No Effects with Jesse Cohen

Arthur Ashin, the artist currently known as Autre Ne Veut (@autrenv), joins me to tell me about his parents, his near birth experience, his favorite concert of all time, his new album, his college theory days, and much much more. His new album "Age of Transparency" is available now from Downtown Records.

Trevor Powers records as Youth Lagoon and he has a great new album out right now called "Savage Hills Ballroom" (on @fatpossum). Go listen to it! He's an amiable guy who was happy talk baseball, to listen to me casually psychoanalyze his love of the movie "Castaway" and much MUCH more

Welcome to episode 45 of No Effects with Jesse Cohen! On this episode, my guest, Ed Droste, and I talk about the early days of @GrizzlyBearBand, moving to Los Angeles, envying DJ's, writing music for the radio, and much much more. FYI: I recorded this conversation at Ed's home in Los Angeles back in March, about 6 months ago.

Molly Lambert is a writer for Grantland and a podcast host there as well. She's a dear dear friend and I was very happy to talk to her back in March in Los Angeles. She tells me about how she started writing and how she believes that every TV writer has a deep, dark, secret.

Part 2 of a double episode!! My guest is the artist, rapper, musician, and energy drink manufacturer Juiceboxxx. We talk about Juice's long career starting out as a teenager in Milwaukee, touring the DIY circuit, touring with Public Enemy in Canada, meeting with labels, his goals and ambitions, and a lot in between. We also talk about the new book about him and some of his thoughts about that. Make sure to check out episode 41, with Leon Neyfakh, who just wrote that book about Juiceboxxx, which is called The Next Next Level.

DOUBLE EPISODE!!! On part one of my first double episode, my guest is writer and journalist Leon Neyfakh. Leon's written for the Boston Globe, New Yorker, Slate, etc, but the reason he's on my show is because he just wrote a book called The Next Next Level: A Story of Rap, Friendship, and Almost Giving Up. The subject of that book is the rapper and artist Juiceboxxx, who is my guest in part 2 of this double podcast. We talk about his book and his career and the many many feelings and thoughts I had about his book on this great episode. It's one of my favorites.

Tom Arsenault is the artist known as @MasYsa and he is currently on tour with us. As we speak, he is sound checking in a room in Atlanta directly behind me. He is equally passionate as a performer as he is a human being. He's one of a kind, and I have enjoyed getting to know him out here on tour. This podcast documents our first conversation before we left for tour. We talk about growing up in Montreal and Sao Paulo, being a turntablist, and his unique live show. His great debut album Seraph is out July 24th

Spoke to Alexis Taylor of @Hot_Chip over a weekend trip in New York City on how his band is like both Wu Tang Clan and Squeeze, what it's like to work with people he's known since age 11 and his distinctive, intricate and humorous lyrics. I also recorded an intro for this episode while out on tour with Tanlines, while walking down the street in San Francisco. It's a full update about how the shows are going, how we got robbed in St. Louis, and what it's like touring with a full band for the first time. The interview with Alexis begins at the six minute mark

My guest this week is Norwegian artist @JennyHval. Join us as we talk about 2 Unlimited, music lessons, and her totally unique stage setup. And, of course, much much more. Her new album Apocalypse, Girl is out right now on @SacredBones.