Gerard Cosloy
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Gerard Cosloy (b. 1964) ran Homestead Records in the 1980s; DJ'd at WFMU; played in the group Air Traffic Controllers, and later became part owner of Matador Records, the New York independent label founded by Chris Lombardi.
Cosloy wrote and edited Conflict during the '80's and early '90's. It was as writer and editor for Conflict that Mr. Cosloy first heard the band Pavement after Spiral Stairs (Scott Kannberg) sent the zine the band's first studio work 'Slay Tracks'.
Gerard was raised in a northern suburb of Boston. While he was still in high school, he started "Conflict" a photocopied fanzine of underground and alternative rock and art. He did some DJing at WZBC, Boston College's radio station, as well. He had a record label called Conflict Records, which issued two compilations called "Bands that Could be God I and II" He also put out a few singles. Gerard also promoted shows in the Boston area, one of them being hardcore band Deep Wound that evolved into Dinosaur Jr.
In 1984 he was approached by the managment of Dutch East India Co., a Long Island based record distributor, to manage an independent record label previously started by Sam Berger called Homestead. He moved to New York for the position. Homestead put out many of the mid-80s defining alt-rock records, from Big Black, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., My Dad Is Dead and many others. He continued to publish Conflict during this time.
Matador Records became Cosloy's next label to work with. Matador Records was started in 1989 by Homestead Records employee Chris Lombardi and Cosloy joined into the partnership in 1990.
For a time Cosloy lived in London working with Matador's UK and US operations. Since Autumn 2004, he's lived in Austin, Texas, continuing his partnership with Lombardi.
He has also started the experimental record label Parallelism and the label 12XU.
Cosloy is also a musician and is a member of Air Traffic Controllers as well as working ith GG Allin for a short period. From 1992-1996, he fronted the New York quartet Envelope, while briefly filling in as bassist for the Dustdevils during Mark Ibold's tenure in Pavement.
Cosloy also has a daily blog called Can't Stop the Bleeding. [1]
