Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Cloud Nothings’ “Life Without Sound”

For the past nine years, Cleveland native Dylan Baldi has been working out his lo-fi power-pop angst as Cloud Nothings.

After a long period of self-released soundscapes and studio leftovers, Guy Blakeslee returned last fall with his first official Entrance

Every 10 years, another generation discovers the Creation, via periodic reissues such as this. Beginning as another ’60s beat group

After a 25-year career that began with a Mercury Prize shortlisting and a Brit Award nod for best new band,

Scott H. Biram has got kind of a corny shtick on paper: the old one-man band, all grizzly and gruff,

Though some things change, others stay the same. Across 22 years and multiple incarnations, Douglas McCombs (also of Tortoise, Eleventh

"Indie rock” has become such an amorphous and broad category that it’s nearly meaningless. But you could do worse than

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania