Best New Bands » Cloud Nothings http://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Mixtape: Yuck, Cloud Nothings, The Silver Palms And More http://www.bestnewbands.com/mixtapes/mixtape-yuck-cloud-nothings-the-silver-palms-and-more/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/mixtapes/mixtape-yuck-cloud-nothings-the-silver-palms-and-more/#comments Sun, 09 Feb 2014 10:29:25 +0000 New York – A little lighter on the tunes this time around. In live reviews, Zach caught Sera Cahoone’s Portland show and was affected by her engaging duality, communicated through “slow picked chords that seemed to impossibly mourn and celebrate life’s complexities.” Caroline is our latest writer to witness and be charmed by the lovely Lucius,

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  1. Cloud Nothings: Turn it On and Turn it Up Photo by Mark Baldi The first full length from 19-year-old Dylan Baldi from Cleveland, OH under the name Cloud Nothings is what helped me wake up for a few weeks straight. The scratchy fuzzy lo-fi power pop full of messy...
  2. Cloud Nothings and Indian Rebound at Mercury Lounge Last night NYC was total rain city. My feet were thoroughly soaked before I even got to the train to head to Mercury Lounge, but I’d already missed Cloud Nothings several times in the past few months, so I was...
  3. Cloud Nothings, BRAIDS, & Toro y Moi at the Doug Fir, Portland cloud nothings Friday night’s show at the Doug Fir Lounge in South East Portland was all about variety, as three bands with completely different sounds took the stage one after another. First on was Cloud Nothings, who appeared promptly at...
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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/more-beautiful-noise-with-madison/feed/ 0 Brad Oberhofer is a CMJ Machine and a Musical Force to Be Reckoned With http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/brad-oberhofer-is-a-cmj-machine-and-a-musical-force-to-be-reckoned-with/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/brad-oberhofer-is-a-cmj-machine-and-a-musical-force-to-be-reckoned-with/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:00:00 +0000 Brad Oberhofer, the eponymous member and mastermind of the indie pop/rock force that is Oberhofer, is twenty years old. This young gun has already made a splash at CMJ and on the Blogosphere; plus, his music is really, really good. We chatted last week just before he departed on his latest tour, and he spilled

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