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Music / Year End 2012: Pass The Mic: Record Labels and Artists on 2012
Feature — January 5, 2013
For our first 2012 retrospective, we're passing the mic to record labels and artists to tell us what they thought of the past twelve months in music. As well as asking about their favourite albums of 2012 and what they're looking forward to for 2013, we also ask bands, …
Regular Columns / Beyond Casual Observation: Jeffrey Roy on ADR mixing and Andrei Tarkovsky’s "Stalker"
Feature — August 6, 2017
Jeffrey Roy is busy. Check the link for his credits and you will see a vast list of projects. In this edition of “Beyond Casual Observation,” as with other entries, I talk to Roy to help round out the roles that audio professionals have in film. The similarities in …
Music: Pass The Mic: Record Labels and Artists on 2010
Feature — January 3, 2011
Another year ends, and another Scene Point Blank year-end feature rolls around. This time though we're firing on all cylinders - the site has relaunched, we've recruited new staff, and we've spoken to a record number of participants for our annual Pass The Mic report for 2010 - 50 …Music: Pass The Mic: Record Labels and Artists on 2009
Feature — October 16, 2010
It's year number four of Scene Point Blank's "Pass the Mic" feature as part of our evaluation of the best music of the year. With this year's "Pass the Mic" feature, we once again turned to some of our favorite bands, record labels, and other music business friends to …Interviews: ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Feature — October 16, 2010
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead have accomplished a lot in a decade and half. They've toured the world countless times over and have released a slew of recordings that have garnered them praise from fans and critics. Scene Point Blank spoke with guitarist, drummer, …Interviews: Whiskey and Company
Feature — October 16, 2010
While not your standard fair style-wise for a No Idea artist, the punk community has embraced Whiskey and Company's country musings. Vocalist Kim Helm spoke in depth with Scene Point Blank about the lyrical inspiration for the band as well as what we can expect from the band in …
One Question Interviews: Quintron and Miss Pussycat
Feature — January 11, 2015
Quintron & Miss Pussycat SPB: How do you describe your sound to strangers when they ask? Quintron & Miss Pussycat: SWAMP TECH
Music: Mischief Brew and the case for punk rock
Feature — August 9, 2015
I’ve been going to punk shows for well over a decade. That statement may seem like bragging, but it’s not. Most people in my day to day life think going to punk shows is dumb. I can understand why. At a punk show there is a good chance you’ll be …Music: Pass The Mic: Artists and 2007
Feature — October 16, 2010
Last year we introduced you, the readers of Scene Point Blank, to a new feature, "Pass the Mic," as part of our evaluation of the best music of 2006. We asked some of our favorite record labels to tell us their thoughts on the music of the year. …Music: Pass The Mic: Record Labels and 2006
Feature — October 16, 2010
By now you are familiar with Scene Point Blanks "End of the Year" features. Youve read what our staff thought of 2006, and now weve passed the proverbial mic along to individuals from prominent and up and coming record labels to let us know what they saw this past …
Music / The Greatest Story Ever Told: GSET: Nahko and Medicine for the People
Feature — September 25, 2016
Nahko Bear is a multi-instrumental, multi-talented, musician born in Portland, Oregon. Nahko’s songs are categorized as world fusion, and while those words are generally a meaningless catch-all for anything slightly outside Western music, for the singer and his collective Medicine for the People, the term applies. Nahko is of Apache, …Interviews: Look Back And Laugh
Feature — October 16, 2010
Do you remember that time you first fell in love? When the moonlight was a sonnet better left unspoken? Now here's the real doozy. What if I was to remind you of that time you fell in love with a band via live performance. You'd probably try to …
Candle – Miles and Miles and Miles
Review — June 16, 2008
Candle is the brainchild of singer/songwriter Kevin Coons, who expanded his solo recording project into a full band. Miles and Miles and Miles is the group's third release in as many years, and boasts a country tinged folk sound with small touches of indie rock. The album begins with "Pennies …
The Offspring – Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
Review — July 24, 2008
With an album title that sounds like the most recent Foo Fighters record, a song called "Fix You" (I thought Coldplay had already professed that particular desire), and a collection of tracks that sound like they want to be Green Day, My Chemical Romance or The Offspring circa 1994, The …
Coreline – Bone and Blood as Stone and Mud
Review — August 4, 2009
There's something very important one has to keep in mind when reviewing a Coreline album, or indeed merely when listening to it. And that is this: The brain that gave birth to this is one fully capable of rickrolling an entire festival audience, in amongst a performance that also delivers …
One Question Interviews: Jello Biafra
Feature — October 1, 2013
Jello BiafraSPB: What do you think of bands playing albums in their entirety as a touring concept? Is it a way to reinvigorate the album format? Biafra: It's a way for someone as versatile as the Melvins to keep playing their hottest towns several times a year, and …
One Question Interviews: Nato Coles
Feature — November 24, 2013
Nato Coles (Nato Coles & the Blue Diamond Band) SPB: What are your expectations for the Replacements reunion? Coles: The Replacements were one of the greatest rock'n'roll bands of all-time, no exaggeration, so I'm sure they'll sound good playing those songs, and I hope Slim's doing better. I …
One Question Interviews: Bobby Joe Ebola
Feature — May 14, 2014
Dan Abbott (Bobby Joe Ebola) SPB: What is the furthest you've traveled to play a single show (vs setting up a corresponding tour)? Abbott: Driving or flying? Somewhere around 1997 or so, we were contacted by a private college in Ohio. They offered us $900 to come play …
Regular Columns / Only Death Is Real: Only Death Is Real #2
Feature — April 20, 2019
Welcome to the second instalment of Only Death Is Real. This time round we swing from power electronics to decaying cosmic black metal, giving equal coverage to EPs, full-lengths and splits. Click on the title and you’ll find yourself on the relevant Bandcamp page. Axebreaker - Brutality in Stone …
