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New fan-made Cloud music video and it’s a doozy!!!

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0:00 – 6:56 Karen Constance (Smack Music 7) 6:57 – 11:30 Konrad Kamm - Untitled 11:31 - 16:34 Lea Bertucci – Faces in the Shadows 16:35 – 21:22 Witch Beam – Cosmic Heart 21:23 - 25:24 Downer Canada – Untitled 25:25 – 30:...

The homie, Dane Patterson, asked me (Glass Frog) to jam out a track for this awesome mix. Posted by a Danish label, Arbitrary. Lots of other jammers and weirdos on here. Sounds cool. A real pleasure to be a part of, thanks again Dane!

Check out more of Dane’s art here: http://danepatterson.com/

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Errores | ViceVersa

Lorena of ALONE has had a number of her photos featured in a sweet spanish-language magazine based out of New York (viceversa-mag.com). It’s a series I’ve seen out in LA that shows the first shots, all partly over exposed, from various rolls of film. Beautiful! You may recognize a few from the covers of our compilations: EASY and PIE....

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TAPESTRY comin’ at you with "A premature summer jammmmm”. mmMMMmm enjoy

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My Friend Tyler

Story About Music #5 I met my friend Tyler in the autumn of 2010 after we moved into the same dorm room. He was already a musician by then, making pop music that mixed in a variety of other genres: i

Tyler Taormina out front of his apartment in Los Angeles, 2014.

story about music #5

I met my friend Tyler in the autumn of 2010 after we moved into the same dorm room. He was already a musician by then, making pop music that mixed in a variety of other genres: indie rock, world beat, classical, jazz, shoegaze, ambient-anything was up for grabs, really.

But those things have never been the central focus of the music Tyler makes under the name Cloud. At its core, Cloud is a project about friendship, ego death, and one persons’ attempts to hold onto the memories that shape him.

Episode 6 begins with a call I made to Tyler in the weeks before his first vinyl release (on a real record label!) only to find out he wasn’t as excited as I’d thought he would be.

This is a story about my friend Tyler and me.

Keep reading

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Close friend of the PRR crew, Brendan Mattox has been producing an amazing podcast called “Stories About Music” featuring stories and interviews with Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie), Trouble Books, Dirty Beaches, Bluetile Lounge and others to come. 

BUT THIS episode is particularly beautiful. It’s about our very own CLOUD (Tyler Taormina) and includes interviews with other PRR artists: ALONE (Lorena Alvarado) and SONOAK (Greg Salwen). Brendan does justice to the story of Cloud in relation to growing up in Long Island, surrounded by friends that would later establish the Practice Room Records collective (voila!) and his transition into the larger music world upon getting signed (with which Brendan served an interesting role..)

Listen to this half hour podcast to get a better look at Cloud, PRR, and the work of Brendan.

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Just poppin in to add one more thing here: The leaders in tape-listening technology have created a very precise year-end list of the Top Tapes of TwenTy 15. Dropping in at #120, holla at ja boi. Glass Frog - The Greeblie Band. pretty dope, much respect to those dudes. long time listener and fan of the show. also, if you haven’t heard it they play a lil cut from and discuss my other tape (released at the same time) on episode #69 (tehehehehe) listen over at www.tabsout.com

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My friend Ryan hit me up to submit a track for this comp he was putting together. Don’t know much about it other than it appears to be a DJ collective called “Eventually” from London. He put together a really nice mix, great to throw on for some background music. And part of the track I submitted is featured hidden in the mix. If you follow the track-list thru the whole mix you can guess which track is me, or else you’ll just have to wait for a possible more “official” release of the track in the future...

(Glass Frog)

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Final song from the new Tapestry album! Should be up for download later...

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So close... Song number 9...

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Bike Anywhere

Last year, Kenny and Greg biked across America, and Kenny drew a comic every day about it. Now he's back, WITH A VENGENCE. Re-drawing some old comics, making new ones, plopping cartoon Kenny or Greg or other friends into biking situations, and doing some D.I.Y. bike instructable stuff. New comics every monday on the site www.bikeanywhere.com and other drawings and stuff on his instagram and stuff. Check it out!

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MELTING CASSATT - New Cloud single out now, full length album to follow

Cloud has returned with a new single featured here on Stereogum to promote the upcoming album, Zen Summer, which will be released on vinyl via Paper Trail Records.  You can pre-order the vinyl there!

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OH BOY. Our very own Tyler Taormina (Cloud) has produced three amazing episodes of Suburban Legends (SuburbanLegends.tv) which is currently a self-produced web-series about a 12-year old Poll Flowerpot, who finds mysterious absurdity everywhere she looks. Check it out!!!

They've even developed a production company called Best Life, which is similar in collective style to Practice Room Records. Cool!!! Ahh!

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Do you miss Alone like we do? PRR's Lorena Alvarado also is an amazing photographer. If you like pictures of dreams, click here.

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Benjamin Shaw's single You & Me with covers by Cloud, Jack Hayter, and Broken Shoulder!!! 

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When Tyler Taormina isn't massaging your ears with Cloud, he's making this awesome new webseries out in LA called "Suburban Legends". Check out Episode 1: Plumberman, here!

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Redstone Reaper album teaser... COOL