Features / Interviews

Recently, SPB had the opportunity to interview Justin Pearson, the mastermind behind the holy trinity of grind, The Locust, Some Girls, and 31G Records . Justin was straightforward and uncensored, as always. Scene Point Blank: Your sound is aggressive and caustic, but it lacks the caustic soulless masculinity that defines … Read more

The Measure [SA] is a punk rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey. Strictly Analog. Somewhat Attractive. Seldom Appropriate. We caught up with them before this year's Fest. Scene Point Blank: Seeing that this is a Fest interview, let's ask a few questions about that first. How many Fests have … Read more

The Mimes is a Cincinnati three-piece consisting of Maura Weaver, Megan Schroer, and John Hoffman, formed in isolation and making the most of a unique situation where the three long-time friends and musicians formed a Covid bubble to make something new while stepping outside of the boundaries of their other … Read more

It is quite well known that Monsters appear in shadows and lurk behind trees. They are always watching and observing. They follow patterns and wait for opportunities to present themselves. Now, what isn’t as well known is that they have been around since 1986 and reside in Bern, Switzerland! They … Read more

Less talk, more rock: New Brunswick’s The Motorleague aren’t interested in waxing philosphical about The East Coast or their place in the music industry. The Motorleague have been making music for about a decade. The band play alt rock songs and they’re based out of New Brunswick, and because of … Read more

SPB: Give me your name, status in the band, and where you're from. Vinnie: I'm Vinnie . . . I'm from Long Island, New York and I sing for The Movielife. SPB: How'd your band get started? Vinnie: Just a bunch of dudes that, like, knew each other through the … Read more

When Irish five-piece The Murder Capital recently released their debut album When I Have Fears, it was rapturously received by critics and music fans alike, with the band’s post-punk sound viscerally tapping into grief and disillusionment across the album’s ten tracks. The record was inspired by the suicide of a … Read more

Get your best dancing shoes on – we're going out dancing with The Mutants! The Mutants were and are an important influential band in the San Francisco Bay area and beyond, wedged between the original punk scene and the testosterone-fueled hardcore scene that was soon to follow them. For a … Read more

Way back in the far gone year of 2005, Jacob Berns and Chris Kiehne got together to record a small set of songs that, beyond their folksy, love story exterior, betrayed a dark and horrific substance. Accompanied by the lovely vocals of Sonya Cotton, those songs became the National Lights's … Read more

nerv·ous easily agitated or alarmed; tending to be anxious; highly strung. eat·er a person or animal that consumes food in a specified way or of a specified kind. A pallid white hand emerges from the Cistvaen breaking through the dank earth clutching a Shure Unidyne I Model 556 microphone. The … Read more

  While the summer for many adolescents provides an excuse to go outside and perhaps even get "wet and wild", on this nice Thursday night I had a date that required my single ass to stay indoors and online. This rendezvous would be with a math chaos grindcore band from New … Read more

The Ocean is a monstrous band--and not just by their formidable reputation. The band has seen scores of members come and go over their life span, but one figure has remained a constant presence over their thirteen-year history: frontman Robin Staps. We at SPB had the distinct honour of asking … Read more

SPB's Graham sat down with Katie Sketch of The Organ, who were conceived in 2001. Beginning her musical training at three years old with classical violin training, it's safe to say that Katie's life was always going to involve music. SPB talked to her to find out a little more … Read more

"All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets." - Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver Emerging from the underbelly of Austin, Texas, The Oxy's plunder, pillage, preach, pontificate, … Read more

The Psyke Project has been releasing since the early ‘00s. Samara, Daikini, Apnea, and Dead Storm gave way to the next logical step of their malicious plan and that is how Guillotine came to be, showing that this band could still surprise by conjuring some of their darkest moments yet. … Read more

D.C.’s The Rememberables dropped a new album — Breathe — last month, but it isn’t actually very new. It had been recorded long before the pandemic and was just waiting in line at a pressing plant. This is their second full-length and it was recorded at God City Studios in … Read more

Every few years, a band releases an album that will change the face of music. Typically this is because of its music. But it is the manner in which Reclamation Process, the latest album from The Rise, is being released that is garnering them so much attention. Cory Kilduff discusses … Read more

  Intricately layered, the Rum Diary's music creates a melodic topography of strident, staccato peaks and mellifluous, melodic valleys that can bring about any emotional reaction. It wouldn't have been at all surprising if while playing live, these guys did something like facing the floor the whole time, too involved in … Read more

Last year saw Italians The Secret suddenly blow up beyond all expectations and the release of Agnus Dei gave them the push into public consciousness that they so rightly deserved. Heavy touring both last year—with the mighty Converge—and a European trek this Spring with the excellent deafheaven will bring that … Read more

Many would consider The Senders one of the hardest-working live bands, hands down. Full of piss and vinegar, blood, sweat and tears and loud, blaring, unfiltered, salt-of-the-earth pureness. Coupled with greasy DAs, cheap drug store black combs in back pockets and streamer-filled, party-fueled rock ‘n’ roll. If you were not … Read more