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Music: Coming in 2012: Scene Point Blank Anticipates
Feature — February 18, 2012
With 2011 now firmly behind us and entrenched in the archives, it's time to look forward to what's to come in 2012. Sure, the year is already 12% complete, but there's a lot to come. We enjoy making lists, so the staff compiled our most anticipated released still …
Regular Columns: Guest Column: Blag Dahlia - Leave Your Phone At Home
Feature — May 6, 2012
Blag Dahlia is the singer for the Dwarves and host of RadioLikeYouWant.com, a weekly podcast. He is the author of two novels: NINA and Armed to the Teeth With Lipstick. Leave Your Phone At Home I inherited Michael Jackson’s hyperbaric sleep chamber, so I myself …
Regular Columns: Guest Column: Blag Dahlia - Destroy the iPod
Feature — June 22, 2012
When I was in high school a new product came out that everyone had to have called the Walkman, a portable cassette player. It allowed you to have music wherever you went, but you would only hear what you had already decided you wanted to hear. This eventually gave …
Music: Scene Point Blank's Favorites: The Year So Far (July 2012)
Feature — December 16, 2012
In time-honoured tradition, here's our list of the best records released this year so far, plus some tasty extras: best EPs, albums we missed last year, best hip-hop albums and mixtapes, and of course, the records we're anticipating for the upcoming half of the year. Read on for more …
Music / The Set List: Swans: our favorite songs and records
Feature — August 26, 2012
SPB's top 5 favourite Swans records (in alphabetical order) 1 Filth The first Swans full length appeared in 1983 and signified a huge shift in the post-punk landscape. The evocative artwork that speaks in deep and dirty atmospheres and Gira's ability to draw you in whilst …
Regular Columns: Guest Column: Blag Dahlia - Prohibition
Feature — August 26, 2012
You’re drunk and you stink and you love me. Must you tell me with your frothy lips half an inch from my nose, though? It smells like you ate a bag of shit dipped in tequila. And because you’re drunk I have to counteract the kindness and sincerity of …
Regular Columns: Guest Column: Amy Oden - (Sub)Culture Shock
Feature — September 19, 2012
After working in national television for almost eight years, Amy completed her first film in 2011, and her Master of Arts in 2012. She is currently working on her second documentary feature while teaching at the University of Guam. Somehow my life has taken me in a direction …
Music: Theologian Album Stream
Feature — September 19, 2012
Scene Point Blank is proud to team up with Handmade Birds records to present an exclusive stream of Theologian's just-released EP, Finding Comfort In Overwhelming Negativity. More info from the label below. Lee M. Bartow is a revered pillar of the modern noise movement. He turned …
Music: Wide Angles Album Stream
Feature — October 21, 2012
SPB is excited to bring you an exclusive free album stream of Chicago punk band Wide Angles, signed to Dead Broke Rekerds and released jointly with Dirt Cult Records. Smile More is rough round the edges, melodic and urgent with hints of Naked Raygun and Pegboy. A vinyl release is …
Music / Year End 2012: Pass The Mic: Record Labels and Artists on 2012
Feature — January 5, 2013
For our first 2012 retrospective, we're passing the mic to record labels and artists to tell us what they thought of the past twelve months in music. As well as asking about their favourite albums of 2012 and what they're looking forward to for 2013, we also ask bands, …
Music / Year End 2012: Scene Point Blank's Favorites: Year End (2012)
Feature — January 12, 2013
Well, we're all still here: the year 2012 didn't see the world end, thankfully. And it's just as well -- it's been a brilliant year for music (according to SPB's review data, it's been a return to form after a mildly disappointing 2011). In this roundup of our favorite …
Music / Year End 2012: 2012: A Year In Review
Feature — January 20, 2013
It's time to complete our year-end coverage, summing up the best things 2012 has had to offer. In our now-customary roundup, we uncover the best EPs, hip-hop records, mixtapes, album artwork, live shows, free albums, worst releases, reissues and a ton more - all from 2012. If you feel …
Music: Coming in 2013: Scene Point Blank Anticipates
Feature — February 17, 2013
With 2012 now firmly behind us, it's time to take a look at the year ahead. In this feature, SPB staff compile lists of the records we're excited to hear this year, including Iron Chic, Black Sabbath, Broadway Calls, Black Face, The Tim Version, and, um, Justin Timberlake. We've …
Music / The Set List: Top 5 whoa-oh songs
Feature — March 17, 2013
Whoa-oh is both a pop-punk staple and a songwriting trick that finds its way across many genres. Is it a gimmick to create an easy anthem; a cheap way to fill in syllables; or does it not matter at all because, in the end, the songs that use it have …
Regular Columns: Guest Column: Blag Dahlia - Lean Times
Feature — March 17, 2013
I’ve been thinking about rich people lately, partly because I’d like to be one and partly because rich people as a group are such horrible human beings. I want to pursue my interests without worrying about money and, since my interests amount to reading, writing, rocking and fucking (in reverse …
Regular Columns: Guest Column: Joe Lally - irregular rhythm
Feature — April 21, 2013
One spring day in the early '90s, the fragrance of the new season still in the air, I drove my '82 Honda wagon onto route 50 in Virginia. Clicking on the car radio to a public station, I noticed I was listening to saxophone, bass, and drums in a way …
Regular Columns / Remember that one time...?: Guest Column: Eddie Spaghetti (Supersuckers)
Feature — June 17, 2013
Remember That One Time...? A life lived and lessons learned by Eddie Spaghetti *some names have been changed to protect the not so innocent This happened in the mid-nineties, 1995 to be exact. It was my birthday, so it was March and we were in Austin, TX working …
Music: Scene Point Blank's Favorites: The Year So Far (July 2013)
Feature — July 7, 2013
It barely seems like yesterday that we compiled our list of the best of 2012, but already the year 2013 is half finished, leaving in its wake some of the best albums of the last twelve months. Here the SPB team have compiled the best of these records, sorted by …
Regular Columns / Remember that one time...?: Guest Column: Eddie Spaghetti (Supersuckers): Part 2
Feature — July 7, 2013
Occasionally, when I'm traveling around the globe as I do someone will ask me the very general, "what's the craziest thing that's ever happened to you?" A question that's inevitably met with a prolonged sigh and a "where do I begin?" response that generally yields nothing in the way of …
