Chris Cohen

A busy and versatile figure on the indie rock scene, multi-instrumentalist Chris Cohen is best known as a guitarist with Deerhoof and the leader of his own group, the Curtains, though he's also worked with a wealth of other bands. Cohen was born and raised in Southern California in 1975, where his father worked in the music business and his mother was an actress. At the age of three, he began bashing out rhythms on a toy drum kit, and in time he learned to play guitar, bass, and keyboards in addition to percussion, learning how to overdub himself into a full band on a four-tra...