Stuck Inside a Cloud: Archive

Two Shows

Upcoming shows in DC worth checking out: Story/Stereo #7 with John Davis and authors Aryn Kyle and Allison Benis White, 9/3 @ The Writer’s Center The Caribbean, 9/17 @ U St Music Hall

Aug 29th

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Restart

Sorry gang; we’ve been a bit inactive in the past few months. Day jobs, career changes, movie going, school, concert going, personal stuff…. I could name hundreds of reasons for not putting out new music. Despite all these distractions, the band is planning to start writing some new tunes and refining a few old ones in the not-so-distant future. To say the least, we are very...

Aug 29th

Mar 19th

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Oct 17th

Oct 16th

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Oct 6th

Story/Stereo No. 2

Tonight: Bluebrain, Srikanth Reddy, Alexander Chee. http://storystereo.com/

Oct 2nd

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Oct 2nd

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It's about time!

We started brainstorming video ideas. Not sure it will rival MJ’s Thriller, but we will do our best. Speaking of music videos, what are some of your favs?

Sep 26th

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Frischkorn

Susanne Frischkorn, the poet we had the honer performing with on Friday night, wrote sweet words about our band and her experiences at Story/Stereo. Her poetry reading was beautiful. She exuded confidence while still maintaining a softness in her voice. After reading a bit from Lit Windowpain, she delved into her more recent poem—giving the audience a sneak peak into her upcoming book of...

Sep 25th

Watch

Hillary hearts Roofwalkers. An instrumental version of our song Chin Music is used by the Dept of State for the Virtual Student Foreign Service. Among other things, the VSFS helps promote environmental and conservation curriculum planning and gender equality around the globe. Next stop, Obama’s ipod.

Sep 22nd

Sep 19th

Sep 18th

To the Quick

The first track on our new album is featured at the Washington City Paper: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=37792

Sep 17th

Sep 16th

Sep 15th

Guest Blogging @ Vinyl District

In the run-up to our upcoming CD release this Friday at Story/Stereo, we’ll be blogging all week about our favorite songs and records over at one of our favorite blogs, Vinyl District. Come join us: http://thevinyldistrict.com/

Sep 14th

Sep 9th

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Sep 6th

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Sep 1st

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New Merle Travis release/reissue

One other thing I meant to mention… A combo release was just put out of two sweet Merle Travis records—1950’s “Merle Travis Guitar,” and 1960’s “Walkin’ the Strings.” Both these have been out of print for long stretches of time, and now can both be had together on one disc which includes a heap of bonus tracks. The disc isn’t on...

Aug 31st

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Guitar tuning...yawn

I’ve been meaning to post a few more rambles dealing with guitar tuning after I did a little piece on guitar detuning. Tuning a guitar properly can actually be a somewhat complicated thing. And the more I’ve played music the more sensitive I feel my ear is to anything being slightly off key. Many of us are of course familiar with a few means of tuning, electronic tuners being the...

Aug 31st

Aug 25th

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Many Thanks

Thanks to all of you who came out to the show last night. We had a great time opening for Mark and Rose. This was our first time being up on stage in over a year and it felt long overdue. Hopefully you all will join us again next month at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD on the 18th for our official CD release show. Also, for all of you who noticed the comment section of our blog...

Aug 21st

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Tonight at the Black Cat w/ Vandaveer

Mark and I talk music at the Washington Post We’ll be openning up for the Vandaveer CD release show tonight at the Black Cat. Details here: www.blackcatdc.com

Aug 20th

From the Vaults

Tear Down the Tents, a song from our Seven Nights EP, is featured on a great compilation of music from the Dublin label, Indiecater Records. Worth a listen and download when you have a chance. Enjoying the Sofia Talvik song as I type… http://www.indiecater.com/indiecater-volume-four/

Aug 17th

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Aug 8th

Soon soon soon

We are playing a few DC shows in the next month. More on that very soon.

Aug 2nd

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Aug 1st

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Jul 23rd

Jul 19th

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Jul 7th

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Jun 30th

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Jun 28th

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Jun 27th

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Watch

Beck recently began a strange project where he has decided to cover entire albums in a 24 hour window. I’m not sure how impressed I am with the cover of “waiting for my man” but the cover of “sunday morning” is ace. I’m guessing there will be a few misses in this batch of tune, but when recording an entire album’s worth of songs in a day, one would...

Jun 27th

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Jun 25th

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Jun 25th

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Getting the Lowdown

A few years ago Roofwalkers was asked to play a show and our bassist, Raj, was unable to make it. The rest of us were into doing the show, and so decided to go ahead as a trio. There are plenty of bands out there who are great at doing things on the fly—different players drift in and out, arrangements change every night, pyrotechnics displays come and go. But for me, and our band, that...

Jun 23rd

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That Toddling Town

this goes out to our fan club in chicago. which admittedly right now consists of 1 possibly 2 fans, but man are they rabid. i’m wearing pads and a helmet next time. this past weekend the weather was 71 degrees with a light breeze and i found myself lost and wandering through chicago. a welcome break from east coast squalor, there’s nothing like this sturdy city by the lake in the...

Jun 20th

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Soft Power →

Our friend and musical coconspirator, TJ, is in a new band! Check them out; you won’t be disappointed.

Jun 18th

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1989 to 2009

I’m halfway through reading Black Postcards, a memoir by Dean Wareham. I’ve been a fan of Luna since I heard my older brother playing “California (all the way)” but only recently started listening to Galaxie 500 albums in full. What intrigues me about BP is the unique perspective one gets from being a front man in a somewhat famous band in the late 80s. Sending demo...

Jun 11th

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In the Dream Life →

The Clean are one of my favorite bands in the world, and I can’t wait for thier new album. I just never can get over how a few simple chords can sound so perfect in the right hands. The backing vocals kinda remind me of Sleepy Jackson. Wow.

Jun 11th

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Jun 1st

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ToneMatrix - Sinewave Synth →

I can’t stop! A lot of moods: Steve Reich, mbira music, bad techno, etc. Very intuitive. For really trippy effect, open the link in multiple tabs and overlay patterns. —Ben

May 31st

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May 30th

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May 23rd