Friday, April 25: Aggrolites at Beat Kitchen Cloud Cult w/ Mason Proper at Schubas - Eco warriors fight the good fight through haunting orchestration and deceptively simple songwriting. MP3: Cloud Cult - The Ghost Inside Our House The Acorn at the Empty Bottle - Sunshine + Earth + water = acorns. Throw a few tight harmonies into that recipe and you'll end up this namesake group. MP3: The Acorn - Blankets Ted Ansani Project w/......

Minneapolis art-rock maximists (if you can have minimalists, you can totally have maximists) Cloud Cult appear courtesy of both tragedy and the unending hopefulness of finding one’s center. Mastermind Craig Minowa lost his infant son in 2002 and has used his band as an outlet for his tireless quest to figure out how the hell you keep going after such a loss, but this is no mopey singer-songwriter fair. That quest for grounding has lead......

The addition of soul crushing songwriter Bon Iver makes tomorrow's TNK show a must see for Chicagoist. Taking over headlining duties from Cloud Cult are reborn local retro rockers The Redwalls, and we're ok with that. The northern suburban foursome have been "the Chicago band that coulda shoulda woulda" since signing to Capitol Records in 2003, but all of that precocious promise never quite came to fruition on the major label. Dropped last year amidst......