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One Question Interviews: Hopper
Feature — January 15, 2024
Trevor (Hopper – guitar/vocals) SPB: What is the best (or worst) reunion show you’ve seen? Trevor: By far, the best reunion show I've seen was Jawbox. They did not fuck around with their musical legacy. They clearly put the work into living inside their material after years away …
One Question Interviews: Battery Licker
Feature — January 16, 2024
Battery Licker SPB: As a synthy band, I’ll assume you keep up with tech changes. How has the increasingly digitalization of the music industry changed how you consume or listen to music? Battery Licker: The increased digitization of the music industry has translated to us listening to a …
One Question Interviews: Tristan Welch
Feature — January 17, 2024
Tristan Welch (Requiem/Sutras) SPB: You often primarily play a very ambient style – How do you typically begin the songwriting process for a composition? Welch: What's funny with me is that my ambient style is really just a punk or hardcore song. It's just over the years of …
One Question Interviews: Goddamnit
Feature — January 18, 2024
Arik Victor (Goddamnit) SPB: Who is your favorite Philadelphia band of all time? Victor: Kid dynamite.
One Question Interviews: Bumsy and the Moochers
Feature — January 29, 2024
Caitlin Edwards (Bumsy and the Moochers ) SPB: What was the first song you learned to play on your current instrument? Edwards: "Basket Case" (Green Day)
One Question Interviews: The Abruptors
Feature — January 30, 2024
The Abruptors SPB: Who is your favorite band/artist you discovered on your last tour? Mike & Toni: I think we're going with The Filthy Radicals: high-energy ska punk. A real treat to watch and hang out with!
Interviews / Don't Quit Your Day Job: Graduation Speech/Errth
Feature — January 29, 2024
There are a lot of misconceptions about the life of a musician. Most musicians have day jobs – and not just to pay the bills. Jobs provide new challenges, personal fulfillment and, yes, some rent or gas money. How an artist spends their time by day will influence the …
One Question Interviews / What's That Noise?: Middle-Aged Queers
Feature — January 31, 2024
Josh Levine (Middle-Aged Queers) SPB: Tell us about the day you bought your current (primary) bass and why you chose it. Levine: I bought my current primary bass in the ‘90s at Univibe Music (RIP) in Oakland. It’s a DanElectro Longhorn, ‘90s reissue. I thought it was black. …
One Question Interviews: ZEPHR
Feature — February 8, 2024
Jim Fitzpatrick (ZEPHR) SPB: What was the first band you were ever in? What style of music did you (try to) play? Fitzpatrick: My first ever band was called The Stone Giants. I was in 8th grade, and I started the band with my neighbors who lived a …
One Question Interviews: Dot Dash
Feature — February 9, 2024
Terry (Dot Dash) SBP: Your new album title is a nod to the Buzzcocks. What’s your favorite deep cut from the band? Terry: My favorite Buzzcocks song is/was/always will be “Love You More'” -- there are tons of great ones by them, but that's my fave. …
One Question Interviews: Heavy Weather
Feature — February 19, 2024
Nick Bitikofer (Heavy Weather) SPB: How much space in your home is dedicated to music storage (either media or instruments)? Bitikofer: I'm fortunate enough to have a pretty good sized basement, which acts as a music room and hang out space. I'd say about half of the space …
One Question Interviews: Dez Dare
Feature — February 20, 2024
Dez Dare SPB: You’ve been very prolific in releasing records of late. How do you keep yourself motivated? Dez Dare: I have always been fluid and flowing in ideas, whether people want to hear them or not. When I was younger I had trouble culling which ideas were …
One Question Interviews: Teens in Trouble
Feature — February 27, 2024
Lizzie Killian (Teens in Trouble - vocals/guitar/songwriter) SPB: You’re in North Carolina, but work closely with Asian Man Records in the CA Bay Area, right? How did you get so involved with the label, given the distance between you? Killian: I'm actually from San Francisco and lived in …
One Question Interviews / What's That Noise?: Stephen Hamm Theremin Man
Feature — March 4, 2024
Stephen Hamm Theremin Man shows off his theremin magic.
Interviews / Don't Quit Your Day Job: Chunksaah Records
Feature — March 11, 2024
There are a lot of misconceptions about life in the music biz. While late nights and travel are a big part of it, day jobs always influence the process and the product. In Don’t Quit Your Day Job, Scene Point Blank looks at how careers influence the scene. In …
One Question Interviews: Faulty Cognitions
Feature — March 19, 2024
Yole (Faulty Cognitions) SPB: Who came up with the band name (and if it wasn’t you, what was your first impression)? Yole: When Chris and I were scrimmaging for names for the band, he mentioned Faulty Cognitions. My first thought was that it could be a tongue twister …
One Question Interviews: The Obvious Tells
Feature — March 20, 2024
Jessica Amelia (The Obvious Tells) SPB: What song has been the hardest to work into your live set list? Jessica: In any project I play in, there’s always one song written in a stupid tuning that turns into an annoyance to play live. With The Obvious Tells, it’s …
One Question Interviews: Fog Lamp
Feature — March 21, 2024
Fog Lamp SPB: What is your favorite stretch of highway to drive while on tour? Fog Lamp: While it's not the most scenic, the I-5 is the best way to get up to the Bay Area from Los Angeles. The whole stretch is called the grapevine because it …
One Question Interviews: Nick Kizirnis
Feature — April 2, 2024
Nick Kizirnis SPB: What is your method to collaborative songwriting or recording (aka how do you approach working with other creatives as compared to writing solo – is it different)?" Kizirnis: I've taken different approaches but over the past few years I've collaborated with friends and fellow musicians …
