70: Ian Cohen (Writer / Music Critic): Music Writing Favors the Young, Hungry, and Naive
The First Ever Podcast
Jeremy Bolm
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
This week Jeremy interviews music writer / critic Ian Cohen
On this episode we talk about Ian's life as a dietician for eating disorders, going to school in Kentucky, moving to San Diego, working at a talent agency, signing comedians, first albums he connected with, soundtracks, first album reviews, radio indie rock, enjoying bad music when you're young, first paid gig, going into writing full time, what inspires him to review an album, snark Vs critique, negative reviews, the Pitchfork rating system, year end lists, and so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is sponsored by Discovered Magazine. |
| 0:03.9 | Discovered is an international print counterculture magazine encompassing the best of music, |
| 0:08.1 | art, skateboarding, and anything with a punk ethos. |
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| 0:27.3 | summing up the best artist |
| 0:29.0 | to break through this year. |
| 0:30.8 | On the covers, |
| 0:31.9 | one step closer, |
| 0:33.5 | see-you space cowboy, |
| 0:35.1 | and Chubby in the Gang. |
| 0:36.7 | One more time, |
| 0:37.4 | that's store. |
| 0:38.0 | D-S-C-V-R-D.com. |
| 0:57.0 | First ever |
| 0:59.0 | Podcast Welcome to the first ever podcast. I am your host, Jeremy Bollm. If this happens to be your first time here, this is a show where I interview artists of all kinds about the first experiences in their art form that led them to where they are today. This is the last |
| 1:31.8 | episode of the year. This is coming out on the 29th, and I thought it'd be awesome to get a writer |
| 1:35.8 | slash music critic to come on and sort of talk about the year in music and a ton of other stuff. |
| 1:41.0 | So I got none other than Ian Cohen. Ian has been writing for Pitchfork since 2007. |
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