Hiram-Maxim

Cleveland doomgaze band Hiram-Maxim are back with a new record, Colder, out Friday, but you can check out “Alpha,” the otherworldly offering from their forthcoming release, now.

It’s hardly a news flash — particularly if you read Neill Jameson’s reports from his time as a record store clerk — but physical music is either in its death throes or experiencing a painful rebirth. Whether it’s A or B depends on who is involved in the conversation. Aqualamb Records is banking on the…