About

Consequence of Sound is a New York and Chicago based, worldly influenced online music publication that seeks to cover the music world as it has never been covered before. Since its inception, CoS has reported on all of music’s biggest news, introduced the world to great new artists, and broken the lineups for some of the country’s biggest music festivals.

CoS has been featured in/on New York Magazine, MTV.com, USA Today, Filter Magazine, Chicago-Sun Times, The Huffington Post, Time Out Chicago, Austin360.com, Glide Magazine, Comedy Central Insider, BBC.co.uk, LA Weekly, Brooklyn Vegan, Buzznet, WNEW.com, Knoxville News Sentinel, The Rich Roffman Show, The Big Talker w/ Michael A. Smerconish (CBS Radio), Culture Bully, The Daily Swarm, The Rad Report, Zimbio, LAist, Stereogum, Metromix Los Angeles, Caustic Truths! and Buzzgrinder.com.

Staff:

Founder/Publisher:
Alex Young

Editor-in-Chief:
Michael Roffman

Head of Business Development:
Matt Friedman

Managing Editor:
Jay Ziegler

Executive Editor
Matt Melis

Deputy Editor:
Sarah Luczko

Associate Editor:
Becca James

Assistant to the Editor and Publisher:
Andy Keil

Art Director:
Cap Blackard

Senior Staff Writers:
E.N. May
David Buchanan
Allison Franks
Russell Michniak
Dan Caffrey
Elizabeth Grobel
Drew Litowitz

Staff Writers:
Adam Kivel
Anthony Balderrama
Tim Nordberg
Chris DeSalvo
Justin Gerber
Luke Johnson
Laina Dawes
Will Hines
Jessica Dean
Jason Petros

Contributing Writers:
Michael Denslow
Bruce Matlock
Jesper Persson
Phillip Roffman
Lloyd Poast
Joe Stahl
Gillian Rosheuvel
Megan Ritt

News Writers:
Charles Poladian
Rose Martelli
Timothy Berger
Carlos Detres

Contributing Photographers:
Art Pena
Shantel Mitchell
Cara Patricia

Web Editor:
Brennan Dunn

If you’d like to send us an mp3, CD, or any piece of music news and/or rumors you think we should know about, please drop us an email, or head over to our Contact page. Not only do we accept music submissions, we encourage them! (See our “Listen” category).

For advertising information, please read this page.

We are always looking for more staff members. If interested, read this page for more details.

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