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.
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Chuckii Booker, Janet Jackson: Janet Jackson/Chuckii Booker: Madison Square Garden, New York
Live Review by Jason Cohen, Sounds, 5 May 1990
EVERYONE from white guys with bad Bon Jovi hair to teenyboppers of every colour and class were out tonight. ...
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, ...
Profile and Interview by Jason Cohen, Option, May 1992
BOBBY GILLESPIE can't stop being a fan. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pond (USA): Pond: Pond (Sub Pop)
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Prince and The New Power Generation: The Sunrise Musical Theatre, Florida
Live Review by Jason Cohen, Spin, June 1993
"Y'ALL MAKE ME SORRY I stayed away so long," Prince declared, as the opening night of his first American tour in five years reached a ...
Butthole Surfers: The Butthole Surfers: In Through the Back Door
Profile and Interview by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 24 June 1993
The Butthole Surfers are the certified shock jocks of the next wave ...
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 ...
The Fall: Mark E. Smith's Wrath & Roll
Profile and Interview by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 16 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, ...
The Lemonheads: Lemonheads: Roseland Ballroom, New York City
Live Review by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 27 January 1994
THE SIDEWALK outside Roseland told the story: dozens of parents, a few clutching the Playbill from My Fair Lady next door, all lined up at ...
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 ...
Pavement: The Road Less Traveled: Pavement's Crooked Path to Stardom
Profile and Interview by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 14 July 1994
FOR A BAND that is decidedly reticent about the prospect of mass exposure, Pavement are awfully good at getting it. In their earliest days, when ...
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, ...
Oasis: Maxwells, Hoboken, N.J.
Live Review by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 15 December 1994
FOR A YOUNG but already massive British band, there's nothing quite so incongruous as the first American tour. Goodbye to blind worship, magazine covers and ...
Candlebox: Keepers Of The Flame
Interview by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 23 February 1995
DEFYING THE ALTERNATIVE-ROCK TREND, CANDLEBOX BREAK OUT OF SEATTLE WITH TRADITIONAL POP METAL ...
Nine Inch Nails: Madison Square Garden, New York City
Live Review by Jason Cohen, Spin, March 1995
FOR A LONG TIME NOW, there's been but one thing missing from Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails: Crackerjacks! ...
Suede: The London Suede: Manhattan Center Ballroom, New York NY
Live Review by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 6 April 1995
"THIS IS A boring old one," Brett Anderson says with a shrug, and then Suede ignite 'Animal Nitrate', a typically brazen concoction of straight-razor guitar, ...
Report and Interview by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 18 May 1995
OASIS CROSS THE ATLANTIC WITH A HOT RECORD, TWO BATTLING BROTHERS AND ATTITUDE TO SPARE. ...
Review by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 29 June 1995
BARELY A year old, Gene have already attracted the standard amount of instant acclaim in merry old England. In this latest case the critical clamor ...
Report and Interview by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 24 August 1995
While the Courtney saga continues, Hole prove that a rock & roll band is the sum of its parts ...
Report and Interview by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 5 October 1995
Garbage's masterminds craft murky pop into an album that's impossible to refuse ...
The Walkabouts: 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 ...
Live: "Live!" "Hootie!" "Live!" "Hootie!"
Profile and Interview by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 25 January 1996
THIS IS THE exchange on the streets, a cry that rises up as the members of Live make their escape from the 1995 Billboard Music ...
Pavement: Liberty Lunch, Austin, Texas
Live Review by Jason Cohen, Spin, May 1996
THERE AREN'T many Australian tours with Texas on the itinerary, but leave it to Pavement's Stephen Malkmus to figure that America's Western states are, like, ...
The Cardigans: First Band On The Moon (Mercury) ****
Review by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 14 November 1996
IN THIS WORLD of cookie-cutter,post-alternative bands, the Cardigans are fueled by a deep and abiding faith in novelty. ...
Review by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 28 November 1996
The Real Presidential Debate ...
