No Effects with Jesse Cohen

UMO (@unknownmortalorchestra) is the band, and Ruban Neilson is who I talked to in this episode. Ruban is from New Zealand, but started UMO in Portland, Oregon where he's lived for several years now. We talked about how he got here, his first tours, and how he made his great new album Multi-Love (out now on @jagjaguwar). Plus, punk house chili makes another appearance.

A seminal episode of No Effects with my guest this week, Molly Neuman. Molly played drums in the seminal Riot Grrrl band Bratmobile. But wait, there is much much more. Molly's career in independent music also has included running the seminal punk label Lookout!, managing seminal punk artist Ted Leo, and being VP of seminal trade association A2IM.

Almost 90 whole minutes of *somewhat* neuroses-fueled convo with Ezra Koenig from @Vampire-Weekend !

Couldn't be happier to share this episode with you guys--- my guest this week is @AliShaheed Muhammad, DJ, producer, and founding member of A Tribe Called Quest !!! We talked about Brooklyn in 2015, Los Angeles in 1989, his own podcast "Microphone Check" (@frannieandali), touring, making music, and much much more.

The band is called @Drenge and they are two brothers named Eoin and Rory Loveless and they are from a place called Castleton, which is in Derbyshire, which is in England. They're young and on the way up and I do my best to relate to them and they did their best to relate to me, and it was an all around great time.

Jon Spencer was kind enough to sit with me in the basement where his band practices and walk me through his 20+ years of being a professional musician. It's a great conversation, he's got a great perspective, and I am happy to remind him over and over again that it's okay to swear on a podcast. Enjoy!

I had a great conversation with @Kelelam and, fortunately for you guys, I recorded it. You can listen to that conversation right now in this week's episode of No Effects :) We talked about playing music in art galleries, family, Guns Germs & Steel, Montgomery County, Maryland, going to college, and much much more.

Episode number 30... where has the time gone?? Actually, now that I think about it, it's been about a year and 30 episodes is a great number of episodes for one year! My guest this week is Oliver Ackermann, who plays in the band A Place to Bury Strangers and also started and runs a guitar effects company called Death By Audio. He answered all of my questions about running an effects business and also told some great stories about all the things he has done in his career. Really an A+ dude and an A+ episode. Enjoy!

This week's guest is Alex Bleeker, who plays bass and sings in @Real-Estate-the-band and guitar in Alex Bleeker and the Freaks. Alex and I talked about starting out playing music in high school, doing experimental theater, booking tours on myspace, and much much more. Great dude, great guest, great episode.

Live from Vimeo Headquarters in Manhattan, this week I am joined by the wonderful and remarkable Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair. K + B are the creators of the great TV show / web series High Maintenance. I am a huge fan and was really excited to talk to them about creating the show, creating things in general, working together, working in general, and much much more. High Maintenance can be found on Vimeo, with brand new episodes going up February 5th 2015. Enjoy them all! UPDATE: High Maintenance is now on HBO. Watch it!