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Press resources: alancohenexperience.com/press
Alan Cohen Experience on CNN! Press on Eat the Peace "This is piano-laced and hippie-friendly southern driven rock and roll that also parallels Phish at their happiest moments. It’s happy-go-lucky storytelling about every free-loving individualist’s favorite subjects: peace, love, train rides, and truck drivers. The lava lamp torch should instantly be passed down to Mr. Cohen." -Fensepost Featured Ranger Stranger -KEXP Featured Ranger Stranger -Largehearted Boy "Cohen always entertains - and in doing so, he provides a refreshing foil to snobby musicians and an often sterile, uncaring record industry. This guy's the real deal." -Ryan's Smashing Life Artist of the Day -The Athens Blur Blogazine "Combine bounce, groove, and a touch of swagger and you might be able to come up with a dance that sums up the bouncy, groovy, swagger-y songs of the Alan Cohen Experience, whose latest EP, Eat the Peace is six tracks’ worth of joyful tuneage." -Knocks From the Underground "For the uninitiated, Alan Cohen Experience (ACE) has a reputation for recording some pretty far out and offbeat stuff, venturing into Frank Zappa territory, but sounding refreshingly unique to my ears." -Bill's Music Forum "Alan's song-writing and use of musical sounds improves with each release this being his third EP in three years." -JP's Music Blog Press on Alan Cohen Experience EP "...an eclectic mix of funk, folk and psychedelia with intricate harmonies and textured acoustics." -Relix "Listening to the new EP from the Alan Cohen Experience, I find my reaction to the album can be summed up with one word. 'Fun.' ..." -Ryan's Smashing Life "Quirky, slightly folky, a little funky and a great deal of fun - this seventies tinged collection of songs, spear-headed by the wonderful “Elephant” have bags of personality and are joyful to listen to." -Subba-Cultcha "...its music and lyrics will have you listening to this album on repeat." -CT Record-Journal "An accomplished record...Cohen is to be applauded for the immediacy he forces into the first release by this name." -PopMatters "This is one I'd recommend for fans of Frank Zappa, Cake, and other pioneers of eclectic pop. If you are looking for something out of the ordinary but still catchy and expertly performed, look no further than Alan Cohen Experience." -Bill's Music Forum "..a delight." -Fensepost "...listeners will be in a real pickle trying to decide on their favorite part of the Alan Cohen Experience on this solid set." -Shemspeed "...one of the coolest albums I've run across recently." -Teruah - Jewish Music "Funky, melodic, orchestrated." -mel.opho.be "The Alan Cohen Experience is a great album and proves that just because someone isn't commercially endorsed doesn't mean their music isn't going to be phenomenal. Rating: 9/10" -Colby-Sawyer Courier "Alan Cohen Experience is a 'Band on the Verge'" -Neufutur Magazine "Cohen comes out of the deeply conceptual into the wonderfully strange." -Wildy's World "Is being called a male Kimya Dawson a compliment? I think so." -You Are So Relevant Video of the Day -DeadJournalist.com "New Video from The Alan Cohen Experience, with Elephants!" -Pop Culture Will Eat Itself Sunday Spotlight -Mainstream Isn't So Bad Featured tracks from Alan Cohen Experience EP... -Largehearted Boy here and here -KEXP -100% of Nothing -Salad Days Music -gitpop -Instrumental Analysis -Too Much Rock Podcast #96 -Popwreckoning -Mastan Music Hour Podcast #64 Press on The Obama Groove YouTube Clip of the Week -CNN, "This Week in Politics" 10/25/2008 *See the segment here "This is one of the better... pro-Obama ditties out there" -guardian.co.uk Featured essay, song, and video -Largehearted Boy October Audience Award Winner -Boston Open Screen "Guaranteed laughs..." -PopWreckoning "I have had his song stuck in my head for the past 6 days." -Deep Thoughts, by 4 M Ladies Featured video -BarelyPolitical.com (the Obama Girl folks) -Fensepost "Obama Megamix" by DJ Paul V. featuring song -danceblogga -Revelaciones Chucaras -silence is a rhythm too -Mashup Town -Down With Tyranny -J. Lowe -Sheena Beaston -Audioporn Central -Sex 4 Ears -Culture Bully -Consequence of Sound -Jonathan Hawkings -Rapidshare -DJ KMJN Featured song -Filthy Hippy Speak Press on Revolutions "Imagine a beat poet inspired by the offbeat instrumentation of They Might Be Giants with the informativeness of a School House Rock! song and you’ll start to imagine what Alan Cohen has in store for you…" -Mainstream isn’t So Bad…Is It? "Alan Cohen is a strange fellow. Equal parts beat poet and folk musician, and on ‘Revolution’, his debut album, he manages to combine both, and in doing so, makes folk music ‘cool’ (yeah, I know the songs are great and easy to sing along with and always make you smile) even though everyone secretly kind of likes folk music…well, most people do. Uh, some people do. Fine, it’s just me that likes folk music. But it’s never been what you would normally call cool. Until now, as Alan Cohen (why he bothers with both ‘The’ and ‘Experience’ is beyond me, as it’s just one dude, so surely he should just use his name right?), breathes new life into the genre. Imagine a cool version of a late sixties Paul Simon dragged kicking and screaming into 21st century, and that’s The Alan Cohen Experience in nutshell. Kinda cool huh? Well, I think he is…So there." -Subba-Cultcha "It’s a fun ride… and well worth the listen..." -Pop Culture Will Eat Itself "If Neil Young was your summer camp counselor, this is what he’d sound like." -Shemspeed "I wonder if Alan Cohen and Wesley Willis were distant cousins?!" -Rock Sellout Featured tracks from Revolutions... -Largehearted Boy -Too Much Rock Podcast #93 -Stillpoint Feature Articles THE ALAN COHEN EXPERIENCE: AN INTERVIEW "The other day when I signed onto MySpace, there was a friend request from someone named The Alan Cohen Experience. I quickly accepted and found out that Alan Cohen is a man with a basement studio and a wealth of stories to tell. He was kind enough to grant me a phone interview. We talked about the music industry, revolutionary thought, Ned Ludd, and of course Cohen’s formidable kazoo prowess. Alan Cohen lives and works in Boston…" -Your Takeoff Hat Anti-Folk "Alan Cohen, a graduate of High School South, Class of 2001, recently released “Revolutions,” a solo album recorded a few years ago. A member of Family Junction Band, he lives in Boston, where he owns and operates an audio and video production company, and focuses on his music. Cohen, who used acoustic guitars and an upright bass, did the string arrangements and performances." -West Windsor & Plainsboro News Portrait of the Artist | Alan Cohen "Today, Cohen cites Duke Ellington as one of his main inspirations, due to Ellington’s approach to music and composing. 'He didn’t limit himself. All his songs are all over the spectrum; he let his creative juices flow,' Cohen said." In his own music, Cohen tries to use a similar approach, aiming to create something unique each time he plays, whether alone or with his band. He said, 'A lot of bands get caught up in the mentality of ‘their sound.’ It’s very limiting. We’re doing the opposite of that, because if you don’t set limitations, you can go anywhere..." -The Tufts Daily No Capella Here "...there is no lack of more bizarre tracks. Take, for example, Alan Cohen’s remarkable “Osiko,” which begins with a Japanese mantra before suddenly stopping and launching into a chorus of hums. It’s the kind of wild experiment that shouldn’t work but somehow, inexplicably, does, making it all the more impressive…" -The Tufts Daily Jumbo Audio Project Provides Eclectic Taste "…finally, the CD concludes with an ultimately uplifting and heartening tune by Alan Cohen. You can’t help but like “Locked Up (The Cookies Song)” with lyrics like “There’s too much hate in the world, but not too much cookies…” -The Tufts Daily |