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Music / The Set List: Top 5 Bands That Never Topped Their Debuts
Feature — November 25, 2014
1 Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction Admit it: you love this album just as much as everyone else. And with good reason; GNR's debut Appetite for Destruction is a pretty fucking awesome album. It's the classic 80s heavy metal album, filled from end-to-end with …
Music / Year End 2014: Pass The Mic: Artists on 2014
Feature — December 14, 2014
Since 2006 we've aimed to make our year-end roundups feature not just our thoughts on the best records of the past twelve months, but the thoughts of the people producing them: the bands and artists who make our scene what it is. In this collection of 30 interviews, we've spoken …
Music / Year End 2014: Pass The Mic: Record Labels on 2014
Feature — December 21, 2014
Every year we pause in our relentless quest to document the best music coming out of the punk, hardcore and indie scene and ask those on the other side to tell us what they've enjoyed: first the bands and artists, and secondly, the record labels. In this year's instalment we …
Music / Year End 2014: Scene Point Blank's Favorites: Year End (2014)
Feature — January 7, 2015
It's been another strong year for music in 2014 just gone – we've seen comebacks, unexpected debuts, strong follow-ups and soon-to-be classics from old and new bands alike. In this, our annual sitewide list, we've averaged and assembled our individual contributor's best-of-2014 lists into one superlist, amalgamating all of our …
One Question Interviews: Unwelcome Guests
Feature — January 11, 2015
Micah (Unwelcome Guests) SPB: If you could hear any band cover one of your songs, which song would it be, and who would play it? Micah: Hearing Deerhoof cover “Warm Soon” would be pretty wild.
Music / Year End 2014: 2014: A Year In Review
Feature — January 13, 2015
It's time for our final retrospective look at 2014 – this time we're covering all the stuff we missed from last year, whether it's the best hip-hop records, weird album artworks, press onesheet mis-steps, reissues records or new discoveries at Fest. Read on to find out what things passed under …
One Question Interviews: Thou
Feature — February 7, 2015
Thou SPB: What is your favorite part about the recording process? Andy: Overdubs, without a doubt. James Whitten, our recording guy/sound guru, is really good at helping us create outlandish sounds that end up sitting way back in the mix. I sometimes wonder if people listening to our …
Music / The Set List: Top 5 Album Closers
Feature — March 1, 2015
1 Devin Townsend – "Tall Latte" (Ziltoid, the Omniscient) Ziltoid is an impeccably funny album. Not only is the premise itself spectacularly silly (an alien destroys Earth because our coffee sucks), but Townsend peppers his humour throughout in the most subtle of ways, making the …
Music: Coming in 2015: Scene Point Blank Anticipates
Feature — March 1, 2015
Loren's list My list, in no order: Worriers In her Pass the Mic, Lauren references “their first proper full-length.” I don’t know what Cruel Optimist was, but with how good it was, I’m damn excited for another. Faith No More Anticipated is the right …
Music: Record Store Day 2015: our recommended local record stores
Feature — April 17, 2015
It's that time again – Record Store Day 2015. We all have a favorite or recommended store to pick up new releases, discover hidden gems or even sell old unwanted albums onto unwary shoppers. In this feature, we round up nine of our favorite local record stores, ranging from Dublin …
One Question Interviews: Nasty
Feature — June 11, 2015
Matthi (Nasty-vocals) SPB: What was the best show you’ve seen in the past year? Matthi: Sand at PDF Summer Bash in Osaka. Sand killed it as usual and people got crazy as fuck. Nobody cared about anything anymore. Just pure chaos.
One Question Interviews: Georgia Maq
Feature — June 27, 2015
Georgia Maq SPB: What song would you want played at your funeral? Maq: I'd like “Two Worlds” – Tiger’s Jaw played at my funeral.
One Question Interviews: Serious Beak
Feature — June 27, 2015
Serious Beak SPB: When did you decide that you want to make music for a living? Andrew Mortensen (bass): When I finished high school. But then I discovered to “make a living” from music, you had to play shit covers, in shitty RSLs, out in the middle of …
Music: Scene Point Blank's Favorites: The Year So Far (July 2015)
Feature — July 5, 2015
That's right: this year is already half empty. Or half full. Something like that? Metaphors aside, we at SPB have distilled the best music of the year so far into a delicious glass that you can sniff at delicately, taste a sip and pontificate over whether Faith No More's comeback …
One Question Interviews: Gonzovillain
Feature — July 11, 2015
Nathan Kearney (Gonzovillain) SPB: Is there a particular record you’ve heard this year that surprised you? In a good or a bad way? Kearny: I'd say that the record that's surprised me the most this year is Institute's EP Salt. They're a band from Texas who, for …
One Question Interviews: Unbroken
Feature — October 6, 2015
Rob Moran (Unbroken) SPB: Have you ever heard your band covered by somebody else? What did you think? Moran: I've heard a few covers over the years, some live and some recorded and it is always humbling. Of all the ones I've heard, Planes Mistaken For Stars was …
One Question Interviews: The Dirty Nil
Feature — November 30, 2015
Kyle Fisher (The Dirty Nil) SPB: What song in your active set list requires the most practice? What part is the hardest to get down? Fisher: “Little Metal Baby Fist” The second verse is tough in that song to maintain a good tempo. Sometimes the snare roll …
One Question Interviews: Livstid
Feature — November 30, 2015
Øyvind (Livstid – guitar) SPB: If you had your choice, which band would you love to tour with? Øyvind: A tour with Livstid and Icon of Evil would be a truly sick affair. They serve their slabs of death in the vein of Bolt Thrower. And if …
Music / Year End 2015: Pass The Mic: Record Labels on 2015
Feature — December 21, 2015
Every year since 2006, Scene Point Blank has made it our mission to find out what our community thought of the previous twelve months in music. At the end of each year we reach out to artists, record labels and other industry figures working in punk, hardcore and more to …
