Cloud Cult, Exit Clov, Mason Proper @ Middle East downstairs Nicole Atkins & The Sea, Salt & Samovar, Gregory & The Hawk @ TT the Bear's Kings of Leon @ Orpheum Full Time Dreamers, Coalmine Canary, The Susan Constant @ Abbey Lounge Tea Leaf Green with New Madrid Faults @ Paradise CHERRY S/T @ Harper's Ferry KID:NAP:KIN with [...]
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If the contrast podcast sounds different this week, it's because we were to pick "songs that have sound effects" in them. You can check it out right here. The first song I thought of, naturally, was "Money" by Pink Floyd. After that I was stumped! It wasn't as easy to search for songs with sound effects in them as it usually is to search for songs with certain words in the title or som...
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We've got seven video sessions up over at The LaundroMatinee now! More coming this week and every week following! Today we share Minneapolis, Minnesota's Cloud Cult . This session is also from our early days in the 91.7 WEEM Pendelton Heights High School radio station...classroom-style once again! Cloud Cult - Everybody Here Is A Cloud (Live on MOKB/SIRIUS Blog Radio at the 91.7 WE...
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We all have song lists, right? I mean, It is difficult to imagine A MOGger without song lists. Indeed, folks have rhapsodized & agonized & asked us to analyze various song lists made for specific purposes. ie; The break-up mix,Songs to clean house by, Angry music, happy music and many others.I posted about a special list I have. It exists mostly in my heart and head.This list consists of son...
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Craig Minowa and Cloud Cult performing Chain Reaction live in-studio at The Current 89.3...Perfect for a Sunday morning and for listening to whilst you read a few words of catch up from ZR before I head off to yet another airport... I hope so.....I have been in Phoenix (visiting a dear friend who is also a camera buff)) for the last few days and its been wonderful... for the first time in 6 wee...
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...so I finally got to see my new favorite band live and they lived up to every expectation. Fantastic live show. Highly recommended. In celebration of their triumphant return to the San Francisco Bay Area, I thought I'd post some music from their brand new album "Feel Good Ghosts"... a fantastic follow-up to their brilliant "The Meaning of 8" album. (My pick for album of the year... along with...
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When I made my Top 10 (actually 11) list for 2007 I left two albums which I only discovered in January of this year. The first was Menomena, which I posted on earlier... The other was the brilliant band from Minnesota, Cloud Cult.When I first heard this album, it made almost every other album I was listening to seem trivial.The quick back story: Cloud Cult is basically Craig Minowa, musician an...
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h2. Cloud Cult - Pretty Voice_**Cloud Cult's**_ origins go back to the early '90s when **Craig Minowa**, a student studying environmental science, started essentially, a solo project where he made music from sounds collected from non-musical related objects. Cloud Cult was really just a side project for Minowa at the time who would go on to become an environmental activist and eventually own and r
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a video for "chemicals collide" from 'meaning of 8'. the video gives you bits of a live show...it is quite an experience!Cloud Cult's new release, coming out on April 8th, following up to last year's "Meaning of 8", moves past death into the afterlife where Craig Minowa and company spend most of the album. The lyrics, though never exactly morbid int he past, speak of of angels and ghosts and c...
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A new 100 minute documentary called No One Said It Would Be Easy will be released on April 21 telling the unique journey of Minneapolis band, Cloud Cult.The video is said to have interviews with the band and fans, artwork of Scott West and never-before-seen tour footage, concerts and recording sessions, all building the story of Cloud Cult from day one to the here-and-now.Minneapolis fans can s...
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Well, I'll skip the long introduction and get right to the music. Being from the Seattle area I thought I would start off with something related. While Cloud Cult is definitely not a Seattle band this cover of Mr. Tambourine Man is an in studio performance at "90.3 KEXP":http://www.kexp.org , which IMHO, is one of the best radio stations around. Check them out at kexp.org, they stream uncom...
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Yesterday, I told you about a new film chronicling the history and beginnings of Cloud Cult, called No One Said It Would Be Easy.Today, I've got the official trailer for the video. I'll just say there's some interesting imagery involved in this trailer, which shouldn't come as a surprise after listening to Cloud Cult.No One Said It Would Be Easy - TrailerThe film is being released on April 21 o...
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In the words of the great Lou Holtz, "Everyday someone does something great. Today make that someone be you."
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*summary* An Andrew Birdian pop lament that's over too soon - much like the tragically short life of the lead singer's son that inspired it.from Cloud Cult's latest album.
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although i have a month and three days until the official release of cloud cult's new 'feel good ghosts (teapartying through tornadoes)' - that would make the release April 8th, for all you calendar-challenged people out there - i have been listening to a track posted on their website for download - 'everybody here is a cloud'.it sounds like craig minowa is once again, using his late son Cayden...
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