No Effects with Jesse Cohen

My guests this week are Michael 'Fitz' Fitzpatrick and Noelle Scaggs of Fitz and the Tantrums. Fitz and Noelle share with me stories from their many years they individually spent struggling to find a career in music before breaking out with Fitz and the Tantrums. This episode is brought to you by Away. Head to awaytravel.com and use promo code "noeffects" to save $20 on one of their fantastic pieces of luggage.

My guest this week is Lorely Rodriguez, the artist known as @EmpressOf. Lorely shares with me about growing up in Los Angeles with a musical/not-musical family, going to Berklee School of Music, how getting a laptop changed her life, and much much more. Plus another great Canadian border crossing story! Empress Of's most recent album, "Me" is out now on @xl-recordings. This is part 2 of my live show recorded at Moogfest, in Durham in May 2016. Part 1, with Julia Holter, is also available right now.

Recorded LIVE @Moogfest 2016 in May 2016 in Durham, North Carolina! This is part one of two. @JuliaHolter joins me to talk about growing up in Los Angeles, having two planners, studying composition at the University of Michigan, performing at bookstores, at much more. Plus, the crowd is mic'd so you can hear when they laugh and compare it to your own reactions! Julia Holter's most recent album, "Have You in My Wilderness" is out now on @dominorecordco. Thanks to the great organizers of Moogfest for setting this up and recording it.

Patrick is best known as one half of the band @Chairlift. He's also well known as a music producer in his own right. He's less known for being lead snare of a WORLD CHAMPION drumline team. He's a very gifted and very humble man. We talk about all of those things and more on this week's No Effects.

@TeganandSara Quin are identical twin sisters from Canada who have been playing music as Tegan and Sara since the late 90's. They are gay women in their mid-30's who are now huge pop stars and there's no one quite like them in music. Our conversation spans their entire career, but a lot of it is about their early years, their ups and downs, their times apart from each other, and how they eventually built a huge community around themselves and their music.

Andrew Savage from the band @Parquet-Courts joins me this week. Listen as he sails a Bob Seger reference way over my head, talks music school, what it's like as a DIY band playing festivals and large venues, and much much more. Parquet Courts' most recent album "Human Performance" is out now on @roughtraderecords.

@Julianna-Barwick new album "Will" is out on May 6, 2016 on @DeadOceans. Listen to Julianna tell me about growing up in the church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, moving to New York, her early experiences doing music in Brooklyn and around the world, and how she made her new album "Will". Plus, her time as an intern for a very famous children's musician, and much much more. Julianna is a true one-of-a-kinder and I loved talking to her for an hour. I think you will too.

Recorded at an AirBnb down in Austin, Texas during SXSW 2016, this is my great conversation with Chris Baio (@cbaio). Chris plays bass in Vampire Weekend and plays everything in his own project Baio. Chris is a super nice guy who is super talented and this is a super conversation. As always, we delve into early bands and how he started playing in Vampire Weekend. Also, he tells me about mixing his album in Malibu, living in London, and much much more. Plus, I go negative on the Chi-peps. Chris's album "The Names" is out now on @glassnotemusic

Kristin tells me about her life before, during, and after being Dee Dee from the Dum Dum Girls, and her new project, Kristin Kontol (@kristinkontrol). Kristin Kontrol's album "X-Communicate" is out now on @subpop.

A fantastic double xl episode of No Effects this week with god in chief of @GODMODEinternet, Nick Sylvester. Before helming his own record label / management / production company GODMODE and producing albums for Shamir, Deerhoof and more, Nick was a teenage trumpet player performing at weddings and bar mitzvahs in Philadelphia. After that, he was a Harvard kid writing snarky album reviews for Pitchfork. After that, he was a writer for the Colbert Report for 4 years. After that, he started a muscular brooklyn rock band called Mr. Dream. And now, he is putting it all together in a really unique way at GODMODE. He's a true one-of-a-kinder and I was very happy to talk to him about all that and more.