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Cloud Cult at Knitting Factory Next Monday!/CMJetc.
posted 10/31/2006
(photo from Elisabeths Daisy's' Flickr) Good news for anyone with a jam-packed CMJ schedule, or anyone otherwise worried about getting into what promises to be a packed show at the Merc Friday night: Cloud Cult has added a last-minute show on the main stage of the Knitting Factory next Monday, November 6th. Slowlands is opening. Tickets are $10 and are here.
Along with all the old faves, Craig & Co. should have at least a couple new ditties with them. Here’s a not-completed-version of a new song, courtesy of KEXP:
No, I’m not sure if they’ll have the painter(s) with them, this time.
If you’re in town for the festival and haven’t seen Cloud Cult before, you must. They put out the best record of 2005 – an honest-to-goodness top-to-bottom record – and, y’know, there still hasn’t been a better one released in 2006. I’ve mentioned ‘em plenty before; give a listen:
- CC’s myspace
- Ryspace (good luck, Ryan) has mp3s from their last show at the Knitting Factory,
- More at Hype Machine.
- Obligatory YouTubeness:
Car Crash/Moving to Canada:
Clip-Clop/Training Wheels:
They’ll be at the Mercury Lounge Friday night at 10; advance tix aren’t being sold for that show. If you’re going for Cadence Weapon, stay late; if you’re going for Tokyo Police Club or that Strokes guy, come early. (And if you’re going for Cloud Cult, come early just in case.)
They’re in the middle of a short East Coast swing; here are the rest of the dates:
- 11/1 – Philadelphia, PA: World Café Life (tix)
- 11/2 – Washington D.C.: DC9
- 11/3 – NYC – Mercury Lounge (CMJ)
- 11/4 – Middleton, CT – Wesleyan University
- 11/5 – Boston, MA – Great Scott (tix)
- 11/6 – NYC – Knitting Factory Main Stage (tix)
- 11/7 – Pittsburgh, PA – Club Café (tix)
- 11/8 – Detroit, MI – The Belmont
- 11/9 – Columbus, OH – Surly Girly
- 11/10 – Madison, WI – Stage Door
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(photos from Sandwich!'s Flckr)
Another band I’ve been flag-waving fer – O’Death (myspace)– is playing, of all places, the CMJ Showcase Stage at Lincoln Center. 2pm, November 1st.
That’s... weird. I’m not sure that music’s meant for daylight hours. Or Lincoln Center, for that matter.
If you want to see the beast in its proper environment, you’ll join the moshy hoedown in the basement of The Delancey Friday night ‘round 10 in the PM. Recently dubbed the "Best Appalachian Hardcore Band in NYC" by what now passes for the Village Voice, the band's roundly loved by all. All but you. You: Start loving them, too.
Funny that this, the band most likely to play 153 CMJ gigs, has exactly two. No rest for the wicked, though: They’re heading down to The Fire in Philly in-between.
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I’m not feeling up for CMJ, and even at this late hour am not sure what/how much I’m going to do. Maybe I’ll stay home and read. Those Vegan-run shows are a tempting set of FREE throwdowns, though:
Gee, think anyone’ll come?
Come early, maybe: Sure Juror (myspace) is playing their first show in a while, but it’s my first chance to see them since I started really digging their record (still available for free download). That’s noonish, 11/1, at Pianos.
Ear Farm and ProductShop have their shows, too. Brooklyn? Wha?
YES? YOU THERE IN THE BACK?