Tod Ashley

Tod Ashley (born November 30, 1965), better known by the stage name Tod A, is an American singer, songwriter, and bass guitarist. He founded the rock music groups Cop Shoot Cop and Firewater.

Ashley also spent time while in art school in a band called Shithäus with Jon Spencer, later of The Blues Explosion.

Ashley was living in Bushwick, Brooklyn when he decided that he wanted to travel the world. In 2005, putting his musical career on hiatus, Tod spent most of the year traveling the Far East, including Calcutta, India and Bangkok, Thailand. He has published a written account of his travels in a blog, which he calls Postcards From the Other Side of the World. He lived in Bali for three years until 2010.

In 2019, Ashley published his first novel, Banging the Monkey, based on his experiences abroad.

Discography Cop Shoot Cop YearNameRef1990 Consumer Revolt 1991 White Noise 1993 Ask Questions Later 1994 Release

Firewater YearNameRef1996 Get Off the Cross, We Need the Wood for the Fire 1998 The Ponzi Scheme 2001 Psychopharmacology 2003 The Man on the Burning Tightrope 2004 Songs We Should Have Written 2008 The Golden Hour 2012 International Orange! Other appearances YearNameArtistRef1985 Crush: Live Crush 84–85 Shithaus 1994 Forces You Don't Understand Lubricated Goat 1995 Gash Foetus 1996 Null/Void Foetus 1997 Red Expendables Red Expendables 2002 Obtanium Skeleton Key 2010 Combat Disco Casbah Figli di Madre Ignota 2010 Gecekondu Baba Zula