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Forgot to bang the bones: Cloud Cult’s quick Northwestern swing started a couple days ago. Apologies if you’re reading this in Fargo and Missoula. But here’s the remainder of their schedule:
Cloud Cult Shows:
- Friday 5/12 - Seattle, WA: Crocodile Café (also playing live on KEXP radio)
- Saturday 5/13 - Portland, OR: Doug Fir Lounge
- Sunday 5/14 - Eugene, OR: Sam Bond's
- Tuesday 5/16 - San Francisco, CA Make Out Room w/Hijack the Disco, Radius, The Ebb and Flow 21+ $8
- Wednesday 5/17 - Salt Lake City, UT: Kilby Court
- Thursday 5/18 - Denver, CO: Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom
- Friday 5/19 - Omaha, NE: O'Leaver's w/ The Amatures
- Saturday 5/20 - Minneapolis, MN: Varsity Theater w/ Dosh
If you’re anywhere in the vicinity of a Cloud Cult gig, you owe it to yourself to go (though expect a more modest set-up than what's in the above promo photo, which was taken during a hometown performance). If you need convincing, at the bottom of this entry there are links to all(?) the blog-blog-blog after their recent swing through NYC. For these NW dates they’ve apparently got two painters in tow; Cult leader Craig Minowa sent out an e-mail suggesting there might be a sculptor joining them on that final night in Minneapolis (and also mentioned upcoming shows in July with Low, Go! Team, and The Flaming Lips).
The band’s also playing a live set at KEXP tomorrow, May 12th, at 5PM Pacific/8PM Eastern.
[UPDATE: The show's not yet in the station's Performance Archive, but you can stream it by going here and setting it to 5/12, 5pm; Cloud Cult comes on after a couple songs from Outkast and The Rakes. There are additional Cloud Cult KEXP performances here (9/15/05) and here (6/24/05)]
You should, by now, own the best album that came out last year. And here's their myspace.
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KEXP, by the way, recently started its own blog. As Yeti noted, it looks to be the hub of the musical blogoversarama.
Inspired, I thought I should mention how much I enjoy WFMU’s Beware of the Blog.
Cloud Cult Rules!
I was at the minneapolis show.
and I shot video!
check it out here: