Influences and Bands we like: Iggy Pop and The Stooges, Nirvana, Mudhoney, The Pixies, Frank Black, The Melvins, Local H, Soundgarden(and any other project Chris Cornell has done), The Sonics, 7 Year Bitch, Foo Fighters, Muddy Waters, Sleater Kinney, The Toadies, Beck, The Who, Flipper, Jack Endino, The Beatles, Sonic Youth, Bikini Kill, Failure, Year of the Rabbit, Jello Biafra, The Dead Kennedys(back when Jello was in the band and they didn't suck), Syd Barrett, Skin Yard, The Velvet Underground, Leadbelly, Fluffy, The Sex Pistols, The Beach Boys, Tom Waits, Ween, TAD, The White Stripes, L7, Le Tigre, The Vines, Queens of the Stone Age, Mr. Bungle, The Dead Boys, Alice in Chains, 13th Floor Elevators, Alice Cooper, The Slits, Elliot Smith, Frank Zappa, Pavement
Sounds Like
Your new favorite band / Grand Masters and Supreme Rulers of all that is Rock.
Unleashed in late spring, 2004, New Jersey’s Black Clouds play bracing rock music characterized by soaring melodies, dynamic arrangements and superior song craft. Hard, loud and impossibly catchy, the band has won a loyal following by lighting up clubs on both sides of the Hudson River.
For fans of classic hard rock and alternative, the Black Clouds aim to bring danger, fun and deep lyricism back to rock and roll. To music lovers, nationwide, who have eagerly awaited the return of danceable, unpretentious rock, the Black Clouds have arrived.
With a self-financed, self-produced album released in January of 2008, mixed and mastered by Jack Endino, known best for his work with Nirvana, Soundgarden and Mudhoney, these four motivated young musicians have set their sights very high. They worked ceaselessly to develop a sound that balances the creativity of indie rock with the professional acumen required to achieve mainstream success. -Patrick Veil
Live at the Mohawk Place After Thursday at the Square (with The Gin Blossoms) Buffalo, NY 07-24-08
1. Gentlemen Don’t Tell 2. Damn the Architecture 3. Bottle and Rope 4. This is Not an Exit 5. Dissolution Soundtrack 6. Her Idle Hands 7. Transmission 8. Sinner in Sunshine 9. So Lovely 10. Mapping the Minefields
