Latest features browse all

Commerce or Amusement? #1

Regular Columns / Commerce or Amusement? • June 9, 2026

Are You In The Music Business? Or Just Involved In Music? Interview Series #1 Featuring Jordan Stamm of Drunk Dial Records CC: Hello Jordan! Could you start off by telling the readers a little bit about yourself and Drunk Dial Records? Do you recall how you and I met? JS: Hey! The long story short is that I’m a music fan, and there’s nothing I love more than discovering and sharing bands with people. When most people were learning to play guitar in their teen years, I was learning how to promote bands. Through reputation, I got a job at a local SF Bay Area label called Orange Peal Records when I was 16 and quickly began signing bands there. I started my first label (Darkwhite Records) when I was 17, and within a few years the reality of the music *business* started to clash with my idealism. I quit both labels and moved to Portland, Oregon. Fast forward 10 years: my love for music never went away, and my desire to put out music came creeping back. I wanted to release music again, but I didn’t want to deal with money, contracts, or frontmen who wanted to get famous. One night at a bar, I came up with the idea for drunk dial -- basically getting bands drunk in the studio and forcing them to write a song on the spot, then releasing it on 7”. The idea stuck, and over the next few nights of drinking, it was … Read more

J Mau & The Kiss Off

ASL interpreter

Interviews / Don't Quit Your Day Job • June 8, 2026

There are a lot of misconceptions about the life of a musician. Most musicians have day jobs – and not … Read more

Demos You Want To Check #3

Music / New Kids On The Block • May 8, 2026

The musical landscape is ever changing. New genres are popping up, new hypes burst out of nowhere and die out … Read more

Jason Paul + the Know It Alls

Interviews • May 8, 2026

Here in Scene Point Blank Land, I sometimes get lost in the inbox of endless submissions and new music. I … Read more

Latest album reviews browse all

Six Going on Seven

Human Tears
Spartan Records (2026)

Late 90s post hardcore and emo feels impossible to recreate now. That’s not because the sound itself is gone, but because the tension behind it was so specific to that era. Six Going on Seven’s Human Tears, their first full length in roughly twenty-four years, captures that feeling perfectly. Having a wonderful history by having done a split with Hot … Read more

The Bug Club

Every Single Muscle
Sub Pop (2026)

  I got kind of obsessed with reviewing this record after I heard the first single “Watching The Omnibus” which they released digitally earlier this year. I could probably just write a whole thing about how hard it was to get an advance download of it for review, but I try to keep my reviews positive so I will steer clear … Read more

The Cascadian Divide

To the Sky
Independent (2026)

The Cascadian Divide is a Washington state based melodic skate punk band that formed during the infamous COVID lockdown. Although it started as an experiment, it soon became a passion project for the band members. The band has seen its share of line up changes over the years, but the commitment to maintaining the sound and integrity of the band … Read more

Jungle Rot

Cruel Face Of War
Unique Leader (2026)

Twelve albums and more than three decades into their career, Jungle Rot remains one of death metal's most reliable institutions. While countless bands have spent years chasing technical excess, progressive experimentation, or whatever trend happens to be dominating the underground now, the Kenosha veterans have remained committed to a simpler mission. Writing memorable riffs, locking into crushing grooves, and leaving … Read more

Additional album reviews

Overcalc

Fruits of the Decision Tree
Sleeping Giant Glossolalia (2024)

Some instrumental records create atmosphere while others create movement. Fruits of the Decision Tree feels like it creates an entire environment. It’s unstable, mechanical, strangely beautiful, and constantly in motion. … Read more

Fangus

Emerald Dream
From The Urn Records (2026)

The needle drops, and there’s no introductory sweaty handshake. Fangus doesn’t care for niceties; they’re ready to get down to brass-knuckle business. With their debut full-length, Emerald Dream, the Montreal … Read more

Drakulas

Midnight City
Dirtnap, Wild Honey Records (2026)

I’m assuming Midnight City is the “fictionalized New York-esque metropolis” where the band/gang members of Drakulas survive(d in the mid to late 70's;). It’s also the third album by this … Read more

Lethal Limits

Elevate EP
GhettoBlaster Productions (2025)

As far as I can gather Jeff Corso has been playing in bands in the Bay Area for the past 20 years but seems like exclusively hardcore until now. Full … Read more

Dealbreaker

New Sides
Late Again Records, Toll Free Records (2026)

Dealbreaker popped onto my radar as part of a package tour with Pro Wrestling, who cold called me with a Penske File namedrop. This story is a bit of a … Read more

The Library Is On Fire

Degeneration Elegies
The Abyss, Ltd. (2026)

There’s a certain kind of band that never quite fits the moment they arrive in. Sometimes too jagged for one scene, too melodic for another. The Library Is On Fire … Read more

Nicole Alexis

Mirrors & Smoke
Independent (2026)

There’s a fine line between stripped down music and so stripped back that is sounds empty. On Mirrors and Smoke, Nicole Alexis lands comfortably on the right side of that … Read more

The Remote Controls

Too Tough
Fail Harmonic Records, Mom’s Basement Records (2025)

There’s a certain kind of punk band that doesn’t overthink things. No reinvention, no genre-bending manifesto, just fast songs, big hooks, and enough attitude to carry it all. Indianapolis’ The … Read more

News headlines browse all

SPB featured stream: Full Full Full - Half A Cassette

Posted in Records on June 1, 2026

To kick off the new month we’re sharing a new EP from French punk band Full Full Full, Half A Cassette. The 7-song EP is melodic and singalong, with shades of ‘90s punk but delivered with moder flair, citing influences like Iron Chic, The Flatliners, Nothington, Jawbreaker, and Red City … Read more

Nagusame (慰め on "Grinder"

Posted in Bands on June 17, 2026

Nagusame shared "The Grinder" today, the first single from an upcoming 6-song EP titled I Want To Leave, coming out later this year on White Russian Records. The Dutch melodic … Read more

Some "Spin" from Johnny Marr

Posted in Records on June 17, 2026

Johnny Marr shared new single "Spin" today, the lead single from Marr's upcoming fifth solo album, which is called The Age Of Everything. It comes out on Oct. 2 on … Read more

21 years of Ceremony

Posted in Records on June 17, 2026

Another August release has been announced: Tell Me You Dream, the latest by Ceremony, out on August 7 on Relapse Records. The band will follow it up with a North … Read more

Dead Tired in August

Posted in Records on June 16, 2026

Dead Tired returns with a new 12-song album called Hornets of Fall, out August 14 on New Damage Records, a follow-up to Satan Will Follow You Home (2022). It includes … Read more

Sophomore Gloom

Posted in Records on June 16, 2026

LA punk rockers Sweet Gloom have just announced their sophomore release No Love Lost. The announcement comes with the first video/single for their song “Box Dye”. Sweet Gloom released their … Read more

Dagwood preview

Posted in Bands on June 16, 2026

Dagwood has shared a new video for the song "Walls of my Medroom," an early glimpse into the Connecticut band's upcoming LP. Read more live dates: 6/25 - Malden, MA … Read more

Album stream