Gerard Cosloy

Gerard Cosloy (born 1964) is an American music industry executive.

Biography

Cosloy was raised in Wayland, Massachusetts, a western suburb of Boston. While he was in high school, he became involved in the local hardcore punk scene, put together many punk shows, and started Conflict, a mimeographed fanzine of underground and alternative rock and art. He continued to write and edit the fanzine during the '80s and early '90s.

He 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.

In 1984 he was approached by the management of Dutch East India Trading 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, The Membranes and many others. He continued to publish Conflict during this time.