Tonight:
Cloud Nothings @ Outland.
Pitchfork Festival Announces Dates, Initial Lineup
The Pitchfork Music Festival will return to Chicago’s Union Park July 13-15. And we’re proud to announce the lineup for this year’s festival. Vampire Weekend, Feist, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hot Chip, AraabMUZIK, A$AP Rocky, the Field, Liturgy, Kendrick Lamar, Grimes, Cloud Nothings, Tim Hecker, and Willis Earl Beal will all join us in Union Park! And that’s only the beginning— over 30 additional acts will be announced.
Tickets go on sale Friday, March 9 at 12 pm Central Time at the Pitchfork Music Festival website. Individual day tickets will cost $45, with a limited number of three-day passes available for $110 each.
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Cloud Nothings | ”Wasted Days” | Attack On Memory
If I heard this song when I was 14, I think my brain would have melted. Those drums! Holy shit, the drums. I’ve nearly bruised my thumbs trying to tap along.
I have to say, this new Cloud Nothings record turned out much, much better than I expected. As I mentioned previously, I was less than thrilled with lead single “No Future/No Past,” but luckily, that has turned out to be my least favorite track on the album by a long shot. Attack On Memory is certainly way more aggressive than the band’s previous output, as this nine(!) minute track illustrates. But even though it’s bigger and angrier (not to mention significantly higher-fi), it’s still clearly the same band playing (almost) the same hooks. They’re just bigger and angrier hooks.
So a record that I was actually fearing turned out to be something great: it makes me feel like a pissed off 14 year old again.
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Cloud Nothings | ”Stay Useless” | Attack On Memory
Here’s the second single from the upcoming Cloud Nothings album, and I like it infinitely more than the first single.
(Source: donewaiting.com)
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Cloud Nothings | ”No Future/No Past” | Attack on Memory
New Cloud Nothings…
Not really sure how I feel about this one. I wrote this whole post, then came back and realized, yes, in fact, I do know how I feel about this one.
The P4k post I grabbed this track from refers to the band as “Cleveland pop-punk outfit Cloud Nothings,” but can you call a band a pop-punk outfit when they totally replace the pop and the punk with dour psych-grunge? Obviously you want bands you like to evolve and grow as artists, but not usually at the expense of what made them appealing in the first place. I saw them at The Basement back in January, and it was fun. Really fun. And I saw them a few weeks ago at the Ohio Film + Music Festival, and it was depressing. [Which is maybe why this song has me more disappointed than I usually am by an advance single I’m not really feeling…that OF+MF set was entirely new material (as in, they didn’t play even one song I recognized), and it was pretty much all this mopey.]
TL;DR: Living in Cleveland kills you on the inside.
Ohio Film + Music Festival ⇢
Running from October 6-9, 2011, the Ohio Film Music Festival is a curated, four-day event highlighting Ohio-native filmmakers and musicians. Curated by OFMF founders Eric Mahoney and Scott Johnson, the fest will showcase a diverse array of creative talent Ohio has produced past, present, and future—from auteur filmmaker Jim Jarmusch to acclaimed producer/DJ/musician RJD2 and internationally-recognized bands like Heartless Bastards and New Bomb Turks. Looking forward, the OFMF plans to develop into an annual event and platform for exhibiting and developing future work from Ohio artists.
I should have mentioned this before now, but the Ohio Film + Music Festival is taking place here in Columbus this weekend. The Arena Grand Theater will be screening a selection of films, documentaries, and shorts from Ohio-born/Ohio-based filmmakers; and the festival has three nights of music from some killer Ohio musicians occurring at a couple different venues in town.
Last night’s set took place at The Summit and featured Cincinnati’s Buffalo Killers, along with Nick Tolford and Co., Main Street Gospel, and Eye, all of Columbus.
Tonight’s show will take place at Skully’s. Columbus punks New Bomb Turks, Cincinnati ex-pats Heartless Bastards, Cleveland’s Cloud Nothings, and Dayton/Cincinnati duo R. Ring (featuring The Breeders’ Kelley Deal) are all slated to perform.
Skully’s will also host Saturday’s show, with Columbus native RJD2, RJ’s new “psychedelic soul” duo Icebird, and Columbus rappers Blueprint and Envelope all taking the stage.
For more info, head to ofmfest.com. For the film screening schedule, click here. For the music schedule, click here.
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