An E-card featuring "The Widow," the first single from The Mars Volta sophomore effort, Frances the Mute. has been posted online. The album is slated for a March 1st release date. You can view it
here.
It's been a turbulent week for your favourite webzine. Monday 20th December, a crazy internet worm (read: virus, for the simple-minded) took SPB off the air. It got in through a sneaky security hole in phpBB, our forum software. From there, it then replaced the content of every single page …
In an update by TMV fansite Inertiatic.com, news about the Mars Volta's upcoming release has been confirmed. All musicians are the same as the last release, with the addition of Larry Harlow, who is listed as playing piano. Artwork will be handled by Storm Thorgerson, the mastermind behind the …
How were the last 3 days for you? Frightening? Life-changing? TERRIFYING? Us too. Unless you're one of the minority who only checks SPB weekly rather than daily, you will have noticed our downtime in the last few days. The reason for this is a DDOS attack on ScenePointBlank. Clearly somebody …
Being too busy caught up in delivering the freshest reviews, news, interviews and everything else you could ever want, SPB in its desire to do everything and please everyone seems to have neglected the Mp3 of the week section. In light of the popularity of devices like the i-pod and …
Management has contacted The Comatorium (Mars Volta fansite) to confirm that The Mars Volta's next album will be titled: Frances The Mute. Their label website (GSL) currently says that the album will be available in November of this year. However, rumors have surfaced that the album release date has been …
In what looks like the third notable story involving bands beating up other bands, "nu-emo" starlets Finch apparantly got into a fight with members of the equally awful Disturbed. Prayers from the hardcore community that both bands finished one another off were sadly unanswered, but Finch had this to say: …
We've gotten around to updating staff profiles for our new team members, so be sure to check out Carver, Heidi, Jeff C, Morgan, Matt K, Nancy, Ryan, Steve and Will.
Sean also updated his information. In a bizarre twist of fate, SPB …
In a bizarre twist of fate, Icelandic (we think?) website taflan.org linked us with a comment in icelandic. After a rigorous translation session, we discovered the following based on their post:
"Perhaps infinitesimal too hip *" pay lip service to my tasteless , while copper be allowed own a …
Modest Mouse are set to release an official live bootleg record taken from two shows recorded on February 15th and 16th at Florida's The Social. Only available at their website, "Baron von Bullshit Rides Again" will be released on April 13th. Pre-ordering from their site is available, and the …
Weezer.com has posted news that one of the most unlikely reunions has taken place - Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo recently joined estranged original bassist Matt Sharp during the latter's acoustic performance at Cal State Fullerton. The duo played an old, pre-Weezer song, a new collaboration they had written, and "Say …
Welcome to the new, improved, faster, better, feature-packed and all round rockin' design of your favorite voice in the online music world. It's been a crappy few months for us what with server changes, site downtime, staff quitting before they'd even begun work, and problems restricting this new design until …
