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Darling New Neighbors

Every Day is Saturday Night
Independent (2006)

Hailing from Austin, Texas, Darling New Neighbors play indie rock with tinges of country that strays into universal pop and traces of folk. Darlings of the southern underground, Every Day is Saturday Night is their debut full-length. Filled with indie rockers, folk-ballads, and eclectic pop tones, it is tied together through stylistic shifts and lyrics of love gone wrong, which … Read more

Up and at Them

Demo
Independent (2006)

Up and at Them are four kids playing hardcore music. No frills, no fashion, no hideous lyrics about suicide or emotions. Just straight-up hardcore; it recalls Sick of it All and Comeback Kid and is delivered with a distinct lack of irony that is strongly welcome in a music world where "irony" is so often used to excuse poor musicianship … Read more

Roddy Woomble

My Secret is My Silence
Pure (2006)

In 2005, following Warnings / Promises, Idlewild finally decided that they were a rock band all along and that the folk edges that had been working their way in since The Remote Part were just a side track to their rock band credentials. The result of this epiphany was that there was room for Idlewild to do both a rock … Read more

Circles

When the Big River Floods
Well Below (2006)

When the Big River Floods sounds like Circles recorded it in a basement while drunk. Rough and ragged, the influences that are melted together to form the seven song mini-album slur their way along through confused drum-rhythms, low mix horns and a hell of a lot of rock, country, folk, and jazz. But not in a way that's ever really … Read more

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Idlewild

Interviews

Just as Warnings / Promises finally sees its belated release on American shores, our man Neil sat down to talk with Idlewild's Roddy Woomble, about maturity, acoustic shows, Edwin Morgan and President Bush. Scene Point Blank: Hi Roddy. Thanks for taking the time to talk to Scene Point Blank, how are you? Roddy: I'm fine thanks. Scene Point Blank: Welcome … Read more

Send More Paramedics

Interviews

Back from the dead, aka a European tour with The Offspring, and with the release of their split album, "Tales Told By Dead Men" in tow, I finally stopped being a lazy bastard, got off my growing-larger-by-the-day ass and talked to Send More Paramedics' frontman, B'Hellmouth. A day later, this arrived back in my inbox... What? You didn't think I'd … Read more

Gary Zon (Dismantled)

Interviews

Scene Point Blank: Hey Gary. Thanks for taking the time to talk to Scene Point Blank. How the devil are you? Gary Zon: Comfortably numb. Scene Point Blank: You've just finished recording your new album, Standard Issue. How do you feel you've moved on, personally and musically between the new album and PostNuclear? Gary Zon: I've actually had Standard Issue … Read more

Phillip Roebuck

Interviews

While Sufjan Stevens was busy making the banjo cool for the indie elite, Phillip Roebuck was trotting the world with drums attached to his feet. Combining the maverick traditions of the one-man band with manic spasms of frenzied banjo strumming and a perfect southern drawl, he's built a modern sound from outmoded methods. Fingers dancing on a banjo like Michael … Read more