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Interviews / Don't Quit Your Day Job • September 5, 2026

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 creative process at night. In Don’t Quit Your Day Job, Scene Point Blank looks at how musicians split their time, and how their careers influence their music (or how their music provides escape). Today we catch up with Jeff Corso, whose Lethal Limits project recently released an EP, Elevate. Corso also plays in Coffin Party, who plan a new album soon called PMA All Day Every Day. Corso is currently studying music therapy. Scene Point Blank: You're in school now -- is it for Sociology more broadly or specifically for Music Therapy? Jeff Corso: Yes, I am currently going to UC Berkeley primarily studying Sociology while also taking classes for music therapy. In some miracle of the universe, I got a full ride scholarship. Otherwise, this would not be a reality. Scene Point Blank: Tell us about your in-class sessions. What is a typical scenario and how is music integrated into the process? Jeff Corso: I appreciate the fact that our professor, who is a licensed music therapist and professional singer, treats us as if we are actually music therapists. We have learned proper techniques and approaches for interventions often doing role play of therapist/client in class. We became familiar with … Read more

UK Subs

Interviews • August 23, 2026

50 Years of Chaos: Charlie Harper and the U.K. Subs More than five decades after the first sparks of punk … Read more

Commerce or Amusement? #2

Green Noise Records

Regular Columns / Commerce or Amusement? • August 22, 2026

Are You In The Music Business? Or Just Involved In Music? Interview Series #2. Featuring Martin Winch of Green Noise … Read more

Anathema Editions

Music / History 101 • August 11, 2026

Did you know it’s been 10 years since Anathema Editions put out its first release? To make the moment, we … Read more

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Generacion Suicida

Hombre Nuevo
Vitriol (2026)

On the tail end of Autogramm’s 2018 tour of Mexico (what little I remember of that week now is a lot of pulque and not a lot of sleep) I visited the one punk record store in CDMX that I found via googling where to buy bootleg punk t-shirts. I’d already visited Venas Rotas Discos earlier on the trip and … Read more

Karen Dió

Fugaz
Hopeless (2026)

Six songs. That's all Karen Dió needs on this EP. Considering the title translates roughly to fleeting, brief, or transient in Portuguese, maybe that's exactly the point. Dió's second EP doesn't hang around long enough to overstay its welcome. It arrives, makes a hell of a lot of noise, throws some gigantic hooks at you, and disappears. But there's considerably … Read more

Real Numbers

Was It Always This Way
Slumberland Records (2026)

I feel like this may be the first 12", 10-song release in my collection from Real Numbers, a dreampop meets jangle-indie rock band from Minneapolis. I'm not going to fact check my statement, because I mean it as a metaphor. Real Numbers play exactly what you'd expect based on my short description so far, but there's always something just a … Read more

Alien Nosejob

How A Mosquito Operates
Anti Fade, Iron Lung (2026)

200 Words Or Less

The one-man band of Alien Nosejob continues to crank out short, angry hardcore in quick bursts. I've lost count of how many records Jake Robertson has now released under the name. I'll just say that while the first couple took some direction changes, the project seems to have found its footing in 1980s-influenced hardcore. With 17 songs in 24 minutes, … Read more

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Cancer Bats

Give Me Dirt
Marshall Amplification PLC, New Damage records (2026)

ALBUM HIGHLIGHTS – “Bright Eyes of Gold”, “Give Me Dirt”, “Long Tooth”, “Fools Like You” Almost exactly two years ago, on 8th August 2024, Cancer Bats played Conne Island in … Read more

Book Review

Tyler Sonnichsen

The Dead Milkmen
J-Card Press (2026)

When I saw The Dead Milkmen at Toronto’s Diamond Club back in the late 1980s, the floor was a volatile, beautiful mess of colliding subcultures. It was like different species … Read more

Opus Kink

The Sweet Goodbye
So Recordings (2026)

ALBUM HIGHLIGHTS – “Come Over, Do Me Wrong”, “The Sweet Goodbye”, “I Have to Shine My Sunday Shoes”, “Crucify!” Opus Kink sound like nobody else. To call them “jazz punk” … Read more

Sludgeworth

Second Time Around
Red Scare Industries (2026)

I never got very into Screeching Weasel and the extended family tree. Ignoring the politics of the matter, the music never really hit that sweet spot for me either. But … Read more

Social Distortion

Born to Kill
Epitaph (2026)

Rating: 🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🍸🚬 / 10 (8 Tipped Martini Glasses and a Cigarette) Remember that movie Fantastic Voyage, where a miniaturized submarine gets inserted into a person's bloodstream on a mission to … Read more

Big Circle

Big Circle
Independent (2026)

There are plenty of supergroups that exist largely because of the names on the marquee. Big Circle feels different. While Glenn Mercer (The Feelies), Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE), Dave Weckerman … Read more

Nocturnal Prose

Western Interests
Total Agency (2026)

I’ve been reading Cory Doctorow’s latest book “The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI” a scathing review of the current state of artificial intelligence wherein he seeks to pop … Read more

Kyle Burnett

Glory Days
Syrup Moose Records (2026)

There’s a form of folk punk that treats every song like a drunken campfire confession with all its ragged shouting and romanticized self-destruction. Then there’s the version that feels mature … Read more

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SPB featured stream: Sliimo

Posted in Records on September 4, 2026

Sliimo returns to earth with a brand new record, a self-titled (2026) effort that expands on the band’s sludge/stoner space metal. Described as “a sci-fi space metal band from the moon of Nar Shaddaa, but way of Providence, RI,” the mission is “to show that goofy freaks have a place … Read more

The World/Inferno Friendship Society's Red-Eyed Soul

Posted in Records on September 5, 2026

originally released in 2006, Red-Eyed Soul by The World/Inferno Friendship Society will be re-released in a 20th anniversary double LP on Ernest Jenning Record Co. on Oct. 30. Marking the … Read more

Superintendo challenges, or responds to, the algorithm

Posted in Bands on September 5, 2026

North Carolina punk band Superintendo shared "Hearts & Cliques" yesterday, a new video and teaser for this winter's new album: We Will Not Be Undersold. "'Hearts & Cliques' is a … Read more

Dorena's Kvar

Posted in Records on September 5, 2026

Swedish post-rock group Dorena returns with their fourth full-length album, Kvar, out now on Deep Elm Records. The band -- Andreas Brandt, Robin Lindstrom Kupiainen, Kim Ruiz, Simon Rohlen, and … Read more

Yeah Yeah Yeahs live record and video

Posted in Records on September 5, 2026

Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2025 set in London last year will be released under the title Hidden in Pieces: Live at The Royal Albert Hall on Oct. 23 on Secretly Canadian … Read more

The Jack Knives try to count

Posted in Records on September 5, 2026

The Jack Knives, of California, shared the single "One Eleven" yesterday -- the first single from the band's Nov. 6 album Negative Spaces, out via Fumie Records and SBÄM Records. … Read more

2026 is a Cosmic Joke (Grizzlor)

Posted in Records on September 5, 2026

Noise rock band Grizzlor dropped a Cosmic Joke on us on Wednesday, Sept. 2, releasing a new EP of said title. At the same time, they shaked the single "Who … Read more

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