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Brad Cohan

@thebradcohan.bsky.social

Music writer. Bylines: Bandcamp Daily, SPIN, TIDAL, The Wire, Chicago Reader, Treble, JazzTimes, DownBeat and more. Once called Lydia Lunch’s favorite music journalist.

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Latest posts by thebradcohan.bsky.social on Bluesky

Check it out stoked that I contributed some words to @treblezine.bsky.social best songs of 2025 list with glowing blurbs for Black Eyes, Circuit Des Yeux, bar italia, Tunde Adebimpe & FACS … dig into the whole list !

03.12.2025 18:16 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Flea - A Plea (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Flea Flea - A Plea (Official Music Video)

I dig the Flea song but can i get the all instrumental version

youtu.be/TmyjzvQv5bA?...

03.12.2025 02:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This was a proper country once.

02.12.2025 21:39 — 👍 111    🔁 21    💬 2    📌 1

What Steve said! 👇Reg is a killer guitarist too

27.11.2025 02:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Recently watched it on Tubi! Great film

24.11.2025 15:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fun fact - Udo Kier and Cannibal Corpse were both in ‘Ace Ventura Pet Detective’ RIP Udo 💔

24.11.2025 14:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Who would look weirdest standing and playing guitar … Ribot, Orcutt or Halvorson

23.11.2025 18:30 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0
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Never Understood William and Jim Reid, brothers and founding members of The Jesus and Mary Chain—a band that bridged the gap between the punk explosion and the emergenc...

This book rules and one of the best revelations is William Reid watches ‘Seinfeld’

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/willi...

23.11.2025 17:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Tubi can fuck all the way off with the ICE Barbie commercials while I watch movies

21.11.2025 13:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Ginn Black Flag NY Times article has me looking back on that time I interviewed the great Chuck Dukowski when FLAG played NYC … FLAG is the real Black Flag … my VV editor at the time wanted me to get a hold of Ginn to get ‘his side’ … no thx I’m team FLAG

www.villagevoice.com/flags-chuck-...

19.11.2025 20:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Last thing this world needed was a profile of the current kidz bop version of Black Flag and an interview with Greg Ginn in the New York Times 🤮

19.11.2025 19:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I’ve been informed someone is impersonating me on X Twitter … I’ve finally ‘made it’ as a music writer ! 🤣

14.11.2025 19:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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WE FINALLY GET TO FIND OUT WHO KILLED LAURA PALMER TONITE. HELL YES.

10.11.2025 13:13 — 👍 71    🔁 20    💬 5    📌 3

Steve Shelley needs to up his beard game

04.11.2025 20:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🙏

03.11.2025 19:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thx 🙏 for sharing !

30.10.2025 00:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hiya! Honored that @treblezine.bsky.social has let me write lots of words about a bunch of great experimental records released over the last several months or so! Do check it out … tons of awesome stuff here to dig into …

28.10.2025 22:35 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The Lemonheads' 'Love Chant' is the unexpected feel-good comeback of the year

www.treblezine.com/t...

28.10.2025 04:01 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Hey I wrote this! The new lemonheads record and Evan dando’s memoir ‘rumors of my demise’ are both awesome and so worth listening to and reading!

28.10.2025 22:32 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Taking Umbrage, by Yowie 7 track album

If you dig totally bat shit crazy, mind numbing precision, guitar riffs every which way done in the loosest most elastic way possible this album is for you .. Yowie ‘taking umbrage’ on @skingraftrecords.bsky.social one my albums of the year

yowie.bandcamp.com/album/taking...

26.10.2025 17:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Seeing an Unsane poster in the background of a law & order ep and now I’m listening to Unsane … I wonder if Lenny briscoe was a fan

26.10.2025 17:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I second this! Great record that explores real world horrors thru a bright synth-pop lens … catchy as heck stuff

17.10.2025 16:48 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

All systems GO!

15.10.2025 12:24 — 👍 243    🔁 34    💬 20    📌 11

😮

15.10.2025 12:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

‘This 80s era NYC no wave group featured Arto Lindsay on skronk guitar
(Ps it didn’t happen! Of course REM made an appearance)

14.10.2025 23:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Tonight jeopardy had ‘3 letter music groups’ category and I can’t be the only person here hoping for ‘what is DNA’

14.10.2025 23:13 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Much better!

14.10.2025 14:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Subb O)))

14.10.2025 13:17 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Black Eyes interview - "This isn't a nostalgia trip" | Treble Reunited and releasing their first new album in two decades, the D.C. band discuss their next chapter

For @treblezine.bsky.social I chatted with reformed posthardcore greats Black Eyes who have a great new record out today on @dischord.com , first in 20 years, called ‘Hostile Design’ and it rules .. a must grip

www.treblezine.com/black-eyes-i...

10.10.2025 20:22 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Grant Hartwig Stats, Age, Position, Height, Weight, Fantasy & News Grant Hartwig Stats, Age, Position, Height, Weight, Fantasy & News

I’ve wondered a similar thing if this Mets relief pitcher named Grant Hartwig knows about Husker Du… I’ll get to the bottom of it!

www.milb.com/player/grant...

10.10.2025 01:38 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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