Our newest feature here at Scene Point Blank is our semi-daily quickie Q&A: One Question Interviews. Follow us at facebook or twitter and we'll post one interview every Monday-Thursday. Well, sometimes we miss a day, but it will be four each week regardless.
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Escapist Records will be releasing a vinyl version of Sworn Vengeance's And With This Hammer of Vengeance on 12". The album first came out as a digital only release but the vinyl will add seven tracks from the original recording session and three additional songs.
The San Francisco band …
Weekend Nachos will release a new LP, Still, on Nov. 11 via Relapse Records. The band, currently touring, has debuted two songs from the upcoming record here.
Xiu Xiu has announced the Dec. 3 release of Nina on Graveface Records. The 11-song record came after a discussion between Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart and Michael Gira concerning the influence the musician has had on their art.
Milwaukee's Enabler will release a new EP, Flies, on Earsplit Compound. The EP is available now on bandcamp and will be released in physical form soon. Here's Jeff Lohrber on the EP:
The Flies EP was such an unplanned and fun thing to put together...We recorded three …
Great Reversals just wrapped up a recording session and four new songs. Three will appear on a 7" for How Soon Is Now Records and will be appear on a split release with Sunlight Ascending. Drummer Eric Scobie has started an interview blog as well. Check it out.
Jazz label Mosaic Records is marking their thirtieth anniversay with the release of The Complete Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald Decca Sessions (1934-1941). The record, released on Oct. 8, is an 8-disc 187 song set with three of the 187 songs previously unreleased in any format.
Scene Point Blank is happy to team up with Black Numbers to offer a chance to fans at winning a copy of Placeholder's I Don't Need Forgiveness on LP. The Pennsylvania band released their second LP in September and will appeal to fans of Hot Water Music, Polar Bear Club, …
Guided By Voices busybody Robert Pollard will release a new LP on Dec. 10. This one, titled Blazing Gentlemen, is set for release on the band's GBV Inc. Records.
Cornish punks Bangers are offering their new album, Crazy Fucking Dreams, online for streaming (and for one week free download) before it's Oct. 21 release. The record is to drop on Beach Community Records with a limited edition cassette available from the band's Specialist Subject label.
In support …
Controlled Burn Records founders The Austerity Program will being recording on a new album in November. The label is currently selling pre-orders for Nonagon and The Austerity Program themselves have posted a pre-production journal for their upcoming record here.
Art Brut, on tour in the UK next month, have announced the retirement and replacement of Mikey Breyer (drums) and Jasper Future (guitar). The two are replaced by Stephen Gilchrist (drums) and Toby Macfairlane (guitar) who have previously played with Graham Coxon and Charlotte Hatherley.
UK dates are below.
The upcoming Negative Approach/Casualties tour has had a handful of dates added, bot at the start and end of the run. Dates are below. The Casualties last released Resistance.
Marijuana Deathsquads (P.O.S., Gayngs, Polica) have announced the Oct. 15 release of a new album titled Oh My Sexy Lord, due on Totally Gross National Product record label. The multi-drummer experiemental band will be touring alongside Polica this fall.
Relapse Records has posted a 26 song sampler of their roster, inclusing cuts from Red Fang, Baroness, Toxic Holocaust, Locrian, Ulcerate, Weekend Nachos, and more. Check out a full listing of bands after the jump, and check out our recent review of Ulcerate's Vermis too.
Life to Live Records has signed Tacoma, WA straight edge hardcore band Safe and Sound to their roster, comparing the band's sound to classic acts such as Battery, Floorpunch, Gorilla Biscutis, and Youth of Today. No details were included about upcoming releases at present.
MVD has announced plans to combine two musical collectibles into a single package, offering picture disc vinyl along with DVD documentaries. The series will launch with three releases: Ike & Tina Turner, Iggy & the Stooges, and GG Allin.
Pogues and Radiators from Space guitarist Philip Chevron passed away this morning after battling neck and throat cancer. He was first diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2007 and it returned earlier this year. The Pogues offered the following statement via facebook:
After a long illness we are sorry …
Luscious Jackson have announced a new crowdfunded album will released on Nov. 5. The record, Magic Hour, willbe on their own imprint City Song and they've debuted the song "Show uss What You Got" below.
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FM359 played their first shlow last Thursday at the Pirates Press Records 9 Year Anniversary show. The band features Mike McColgan and Rick Barton of Street Dogs/Dropkick Murphys fame and plays "humanitarian (non-religious) GOSPEL Americana (punk) rock."