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Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri No Hana

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Orchestre Poly-Rhythmo - Echos Hypnotiques

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Whatever Brains - Trim-Jeans and/or Gross Urge Plus Ten CD-R

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Gene Watson - A Taste of the Truth

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Franco & le TPOK Jazz - Francophonic Volume 2

seen/heard   °  listen °  buy

Amerie - In Love & War

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Nirvana - Live at Reading

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Shakira - She Wolf

seen/heard   °  listen   ° preorder

Magneta Lane - Gambling with God

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Various Artists - Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis' Kind of Blue

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The xx - xx

seen/heard   °  listen °  preorder

Future of the Left - Travels With Myself And Another

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Rokia Traoré - Tchamantché

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Emmy the Great - First Love

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Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca

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Shiina Ringo - Superficial Gossip

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Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zamen Kuri No Hana

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We Made Up Your Mind for You

posted 04/13/2006

Cloud Cult’s on tour.  They don’t do this often.  Or, at least, often enough.  Show up and encourage them, won’t you?  If you live in Chicago, you can see them TONIGHT.  I envy you, Chicago, what with your easy access to quality midwestern bands.


New York gets three gigs, starting with their headlining slot at Gothamist’s  Movable Hype 7.0 at the Knitting Factory on 4/17 (also on the bill:  Stars of Track and Field (a Central Village pick), Vegan favorite Land of Talk, and a late set from The Slack Republic).  Tickets are perfectly priced – $8 – and you can buy yours at the Knitting Factory box office or through Ticketweb.


It’s not hype, though:  The band was responsible for what I thought was inarguably the best album of 2005.  They played two great shows during CMJ week, and I’ve mentioned them over and over again.  I’d planned a sprawling, serious entry about them – but for now, here’s something short and sweet:


Cloud Cult - Waitress(mp3)


The world’s most perfect one-minute-forty-four second song, it’s off an earlier CD called They Live on the Sun.  Buy it here... or, better yet, from the band when you go see them:


Cloud Cult Shows:




Listen to more at their myspace.


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1. mjrc left...
04/13/2006 3:30 pm

thanks for the new song--how many shows are you going to see?


2. J____ left...

As many as I can, of course.


3. mjrc left...
04/14/2006 8:32 am

Of course!


4. jerry left...
04/14/2006 9:31 am

I'm partial to "breakfast with my shadow" myself.