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There are a lot of misconceptions about the life of a musician. Most musicians have day jobs – and not just to pay the bills. Jobs provide new challenges, personal fulfillment and, yes, some rent or gas money. How an artist spends their time by day will influence the creative process at night. In Don’t Quit Your Day Job, Scene … Read more

Did you know it’s been 10 years since Anathema Editions put out its first release? To make the moment, we reached out to founder Terence Hannum to share some label history. In keeping with our “History 101” concept, SPB asked for anecdotes about 4 of the label’s releases and then Hannum picked out 4 more. As he tells it: Ten … Read more

There are a lot of misconceptions about the life of a musician. Most musicians have day jobs – and not just to pay the bills. Jobs provide new challenges, personal fulfillment and, yes, some rent or gas money. How an artist spends their time by day will influence the creative process at night. In Don’t Quit Your Day Job, Scene … Read more

There are a lot of misconceptions about the life of a musician. Most musicians have day jobs – and not just to pay the bills. Jobs provide new challenges, personal fulfillment and, yes, some rent or gas money. How an artist spends their time by day will influence the creative process at night. In Don’t Quit Your Day Job, Scene … Read more

The less I say about 2025 the better. Well, except to say that Scene Point Blank's 2025 Year End coverage is in development so, actually, I'll be talking about the year a lot. Search/Play/Repeat is a sporadic playlist feature that's just about sharing music though, instead of hitting some topical … Read more

It's been a while since I put another playlist up. I actually had this 99% done a couple of months ago, but everything went haywire and the list went on hold. This edition of Search/Play/Repeat is a quick play, running about 30 minutes in total. Enjoy! Read more

Visual Learner, BlackDots, City Mouse, Couch Potato Massacre Cloudland Theater Minneapolis, MN May 7, 2025 I’m embarrassed that I haven’t covered any shows at Cloudland for SPB previously. It’s a relatively new addition to the Minneapolis scene and a welcome addition that feels as much like a community space as … Read more

Sometimes I get all introspective and ask myself why I do this. Not very often, but the answer is always because I like music. It's that simple. I like to discover new stuff and I like to share it. Every year, the staff at Scene Point Blank sink a ton … Read more

Trust Records has announced the Nov. 6 release date for Are You Ready: The First Studio Recording from Bad Brains, recorded at Inner Ear Studios in March 1979. After floating in the bootleg circles for years, the recording has been remixed by Ian MacKaye and, in cooperation with Bad Brains, … Read more

Melodic hardcore band Nagusame is here to challenge us. The band, named for the Japanese word for comfort and solace (慰め) shared a new single recently with the French title of "L'appel du Vide" ("The Call of the Void"). It is one-sixth of the band's newest EP, this one titled … Read more

Hakan, a garage-punk band from Bergamo, Italy, returns soon with a new album this winter. It's the fifth album from the trio and will release via Mom's Basement (USA), Shield Recordings (The Netherlands), Take The City Records (Spain) and Rockstar Records (Germany). More info is still to come, but the … Read more

thisquietarmy has a new record, out now, called Erosion, released on Canadian label Isohyet. In the label's words, the album was "Created during [Eric] Quach’s 2026 residency at Art sonore à l’Abbaye in Saint-Benoît-Labre, Quebec, this 46-minute album is a sonic slab of monolithic drone guitars," inspired by the changing … Read more