No Effects With Jesse Cohen

It's a trip down memory lane... as well as present boulevard AND future street with this week's great guest Mike Pace. Mike recounts his early days of being in a band on Long Island, finding success with the Oxford Collapse, doing standup, hosting the great (and defunct) Worst Gig Ever Podcast, and finally, writing and producing his new solo album. Mike Pace and the Child Actors' "Best Boy" is out NOW... go check it out. Enjoy!

Another XXL episode of No Effects. This week, I spoke with Rami Haykal and Jake Rosenthal, the co-owners of Glasslands, a very special music venue here in Brooklyn. Glasslands will sadly be closing at the end of this year, so I thought I would try to capture some of what made it special and say goodbye in this episode. Along the way, you will hear some truly depressing stories of terrible shows my bands have played (and one great one), as well as learning about where Rami and Jake come from, what they care about, and why they are the good kind of club owner. Thanks dudes! Good luck in whatever comes next. Also, everyone else: happy new year!

A double XL episode of No Effects this week as I'm joined by T Magazine Critic-at-Large Jody Rosen. Jody and I cover a lot on this one, including his long career as a music critic, hanging out with Graduation-era Kanye, the 2006 Mets, and how happy Jody is not to have to weigh in on the new Kendrick Lamar song. Also, for the kids, a helpful step-by-step guide to how you can become a successful music critic some day ;(

All three members of Ex Hex join me on this week's No Effects. For those of you keeping score, that's Mary Timony, Laura Harris, and Betsy Wright. Join me by listening this week and you will learn about how Mary, Laura, and Betsy met each other, wrote and recorded their excellent album "Rips", went on tour together, and so much much more. I also talk a lot about Washington DC... hopefully in a cool way!

Another great episode of No Effects! Live from Los Angeles this week, my guest is Mr. George Lewis, Jr. aka the man/band @Twin-Shadow. George shares with me all about how his life got flipped turned upside down and he'd like to take about 60 minutes, just sit right there, he'll tell you how he became the prince of a town called downtown LA.

For the first time ever, I am joined on No Effects by an entire band full of guys. The band is Museum of Love and the guys are just two guys: Pat Mahoney and Dennis McNany. Our great conversation ranges from Irish stuff, getting older and funkier (*sorry), playing in hardcore bands and LCD Soundsystem, becoming a singer, and much much more. As always: no effects. Museum of Love's new album, also called Museum of Love, is out NOW on @DFA-Records

A very family-friendly episode of No Effects this week, as I'm joined by Aaron Coyes, who along with his wife Indra Dunis, is one half of the musical duo @PeakingLights. Aaron, Indra, and their two children make up a very unique touring party for a very unique band. Aaron tells me about building synths, moving to New Zealand, moving to Wisconsin, meeting Indra, and making Peaking Lights together. Their new album, "Cosmic Logic", is out right now.

Live and direct from both Los Angeles, where I am right now, and also New York, where I recorded this conversation... it's another great episode of No Effects! On this episode, my guest is the very talented and very cool Mapei. We talk about Mapei's childhood in Sweden and the US, her new album Hey Hey, I name drop The High and Mighty about four or five times, and much much more. ENJOY.

The big fall podcasting season is FINALLY upon us, and I'm here to meet it with my longest episode ever... which also happens to be one of the best. My guest this week is @SashaFrereJones and we spent a solid 1.5 hours discussing his career both as a music writer for the New Yorker and as a musician with his band Ui. Many many topics are covered and many many opinions are expressed, and you'll just have to listen to hear all of them. Sasha is a true music lover, from every angle possible, and I really enjoyed talking to him.

Ahmed Gallab, the artist better known as @Sinkane, is my guest on a great episode of No Effects this week. I surprised Ahmed by showing up at his apartment at the time that we had agreed upon, which he had forgotten about, and then I believe I surprised him with what turned out to be a great conversation. We talked about about his life from Sudan to Ohio and his attitude and approach to being a solo artist, with an emphasis on collaboration. Lots of good stuff here. Enjoy! Listen to Sinkane on @dfa-records

Syd Butler joins me this week to tell me (and you) about his many many jobs, including playing in Les Savy Fav, playing in the Studio 8G band on Late Night with Seth Myers, running @FrenchKiss_Records, and many many more jobs. We also talk about growing up in Washington DC, going to college with Seth MacFarlane, zoos, and many many more things. There are absolutely NO EFFECTS on this episode...that's right NONE.

On this episode of No Effects, I spoke to 22-year-old producer / musician / DJ @JimEStack about his new album "Tell Me I Belong", growing up in San Francisco, discovering Jazz and House music, and much more. I also tell the story of how we met at a very ill-fated Mad Decent block party in Chicago and did I mention much much more? Enjoy!

On this episode, I spoke with Max Silvestri. Max is a comedian, comedy writer, comedy performer, and comedy food television host. If you're sensing a theme it's because Max is a very funny, by my standards and by those of society in general. He's also very smart and thoughtful, and he shares with us a bunch of thoughts on his career, his work ethic, how he became known as a "food comic" or whatever, and much much more. Max has a brand new album called King Piglet, which is probably available wherever you're listening to this podcast, and he will be hosting the forthcoming TV show "The Feed" on the forthcoming FYI network. Check those things out.

On this week's episode, my guest is Tom Krell, the artist slash musician known as @HowtoDressWell. At 10 AM in the conference room of a publicist's office, Tom and I managed to have a really interesting and hopefully entertaining conversation about music, life, and philosophy. He also explained to me how time is not in fact a flat circle but actually a three dimensional cone ▁ ▂ ▃ ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ █ ▉ ▊

I'm back with another great episode of No Effects. I was barely gone, actually, but I'm happy to be back. On this episode, I spoke to Hamilton Leithauser about his new album "Black Hours", working as a solo artist, fatherhood, fantasy basketball, the Walkmen, and much much more, in no particular order, as always. Also... check out @hamiltonrostam !

Another multi-instrumentalist! Also much much more than that, Dave Harrington is one half of the electronic / dance / jam band Darkside (@daftside-2). He was also once a little kid carrying an upright bass onto the subway to go to his lessons, which is a very very cute image. He tells me (and you) all about that, playing in party bands, meeting and teaming up with Nicolas Jaar, and much much more, on this week's episode of No Effects.

We're going viral!!! That's because Peggy Wang is my guest this week on No Effects, she's an editor at @Buzzfeed, and she promised to use the full power of that internet megacompany to promote this episode across ALL platforms. jkjkjkjk but really we talked about a lot of great stuff including: chatroom romance, New Orleans, and her time playing in @ThePainsofBeingPure at Heart. As badly as I wanted to ask her about the name of that band, I stayed true to my promise to you and didn't bring it up. ENJOY!

After a disastrous first try, Frankie joins me for a second time to talk about her record for playing in the most bands, figuring out how to be a frontwoman, being "over it" when it comes to being in a band, moving west, and much much more on another wikipedia-less edition of No Effects with Jesse Cohen.

On this week's episode of No Effects, I spoke with Derek Miller, who writes songs and plays guitar for his band @SleighBells. It was a great, wide ranging, fast moving, sometimes-personal conversation that covered: Florida, tipping sound guys, how quickly you should release music, sunglasses, writing on the road, professional sports, and much much more in no particular order whatsoever. Enjoy!!

Abbi Jacobson is one half of the duo that has created, written, and stars in the fantastic new TV show Broad City, on @ComedyCentral. HIGHEST POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATION. She was gracious enough to invite me into her home to discuss how she started performing in New York, what it's like to shoot on a New York City subway, the best Jewish deli in Merion, Pennsylvania, and much much more. I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did having it.