Daniel Kohn

Daniel Kohn

Ever since he first heard the opening chords to "Smells Like Teen Spirit," at the age of 11, Daniel Kohn has been hooked on music. Born in New York City, raised in the music hotbed of Long Island and currently residing in Los Angeles, Kohn has been writing since high school, when he realized he could get CDs for free. He's a sucker for '90s music, especially that from Seattle. Like a small minority of Americans, he likes football of the European variety, especially Liverpool. When he's not chasing down bands, you can find him at your local pub with a pint of Carlsberg, usually at ungodly hours cheering on his beloved Reds. 

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Thursday night in Los Angeles was unlike any we’d seen in a while: it rained. Yes, the presses stopped and everything stood still, literally. Except that is live music. Fans in the City of Angels had a smorgasbord of choices: Cat Power, Titus Andronicus and Delta Spirit. I chose the latter. The Wiltern was the choice venue for this show, and tho...
As everyone knows by now, Superstorm Sandy (or whatever you want to call it) pretty much destroyed New York and New Jersey. Dayton-based Heartless Bastards were a band who got diverted from their tour schedule due to the storm, but managed to survive and talk about it. Their latest video for “Marathon” channels the Wizard of Oz and though the sto...

Artist of the Week: Freelance Whales

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Tuesday, 06 November 2012 13:03
Over the past ten or so years, New York City has emerged as a haven for indie rock bands with Brooklyn at its epicenter. Most of the praise has been given to Brooklyn, and with good reason: it’s a hipster Mecca. There are way too many new bands to list that have emerged from the borough that it would be a waste of time to list them all, but from ...

Artist of the Week: Miike Snow

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Tuesday, 30 October 2012 17:36
Electro-dance-pop is all the rage right now. Unless you haven’t been paying attention, the music that’s been huge abroad and had fans here in the States albeit underground, has finally exploded into the mainstream psyche of music listeners. You can credit that to the growth of satellite radio or young people’s desire to eschew conscious music for...

Album Review: RNDM, Acts

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As we mentioned with both Ultraísta and Smoke & Jackal, for whatever reason, supergroups are in. Combining forces this time around are Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament, singer/songwriter Joseph Arthur and drummer Richard Stuverud to form the new band RNDM. The group may be pronounced as “random,” but their origins shouldn’t be as surprising as th...
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