The Divine Comedy: Casanova (Setanta) ****
Review by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 17 April 1997
LIKE MOST tortured artists, Neil Hannon is filled with anguish and frustration. But Hannon, the Irishman who is the Divine Comedy, has little use for ...
Charlatans, The (UK), Primal Scream: Primal Scream: Vanishing Point; Charlatans UK: Tellin' Stories
Review by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 10 July 1997
YES, VIRGINIA, there were rock & roll-meets-club culture collisions before the electronica boomlet. Take Primal Scream's 1991 masterpiece Screamadelica, a soulful, druggy expansion of rock's ...
Lucinda Williams, Ryan Adams, Wilco: Lost Highway Blues
Report by Jason Cohen, Slate, 14 August 2001
The dirty little secret about Ryan Adams and his record label. ...
The Strokes: England's Creaming…
Profile and Interview by Jason Cohen, Spin, November 2001
…itself over New York City "it" band The Strokes. So who the hell are they? ...
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 ...
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. ...
Charlatans, The (UK): The Charlatans
Report and Interview by Jason Cohen, CMJ New Music Monthly, Fall 2001
TIM BURGESS is waiting for his man. ...
Interview by Jason Cohen, Spin, April 2002
AN EVENING with …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead goes something like this: For dinner, Conrad Keely and Kevin Allen kill ...
John Denver, Twisted Sister: Let Freedom Sing: Tipper Gore versus Twisted Sister
Retrospective by Jason Cohen, TV Guide, 20 April 2002
TIPPER GORE is showing way too much leg. The future second lady shimmies on both knees across a conference table, chest out, hips on a ...
Bob Mould, Paul Westerberg: The Living End: Can Bob Mould and Paul Westerberg handle middle age?
Review by Jason Cohen, Slate, 30 April 2002
OLD ROCKERS keep on getting younger. "Hope I die before I get old" remains the relevant credo, but it's no longer restricted to those who ...
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. ...
Alice In Chains: The Man Boxed In: Layne Staley, 1967-2002
Obituary by Jason Cohen, Spin, July 2002
LAYNE STALEY was already something of a ghost. Alice in Chains, the Seattle band he'd fronted since 1987, was officially on "hiatus," a two-year respite ...
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. ...
The New Pornographers: Bands to watch: The New Pornographers
Profile and Interview by Jason Cohen, Spin, June 2003
They may look like mild-mannered grad students, but they're actually super-rockin' Canadians!: Todd Fancey, Neko Case, Blaine Thurier, Carl Newman, Kurt Dahle, and John Collins ...
Profile and Interview by Jason Cohen, Spin, July 2003
WHO: Florida femme fatale "VV" and Englishman "Hotel," chain-smoking vegans with a beatbox and vintage gear, both of whom sing and play guitar. ...
Gram Parsons: Parsons Lives in Film: Grand Theft opens in theaters tomorrow
Report and Interview by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2004
IT'S ONE OF rock & roll's great mythologies: the day Phil Kaufman stole Gram Parsons' body, keeping a promise to give his friend a fiery ...
Townes Van Zandt: Van Zandt's New "Love"
Report by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 23 September 2004
IF YOU KNOW your Texas music, it's a famous story: in 1970 a young Joe Ely picked up a hitchhiker on his way to Houston. ...
Nick Cave and Australia's Bad Deeds
Report and Interview by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2006
Rocker's screenplay for The Proposition considers Australia's "open wounds" ...
Seymour Stein: Shellac in My Veins
Retrospective and Interview by Jason Cohen, Cincinatti Magazine, March 2008
A New York City record man recalls his dearest mentor. ...
Franz Ferdinand, Cold War Kids: Portland, Oregon
Live Review by Jason Cohen, Rolling Stone, 17 December 2008
CHRISTMAS GIFTS from 94/7 FM come in bigger packages: the Portland alternative station's "December to Remember" concert series features eight bands over four evenings, instead ...
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