MINQ VAADKA (pseudonym for NYU alum Adam Cochran) is a punk-burlesque performance artist on a crusade to bring epic theatricality back to both the look and sound of rock music, drawing heavily on influences that run the gamut from the gender-bending glitter rock of David Bowie, Queen and Lou Reed to the darkly cabaretic sounds of Tom Waits and Diamanda Galás. From garage-punk like The White Stripes and The Sex Pistols to the musical theater and burlesque of Kurt Weill, Kander & Ebb and Django Reinhardt. Sound like a tall order? It is. But Minq somehow manages, like a mad perfumer, to combine notes of each into an originally explosive fragrance. Last year, he crashed onto the NYC circuit with his debut album The Plastic Masquerade, this glowing review from The Original Hipster, a sold-out debut at Joe's Pub (that was featured in New York Magazine's online Valentine's Day Guide 2010), gigs at Galapagos Art Space, CSV and 3LD, the staging of a dance piece by director Sanaz Ghajarrahimi to a live peformance of the record called Orpheus and The Plastic Masquerade and a nomination (as Adam Cochran) for a Drama Desk Award for his junk-folk score to the world premiere of NAATCO and Theater Mitu's A Play On War. On March 24, 2011 came his second release: a half-hour-long EP called Minq Vaadka Will Take Your Elektro-Küsse in Queens, Please, including six new orignal songs and a cover of a favorite Tom Waits tune. On August 26th, he unleashed a brand new cabaret theater piece with all-new, original music called Minq Vaadka's Narcischism: Un Cabaret d'Adieu, directed by Chantel Pascente and produced by Patrick Terry and Te Ilum Theatre & Arts at the Robert Moss Theatre. Look out for the accompanying album/DVD of the same name.