Cloud Nothings is founder Dylan Baldi with vision, voice, guitar and command of American indie history, put into service for a sound that started in a lonely bedroom but now (on new album Here and Nowhere Else) comes out shredding. This is punk re-invented for a different and maybe more complex personality, the kind of thing that lit up the college charts back when colleges kept a whole freaky ecosystem of bands alive. Cloud Nothings have that woe-is-me-at-velocity vibe of Jawbreaker, the ragged-at-the-edges charm of punk laureates the Replacements and (as discussed in several interviews, rightly and righteously) more than a little of the Wipers’ perpetual-motion guitar riffs and outside-looking-in sentiment. If this adds up to the greatest band SST or Homestead never saw, well, what can we say but better late than never?
Thu., July 10, 8 p.m., 2014
