The Cloud Room

Drawing on the cool but insistent sounds of '80s post-punk acts such as Echo & the Bunnymen, Joy Division, and Bauhaus in a style not unlike such contemporaries as Interpol, the Kaiser Chiefs, and Bloc Party, Brooklyn's the Cloud Room became a buzz band when their superb single "Hey Now Now" became a sensation on college radio and music blogs in both America and the U.K. The Cloud Room is led by guitarist and singer J, who was born in San Jose, CA, and came to New York City to work in independent filmmaking, having been promised a job working on a Hal Hartley project (it was g...