Birdcloud / Mishka Shubaly

Mishka Shubaly

After receiving an expensive MFA from Columbia University, Mishka Shubaly promptly quit writing to play music. He lived out of a Toyota minivan for a year, touring nonstop, and has shared the stage with artists like The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Decemberists among others. A narrative published in NYPress about his romance with an opiate marked his return to writing. His three Kindle Singles for Amazon have all been bestsellers. He writes true stories about drink, drugs, disasters, desire, deception and their aftermath. His work has been praised for its grit, humor, fearlessness and heart. 'The Long Run,' his mini-memoir detailing his transformation from alcoholic drug abuser to sober ultrarunner is one of the best-selling Kindle Singles to date.Mishka Shubaly lives in Brooklyn where he writes music and plays bass for Freshkills. He is at work on a new solo record of his original songs and a full-length memoir. He does not own a dog but he thinks about them often.

Birdcloud

Banned from YouTube, booed at America's Got Talent, and lauded for their irreverence by a global cult following, Birdcloud's music has been referred to as the ravenous id of today’s commercial country sound. Nashville natives Jasmin Kaset and Makenzie Green have spent years touring dive bars and lavish theaters across America. Birdcloud is currently celebrating the release of "Singles Only," their greatest hits on double cum-colored vinyl.

"Much of what Birdcloud does is reactionary to what country music has

become — those dirt roads and the trucks that drive 'em — but also to

their experience growing up in the South: the obsessive religious

indoctrination, the caged racism... Those types of songs —

true-to-life, with a healthy dose of humor — are actually a

longstanding country tradition." - ROLLING STONE  "Raunchy Country:

Inside the Genre's History of Comedy and Irreverence."  Apr. 2016

“Jasmin Kaset and Makenzie Green of the Nashville duo Birdcloud are

completely fucked up. That said, we hope that they show up to every

fucking party we ever throw for as long as we live. They’re bound to

say and do things that are inconceivable and all kinds of wrong. They

will get loud and stand-offish. They would drive a car into the pool,

if we had one, they would get naked and they wouldn’t likely do

something that they’d always be remembered for. Odds are the nudity

and the car in the pool wouldn’t even rank in the top five most

memorable moments of the night, when it comes to what the two members

of Birdcloud are capable of.” -DAYTROTTER

"The mystery that animates Birdcloud’s best music is a dialectic of

identity, a cruel compassion... What it does do is give the loneliness

of an anonymous woman a couple of absurd moments to strut and fret in

your mind before disappearing once again into oblivion. Historically,

this is what country music has always done best." -VICE Noisey

"Southern Hells: Redemption and Ridicule in Birdcloud's America."

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