No Effects with Jesse Cohen

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.