Jason Cohen
Jason Cohen's first paid work of writing was a Mekons interview for Rockpool. He has also written about music for Option, Details, Rolling Stone, SPIN, Request, Blender, MOJO, Stereophile, CMJ, the Austin Chronicle, Pop Culture Press, The Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock and one of the less memorable versions of CREEM.
Cohen is currently a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly and a contributing editor to Portland Monthly. He lives Portland, Oregon; Missoula, Montana and maybe somewhere else by now. He likes to watch TV.
List of articles in the library by artist
Ryan Adams, Wilco, Lucinda Williams: Lost Highway Blues
Report by Jason Cohen, slate.com, August 2001
The dirty little secret about Ryan Adams and his record label. ...
Report and Interview by Jason Cohen, Details, May 1994
The Afghan Whigs have made a career out of confrontation, failed love affairs, and loud guitars. Jason Cohen joins their traveling circus of maladjustment in ...
Butthole Surfers: The Butthole Surfers: In Through the Back Door
Profile and Interview by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, June 1993
The Butthole Surfers are the certified shock jocks of the next wave ...
Charlatans, The (UK): The Charlatans
Report and Interview by Jason Cohen, CMJ New Music Monthly, Fall 2001
TIM BURGESS is waiting for his man. ...
Review by Jason Cohen, Creem, October 1992
FOR THE LAST ten years, every time there was a public poetry reading, ROIR cassette or CD reissue by Richard Hell, my friend Michael and ...
Interview by Jason Cohen, Option, May 1992
IF YOU GO by what's been written about Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis, his music, history and personality could be summed in the following list: loud, ...
Alejandro Escovedo: Gravity (Watermelon)
Review by Jason Cohen, Creem, November 1992
A MEMBER of the same clan that produced percussionists Coke, Pete, and Sheila, the fortysomething Escovedo played in S.F. prototype punkers the Nuns, cowpunk originators ...
Fall, The: Mark E. Smith's Wrath & Roll
Profile and Interview by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, September 1993
MARK E. SMITH is one of Britain's great misanthropes. On the 1980 live album Totale's Turns, only the third record by his band the Fall, ...
Flaming Lips: The Band That Fell to Earth: The Flaming Lips' Christmas on Mars
Report and Interview by Jason Cohen, CMJ New Music Monthly, July 2002
WAYNE COYNE'S creative mission for the evening is to get the pants off his manager's young intern. ...
Profile and Interview by Jason Cohen, Creem, June 1993
SEATTLE'S MOST incendiary and intriguing electric guitarist has nothing to do with that city's rock scene. ...
Report and Interview by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, October 1995
Garbage's masterminds craft murky pop into an album that's impossible to refuse ...
Review by Jason Cohen, Creem, June 1993
THOSE WHO found Nanci Griffith's last two efforts for MCA to be awash in pop-lite production and overblown instrumentation should take Other Voices, Other Rooms ...
Review by Jason Cohen, Creem, July 1993
GUTTERBALL IS one-time Dream Syndicate leader Steve Wynn, House of Freaks members Bryan Harvey and Johnny Hott, their part-time guitarist (and ex-Silo) Bob Rupe, and ...
Report and Interview by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, August 1995
While the Courtney saga continues, Hole prove that a rock & roll band is the sum of its parts ...
Profile and Interview by Jason Cohen, Option, November 1994
TEN YEARS AGO Daniel Johnston roamed the streets of Austin, Texas, passing out cassettes of his homemade songcraft to just about anyone he encountered. Someday, ...
Discography by Jason Cohen, Stereophile, Summer 2001
WHEN IRS RECORDS gave Kirsty MacColl the best-of-treatment in 1995, the CD booklet overflowed with praise from famous fans and comrades. ...
Review by Jason Cohen, Creem, March 1993
THOUGH IT DOES hail from the Northwestern part of the United States, Pond is not hairy, metallic, or from Seattle. Instead, clean-shaven guitarist/vocalist Charlie Campbell ...
Interview by Jason Cohen, Stereophile, Winter 2001
THE NEWS was right up there with Brian Wilson playing Pet Sounds live, Steely Dan making a new record and Mario Lemieux lacing up the ...
Profile and Interview by Jason Cohen, Option, May 1992
BOBBY GILLESPIE can't stop being a fan. ...
Stone Temple Pilots: Core (Atlantic)
Review by Jason Cohen, Creem, January 1993
IT LOOKS like Stone Temple Pilots are the first of what will be a long line of post-Pearl Jam/Soundgarden/Nirvana major-label grunge contenders. So, let's give ...
Walkabouts, The: Strangely Famous in Greece, the Walkabouts Trace Their American Roots
Profile and Interview by Jason Cohen, Option, November 1995
IT'S SATURDAY, just past noon, in Austin, Texas. A fine time to be in bed, or at the very least, shaking off sleep over a ...
Andrew WK: Super Fan: Andrew W.K.
Interview by Jason Cohen, unpublished, Fall 2002
With his anthems 'Party Hard' and 'It's Time to Party' blasting from stadiums, soundtracking Sportscenter highlights and fueling beer commercials, Ann Arbor,MI native Andrew W.K. ...
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