Some of you may know that the Minnesota collective Cloud Cult has two painters as part of the band. During live performances, the two (one of which is singer Craig Minowa’s wife, Connie) set up an easel on stage and create a new painting from scratch. The band then auctions it off to an audience member at the end of the show. In fact, we found out firsthand that their painting isn’t confined to playing in front of a paying crowd, when they painted this owl for us during a session at SXSW two years ago. (Figuring it difficult to transport back to Cincinnati, we donated it to EAR Studios with their blessing.)

So, we were happily surprised to receive a package from the band last week containing a painting from the cardboard sleeve of The Meaning of 8 CD for studio. The note enclosed said:

Hi WOXY.com Folks,

Just thought we’d tell you all how much we appreciate what you do and what you’ve done for us! We’ve been happy to spread the word about WOXY! Thanks for working with us and please accept this “Meaning of 8” limited edition print as a thank you from us. Hope to see you all sometime soon.

-Cloud Cult

Check out this video taken by our friends at Soapbox Media recently that gives you some “inside the studio” footage of the DJ’s and the station.

Enjoy!

It has been way too long since we did an Inside The Studio post here on The Futurist. As you probably know by now, when a band comes by for a lounge performance, they sign huge boards that are in the studio. For the entire year of 2007, and a chunk of 2006 also, they have been signing a large piece of dryway actually, and it is really full at this point. Actually, if anyone wants to tote a piece of drywall to our studio, we could really use a new piece, seriously.

Anyway, here are some photos of the most recent sigs. Click on the thumbnail to see the photos full size.

The Big Sleep, Coyote Bones etc.

Ben Kweller

Yo La Tengo

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Pays tribute to the 1990 World Series Champions.

Frank Black does a double marker signature, he said his new band name was “Shwarma”, and wrote that also.

Bad Veins make their presence known.

Lots of good ones here, see what you can find.

More goodies in this photo.

Check out our previous Inside The Studio posts here.

Another inside the studio post to get to today, showcasing some more wall signatures from bands that have made their way into the lounge.

A Long Winters self portrait!

The National leave their mark…..

Editors do a simple and quick tag…..

Birdmonster gets a little more artistic.

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Today we dive into another post to give you an inside look at the WOXY.com studios. One of my favorite things about the studio is the large pieces of drywall that bands made their mark on. It’s a tradition for us here to have bands sign or draw or really write whatever before they leave, and we now have three sheets of signatures that are all almost full. The story behind the drywall sheets is that bands would sign the actual walls when the station was in Oxford, OH and since our current space in downtown Cincinnati is not something we own, we brought pieces of drywall for the signatures instead. Today we focus on the sheet for sessions during the dates of October 2004 through September 2005.

Matt Beringer of The National Leaves a fitting Alligator

Neko Case really liked Buster

Not sure who drew this guy, but J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. signed his ass

The Fiery Furnaces self portrait

Joseph Arthur does a signature painting

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We have a look “Inside The WOXY.com Studio” for you today here on The Futurist. Kari Wethington from Cin Weekly dropped by last week and recorded a quick video with Mike and Shiv. I liked the idea so much that you can plan on seeing more “inside” coverage in the future here as well through photos.

View the full video here.