It’s a busy week for local music. Both Cloud Cult’s and Tapes ‘N Tapes‘ newest albums come out today, and each band will be in town this week promoting it.

First, though, Tapes ‘N Tapes have a little gig to play Wednesday night in New York: “The Late Show With Conan O’Brien.” Don’t miss it (11:35 p.m. on NBC). Then the boys return home for their CD-release show Thursday at First Avenue. If you don’t see my story on the new album, “Walk It Off,” click here. Will Hermes, who lived in Minneapolis for a minute, gave it a favorable if somewhat half-hearted review in Rolling Stone, read it here.

Cloud Cult perform today (Tue) at the Electric Fetus to promote their latest, “Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes).” The in-store is at 7 p.m., and it’s free and open to all ages — whereas their show April 26 at First Ave is 18-and-up. After hearing the album a few times and catching the band down at SXSW, I’m impressed by how Cloud Cult just seems to be on a very steady roll. This one’s as good as the last one, which was slightly better than the last one, which was… With a second string player in the group now, the strings seem to play an even more prominent role, which is great by me.

If you pick up/download either of these albums, let us know what you think of them.

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