. But wait, there is much much more. Molly's career in independent music also has included running the seminal punk label Lookout!, managing seminal punk artist Ted Leo, and being VP of seminal trade association A2IM.

Almost 90 whole minutes of *somewhat* neuroses-fueled convo with Ezra Koenig from @Vampire-Weekend !

Couldn't be happier to share this episode with you guys--- my guest this week is @AliShaheed Muhammad, DJ, producer, and founding member of A Tribe Called Quest !!! We talked about Brooklyn in 2015, Los Angeles in 1989, his own podcast "Microphone Check" (@frannieandali), touring, making music, and much much more.

The band is called @Drenge and they are two brothers named Eoin and Rory Loveless and they are from a place called Castleton, which is in Derbyshire, which is in England. They're young and on the way up and I do my best to relate to them and they did their best to relate to me, and it was an all around great time.

Jon Spencer was kind enough to sit with me in the basement where his band practices and walk me through his 20+ years of being a professional musician. It's a great conversation, he's got a great perspective, and I am happy to remind him over and over again that it's okay to swear on a podcast. Enjoy!

I had a great conversation with @Kelelam and, fortunately for you guys, I recorded it. You can listen to that conversation right now in this week's episode of No Effects :) We talked about playing music in art galleries, family, Guns Germs & Steel, Montgomery County, Maryland, going to college, and much much more.

Episode number 30... where has the time gone?? Actually, now that I think about it, it's been about a year and 30 episodes is a great number of episodes for one year! My guest this week is Oliver Ackermann, who plays in the band A Place to Bury Strangers and also started and runs a guitar effects company called Death By Audio. He answered all of my questions about running an effects business and also told some great stories about all the things he has done in his career. Really an A+ dude and an A+ episode. Enjoy!

This week's guest is Alex Bleeker, who plays bass and sings in @Real-Estate-the-band and guitar in Alex Bleeker and the Freaks. Alex and I talked about starting out playing music in high school, doing experimental theater, booking tours on myspace, and much much more. Great dude, great guest, great episode.

Live from Vimeo Headquarters in Manhattan, this week I am joined by the wonderful and remarkable Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair. K + B are the creators of the great TV show / web series High Maintenance. I am a huge fan and was really excited to talk to them about creating the show, creating things in general, working together, working in general, and much much more. High Maintenance can be found on Vimeo, with brand new episodes going up February 5th 2015. Enjoy them all! UPDATE: High Maintenance is now on HBO. Watch it!