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Records: SPB Premiere - "Misery Machine" by Conan Neutron & The Secret Friends
News — October 12, 2020
Formed in Oakland, California in 2015 and now generally based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, rock group Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends features players known for their work in bands like Replicator, MELVINS, Trophy Wives and Coliseum to name a few. Over the years, they’ve produced several releases, including a full-length …
Records: SPB Premiere - "Primitivismo" by Chulo
News — October 8, 2020
In frantic modern society, I feel like the notion of time has gotten completely out of whack. With hyper-drive news cycles and a constant bombardment of information and, frankly, noise, last week at any given time seems like it occurred centuries ago. I’ve noticed at various points, however, a curious …
Records: Video Premiere - "Character Stop" by USA Nails
News — October 5, 2020
2020 has been a weird year to say the least and it’s seemed to be reaching close to critical mass in recent days. In conversation with friends the other day, I speculated on the notion that “reality” is a computer simulation, as has been postulated by some scientists. If that’s …
Records: Video Premiere - "Hope Like the Ocean" by Bares His Teeth
News — September 22, 2020
The current world environment has allowed many things to happen, some not so good, and some optimistic. I recall a dialogue I saw online back in the early days of the pandemic that essentially said publishers should get ready for a flood of manuscripts due to creative types being shut …
Records: Video Premiere - "Clock Without Hands" by R.E. Seraphin
News — September 17, 2020
A Room Forever. That’s kind of what 2020 has felt like at times. I know there was a period where I grew damn sick of sitting around in a single room for days on end and honestly, still don’t venture out too much. Despite its challenges, 2020 has presented an …
Records: Video Premiere - "Keep Me Going" by CODY
News — September 3, 2020
I had a musician friend who would write folk-based songs and turn them into electronic music tracks. Problem was, while the essence of these songs was good, maybe great, they’d wind up being eight or nine-minute pieces that just struck me as being bloated. My thought was, if you have …
Records: Video Premiere - "Am I?" by Hyper Tensions
News — August 27, 2020
Existing for the past decade or so in the Midwest and now based in Indianapolis, Hyper Tensions make the kind of grungey, punk-oriented garage rock that wouldn’t seem at all out of place among the lineups I saw a few years back at the Levitation psychedelic music festival. After a …
Records: SPB Premiere - "Conflict" by Zao
News — August 18, 2020
Founded in 1993 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, Zao has gone on to release 11 hard-hitting full-length albums and several EPs and splits, including 2019’s Reformat/Reboot remix album that, aside from traditional formats, was also released as an NES cartridge. Steadfast Records has a pair of upcoming releases from the …
Records: Video Premiere - "My Mother's Mother" By SAND Co.
News — August 12, 2020
Built around the guitar work and delicate vocals of Ben Sandrock, German collective SAND Co.’s Forever Laying Down finds the songwriter joined by a quintet of musicians who help transform the tunes into more fully developed compositions replete with warm organ and synths. The end result is eight expressive …
Records: Video Premiere - "Ain't No Sunshine" by Some Days are Darker
News — August 4, 2020
Given its name, I suppose it’s not particularly surprising that Some Days are Darker produces music on the more gloomy side. In the hands of Phoenix-based, Detroit-raised musician Lear Mason, however, many of the smoky and bluesy songs found on the project’s debut album, Love+Truth, have a catchiness and …
Records: SPB Premiere - "You Were Just Here" by Powerwasher
News — July 30, 2020
Baltimore by way of Atlanta four-piece Powerwasher is gearing up for the release of their debut album, The Power of Positive Washing, coming out August 14 digitally as well as on cassette. Together since 2019, the band makes a brand of noisy rock music that for me kind of …
Records: Video Premiere - "Clean" by Lowfaith
News — July 28, 2020
Propulsive and compelling, “Earth Falls Quiet, Heaven & Hell Sing” from Denver-based quintet Lowfaith presents five tracks that range from being warm and even hopeful to conveying a sense of immediacy and desperation. Though not as aggressively noisy as some of the classic shoegaze albums, the band certainly treads in …
Records: Video Premiere - "Tangents" by CATERPILLARS
News — July 26, 2020
CATERPILLARS’ Facebook page declares that the four-piece group enjoys “chilling your bones while rocking them at the same time.” That description seems accurate in describing their upcoming third full length, Where Shadows Go to Speak. Following up 2018’s In the Company of Wolves, the album runs the …
Records: SPB Premiere - "The Time Past" by Han Gan
News — June 30, 2020
Based in the Capital metro of Washington, D.C., three-piece Han Gan returns with The Time Past EP, a follow-up to 2018 full-length The City of Magnificent Intentions. This group, made up of veteran players from the hardcore and punk scene, matches their hard-hitting instrumental parts with thought-provoking lyrics reflecting …
Records: SPB Premiere - "Part None" By Valentina Magaletti & Marlene Ribeiro
News — June 4, 2020
"Based on the idea that cultural creation is enriched by the exchange of knowledge and the crossing of ideas, the project Hysteria held in Porto, Portugal in 2019 aimed to create a space for discussion between the artists involved, in the foreground, and between them and the public. To this …
Videos: Video Premiere - Joey Karam and David Scott Stone Live at the Che Cafe
News — May 21, 2020
With most or all in-person live music performances seemingly postponed indefinitely, jump in the time machine with the Scene Point Blank premiere of a video capturing a live show from the (legendary?) Che Cafe on the campus of the University of California San Diego, July 7th, 2006 featuring …
Records: SPB Premiere - "Catastrophe" by SNST
News — May 14, 2020
I suppose it’s not the least bit surprising that politics and general frustration at the state of the world seems to be creeping into a lot of the art being produced nowadays. “Catastrophe” from Chicago-based SNST, a group made up of Chris Broach (of Braid and The Firebird Band) and …
Records: SPB Premiere - "Hairy Palms" by Barren Womb
News — April 16, 2020
With a penchant for coming up with amusing track titles as well as pumping out catchy and crunchy noise punk, Norwegian duo Barren Womb have been unleashing their own sonic recreation of the apocalypse for most of the past decade. A few years removed from their previous full length, 2018’s …
Records: Video Premiere - "Real to Reel" by 310AM
News — April 7, 2020
Formed as singer and multi-instrumentalist Nate Erickson’s previous project, After Hours Radio, was winding down, Michigan-based indie project 310AM has a sound and overall sense of sincerity that hearkens back to the alternative and emo music of the early 2000s. After releasing a pair of singles over the past …
