Features / Interviews

For most bands in the punk rock community, success comes with a price. Whenever a band achieves a new level of popularity through radio play or a larger distribution deal, there comes the inevitable backlash of naysayers who ardently proclaim that the band isn't as good as they used to … Read more

Handcuffs commonly are thought of as restraint devices immobilizing the other party they are being applied to. However, in this case, The Handcuffs are anything but restrained. The Handcuffs unleash well-crafted rock ‘n’ roll schooled on an encyclopedic knowledge of its history. I had the opportunity to converse with Brad … Read more

Every few years or so a band will hit the music scene with such tenacity and power that many critics claim them to be "The band that will save rock and roll." With three albums in the last three years, The Hold Steady are instead proving that rock and roll … Read more

Since the Hope Conspiracy recently dropped the powerful Death Knows Your Name, we here at Scene Point Blank decided to talk to vocalist Kevin Baker to find out his feelings on it as well as any other interesting tidbits that he could spare to give us. Scene Point Blank: How … Read more

When you think of mid-90's emo bands, names like Braid and The Get Up Kids come to mind. Along with these bands, The Jazz June has to pop into your head. After forming in 1996 and releasing numerous records, the band broke up after 2001's Better Off Without Air. Members … Read more

If you're a fan of punk music, then you are likely a fan of The Lawrence Arms. Scene Point Blank corresponded with vocalist/guitarist Chris McCaughan about the current happenings with the band as well as the events of this year's Fest. Scene Point Blank: We're a little bit late, but … Read more

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