Gerard Cosloy, who had befriended Albini through writing for Matter and gone on to work at Homestead, negotiated an unorthodox deal for the band: Big Black merely licensed their recordings to Homestead for specific lengths of time, rather than the label retaining the rights to the recordings as was typical.

Gerard Cosloy recalls that " It looked like someone had plugged Steve into the amp [...] he was pretty scary to watch onstage.

Mascis took Cosloy up on his offer to release an album and Dinosaur recorded their debut album for $ 500 at a home studio in the woods outside Northampton, Massachusetts.

Sonic Youth mentioned SST often in interviews and in music writer Michael Azerrad's estimation, " seemed to be actively campaigning to get signed to the indie powerhouse "; in turn, Sonic Youth was instrumental in getting SST to sign Dinosaur Jr. Gerard Cosloy, owner of Dinosaur Jr's previous label Homestead Records, said, " SST was the label everyone wanted to be on.

" Gerard Cosloy was excited by the completed album, but was devastated when Mascis told him the band was going to release it on SST Records.

Homestead Records head Gerard Cosloy heard the cassette release of The Freed Man and released it as a full-length album on Homestead in 1989.

The Frogs were hoping that Homestead would re-release their first album, but Cosloy wanted to release an LP of the group's improvised home recordings, originally recorded on 4-track reel-to-reel with two microphones, which dealt with over-the-top homo-eroticism.

Cosloy went on to sign many of the notable acts.

Patrick Amory, Matador's longtime label manager, is currently label President and a partner of Lombardi and Cosloy.

Mascis was reluctant to sign a two-album deal with Homestead, but Cosloy felt betrayed ; Cosloy said, " There was no way I couldn't take it personally.

Gerald Cosloy, head of Homestead Records, summarised the band's music: " It was its own bizarre hybrid ... It wasn't exactly pop, it wasn't exactly punk rock — it was completely its own thing ".

The following year, Lombardi was joined by former Homestead Records manager Gerard Cosloy, and the two of them have run it together since.

The second event ended up bringing the group to public attention: Jay Tiller gave a tape of the Frogs ' improvised home recordings to his friend Steve Albini, and the tape eventually made its way to Gerard Cosloy, then head of Homestead Records.

When Berger left to work with Midnight Records, he recommended 18 year old Gerard Cosloy, who he knew from Boston and who published a fanzine that Homestead distributed.

Musicians Alan Wilder of Depeche Mode and Recoil, Nick Midson ( formerly of Threshold ), actress Daniela Denby-Ashe, Ian Gillan of Deep Purple, Mick Jones of punk band The Clash, the highly influential Big Audio Dynamite and latterly Carbon / Silicon, Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols, Robert Smith of The Cure, Pete Doherty, of The Libertines and Babyshambles, Dave Kerr-Clemenson ( Edison Lighthouse / White Plains ) as well as Matador Records founder Gerard Cosloy, are all fans of the club.

Then in 1996, Capitol Records purchased a 49 percent stake in Matador, but Lombardi and Cosloy bought it back in 1999.

Phair interviews, among others, Gerard Cosloy and Chris Lombardi of Matador Records, indie producer Steve Albini, Ira Glass of NPR's This American Life, John Henderson, Brad Wood, John Cusack ( who founded the Chicago avant-garde theater group New Crime Productions ) and Urge Overkill.

" Chris Lombardi and Gerald Cosloy of Matador Records also first heard of Pavement after Kannberg sent a copy of Slay Tracks to their zine, Conflict.

Mascis ' college friend Gerard Cosloy introduced him to bands like Dream Syndicate, which Mascis in turn showed to Barlow.

Cosloy approached the band and offered to release an album.

Gerard Cosloy, co-president of Matador, stated that " We usually don't sign people we haven't met, or heard other records by, or seen as performers.

" Box Elder ", an ironic song about someone wanting to move to Box Elder, Montana, was considered by Gerald Cosloy to be an example of Malkmus's " honest, direct, and simplistic " lyrical style, and features greater influence from pop music than the rest of the EP.

Cosloy was succeeded by Ken Katkin and later by Steven Joerg.

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The real GDP growth rate for 2011 was expected at 3. 7 % but had dropped to. 1 %.

The Ministry of the Environment reported that the lake's water level had dropped by fifty centimeters in 1993.

During the Fourth Test news broke that prominent England players had agreed to take part in a " rebel tour " of South Africa the following winter ; three of them ( Tim Robinson, Neil Foster and John Emburey ) were playing in the match, and were subsequently dropped from the England side.

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In the episode " Steamroller " it is said that Todd had dropped out of school two years before.

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