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Music: Scene Point Blank's Favorites: The Year So Far (July 2023)
Feature — July 6, 2023
How's 2023 been for you, so far? Good? Average? Pretty rough? Don't worry – the kind folks at SPB have got you. We've crunched the numbers, broken down the boundaries, and—more importantly—listened to all of the music released in 2023 thus far. Alright, most of the music. Armed with this …
One Question Interviews / What's That Noise?: Stress Positions
Feature — January 2, 2024
Jono Giralt (Stress Positions – drums) SPB: Walk us through your drum kit and how you arrived at your sizes, etc. Giralt: I play on a Tama Starrclassic. All Bubinga shells. 12”, 18”, and 24”. Charcoal grey, I guess? They look nice. I’ve been playing the Ludwig raw …
Music / Year End 2023: Scene Point Blank's Favorites: Year End (2023)
Feature — January 9, 2024
Another year is over. You yawn wearily as January beckons, trying to remember what your job is and clinging onto those hastily-made new year's resolutions. Maybe one of them was to listen to more new music this year? Better slow down there, buddy. Before you start diving into 2024, …
Music / Year End 2023: 2023: A Year In Review
Feature — January 9, 2024
As we've done every year since 2004 (except, for some reason, in 2017), SPB's hard-working staffers have beavered away around the clock to deliver you a set of lists to help you review the year just finished. Not a list of our favorite albums—you can peruse that here—but …
Music: The Guest List: Kepi Ghoulie
Feature — February 12, 2024
Hello, this is Kepi Ghoulie (formerly of the Groovie Ghoulies) and I have been asked to submit a number of Anti-Valentine songs, since I have been recording an annual audio Valentine for at least the last 15 years! With this year's Valentine release we come full circle with the …
One Question Interviews / What's That Noise?: Faulty Cognitions
Feature — April 1, 2024
Chris Mason (Faulty Cognitions) SPB: Was the mic’ing of your kit for the recording of Somehow, Here We Are fairly straight forward, or were there some techniques or experiments used to capture the sound? Mason: We didn't do anything too fancy. I do remember that we didn't mic …
One Question Interviews: The Anti-Queens
Feature — April 3, 2024
The Anti-Queens SPB: What song would you like played at your funeral? Valerie Knox: “Evil Side” by The Dirty Nil is deeply meaningful to me, marking a pivotal time of change in my life, and a connection with someone who has become very important to me. Its unconventional …
Music / The Set List: Guest List: 10 Songs That Are Core To DeeCracks
Feature — April 8, 2024
Twenty years is a long time – much longer than many relationships last. So it’s an accomplishment when a band can stick together through life and social changes. DeeCracks, a poppy punk band from Austria, threw a two-day festival last year and released a 28-track retrospective to mark their …
One Question Interviews: The Wesleys
Feature — April 18, 2024
Willy (The Wesleys) SPB: What is the best show you’ve seen so far this year?: Willy: Got to see a lot of cool shows this year so far, but I think my favorite one was seeing Shadow Show from Detroit playing with Tilden at NYC TVEYES. It …
Music / The Set List: Guest List: Panopticon's definitive crust / hardcore / punk classics
Feature — April 24, 2024
Panopticon may be more widely known as a "metal" band - I use that term loosely because Panopticon is a lot more than the black metal base genre it derives from - yet founder Austin Lunn finds his inspiration from many different genres, punk and hardcore being one aspect of …
Music: Scene Point Blank's Favorites: The Year So Far (July 2024)
Feature — July 17, 2024
It's been a year of intense, crazy events. Assassination attempts on former presidents. European governments overthrown in waves of unexpected left-wing landslides. Tenacious D imploding. Hold on, that was just the past few weeks. Yep, we're midway through this thing called 2024 and it only promises to get more …
Music: 20 Years Of Scene Point Blank: Collections & Reflections
Feature — July 17, 2024
Two decades of independent music coverage All the way back in 2003, a scrappy new webzine was born. It was a different era: guitar music was undergoing something of a revolution—or so it felt at the time—and the internet was a burgeoning place for music fans to discover …
One Question Interviews: 18 Slashes
Feature — August 19, 2024
18 Slashes SPB: Was there an album or song (or, more generally, a “sound”) that inspired you to begin 18 Slashes? 18 Slashes: That's a very good question. There is a raft of albums that inspire the sound but also there is generally a yearning for a specific …
Music / The Set List: Guest List: Massive Nightmares – Top 5 Records by A Wilhelm Scream
Feature — September 5, 2024
Formed about one year ago, Massive Nightmares started life first as a trio and now a quartet. The band members (Tom Ciesluk, Myke Doyle, Alex Heinz, and Pat Lavalle) have played in a variety of bands previously, including Great Lakes USA, No Trigger, Save Ends, and David New Joy. That …
Regular Columns: Guest Column: Greg Jacobs – The 5 Sketchiest Venues I’ve Ever Been To
Feature — September 27, 2024
Greg Jacobs managed the bands Big DRILL Car, Drive Like Jehu, Rocket from the Crypt, and Supernova and has worked at the record labels Enigma, CRUZ, SST, Cargo, Capitol (for one day), and Trust. He currently manages two of the aforementioned bands (even though they’re inactive), freelances for one of …
One Question Interviews: Espi Kvlt
Feature — October 22, 2024
Espi Kvlt SPB: What is your favorite Disney soundtrack? Espi Kvlt: My favorite Disney soundtrack is The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The songs on it are all so beautiful with powerful orchestral backing and incredible vocal parts ranging from standard Disney narrative tracks to operatic, spiritual numbers. …
Music / Fest 22: FEST LIBS 22
Feature — October 22, 2024
We've rolled out an extra-special feature for this year's Fest: that's right, it's FEST LIBS. You've played it before, but not like this – fill in our interactive form here, then sit back and read your customised FEST LIBS. The results may surprise you. But before you …
Regular Columns: Guest Column: Jon Snodgrass
Feature — November 6, 2024
Jon Snodgrass has been in the music industry and punk scene for the better part of 30 years, playing with bands such as Drag the River, Armchair Martian, Scorpios, and more. He currently performs most frequently under the name Snodgrass + Buddies, where he plays with a backing band of …
Music / History 101: Red Scare Industries - History 101
Feature — December 10, 2024
Hey folks, Toby here, and the SPB team asked me to provide some insights about some stuff from our catalog now that Red Scare is (you gotta be shittin’ me?!) twenty years old. Specifically a “memory or modern take” on some past releases, and they picked some doozies, so …
