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Regular Columns / Running on Nothing: Guest Column: The Lippies - Uncanny Indeed
Feature — February 21, 2021
Welcome to Running on Nothing, the latest addition to our stable of columns at Scene Point Blank. Running on Nothing offers a look at the world through the eyes of Kole, bassist of The Lippies, who have been working on a new LP for Red Scare Industries. …
Regular Columns / Running on Nothing: It's Only Illegal if You Get Caught
Feature — April 18, 2021
About a year ago, we found ourselves in the middle of a worldwide pandemic. Out of boredom, I did a livestream on my social media where I did a joke tutorial about how to draw penises. It was a joke that backfired on me. I ended up making a few …
Regular Columns / Running on Nothing: Get In The Van Dummy, We're Going Surfing!
Feature — June 7, 2021
I was in a band called The Lippies. I say "was" because we just broke up. Again. Hahahahaha! When we formed, we never had any intention of truly being anything more than a local or regional band. Then we caught the attention of Toby from Red Scare Industries and things …
Regular Columns / Running on Nothing: I went on tour for 2 days and all I got was a panic attack (and sand in my butt)
Feature — September 19, 2021
I've been the main merch guy for Mustard Plug for the past 10 years. My schedule is pretty loose, so it allows me to do tours with them. I love the job. It's a lot of fun meeting new people, traveling to various states, and hanging out with my buds …
Regular Columns / Running on Nothing: There's a Glitch in the Matrix
Feature — November 30, 2021
A handful of years ago, my friend Jay sent me the demo of his new band. Jay had spent years fronting the legendary Detroit punk/ska band, The Suicide Machines. A few years had passed since they released War Profiteering and broke up. Jay was fronting a new band now. …
Regular Columns / Running on Nothing: TAPTAPTAP Is this thing on?
Feature — February 7, 2022
Let's have a chat about preaching to the choir. It's that thing where the message you are putting out there with your music isn't really getting past the people who may already know the message. I'm getting up there in my years and experience. By the time we started The …
Regular Columns / Running on Nothing: Thirsty and Miserable
Feature — May 3, 2022
I think about music all the time. Always have since I was a kid. One of the many ideas I've pondered and debated with my peers is the recurring trend of bands putting out an amazing first record, gaining some form of notoriety or fame, and then completely bombing their …
Regular Columns / Running on Nothing: Yep. We're definitely in the darkest timeline.
Feature — June 22, 2022
I hate this place. I really hate this place. I have three half-Korean adult children. Two of them currently call Chicago home. One builds beautiful violins and the other is an amazing cartoon artist. My youngest still resides here in Grand Rapids. MI. He is a fantastic chef and he …
Regular Columns / Running on Nothing: How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Feature — September 5, 2022
I went out on tour with my buds in Norcos y Horchata as their bass player a few weeks back. I haven't been on an actual tour since before the pandemic, so this was going to be an adventure. The routing brought us from Michigan to New Jersey and back. …
Regular Columns / Running on Nothing: The Emperor Is A Broke Bastard
Feature — November 21, 2022
Back in the early '90s, I found my people. My punk rock family. My own personal group of weirdos and misfits. Some of us wore the uniform of leather jacket, shocked out hair, big black boots. Some of us had long hair, flannel shirts and sneakers. Some wore Fred Perry …
Regular Columns / Running on Nothing: Walk Idiot Walk
Feature — December 19, 2022
A couple of years ago I drew up a gigposter for a show I was putting on and used one of my friends as the model for it. It was a cartoony number with her on a couch drinking and playing video games. When I finished it she had mentioned …
Regular Columns / Running on Nothing: Tony is a Punk
Feature — April 21, 2023
I know this punk guy named Tony. You probably know the same guy. I met him many years ago when he was in his teens and had a rockabilly band called Al and the Black Cats. Then his band The Chernobyl Babies infected my little punk bar with pogo punk …
Regular Columns / Running on Nothing: I Can Be Such A Turd Sometimes
Feature — June 16, 2023
This past weekend we celebrated Memorial Day. In my world this is the first long weekend of the summer and it is spent in our yard grilling and drinking to excess. On that front, there's nothing really to report. We spent the weekend with our usual shenanigans that happen every …
Regular Columns / Running on Nothing: How (not) to start a band
Feature — September 25, 2023
It's Like Three Card Monte, But With Bands... There's actually no wrong answers here. I was just thinking about the process I went through with most of the bands I started. A few people in my scene know about this, but so many others don't and I thought it …
Regular Columns / Running on Nothing: Being a Dork is Cool
Feature — February 12, 2024
It's ok to like ska. I'm not kidding. It is perfectly acceptable to like ska. With the current explosion of young ska bands coming up and their growing popularity, I've heard some peers kind of dragging on ska. That's ridiculous. The original ska music was VERY rebellious music. It …
Interviews: The Bollweevils
Feature — March 11, 2024
I first met Daryl from The Bollweevils during a post-Riot Fest brunch thing years ago. I was there for the weekend with the Mustard Plug guys and a few months before, Red Scare had signed The Lippies. I showed up to Cobra Lounge on a Sunday morning to hang with …
