Features / Interviews

SPB: Give me your name, status in the band, and where you're from. Vinnie: I'm Vinnie . . . I'm from Long Island, New York and I sing for The Movielife. SPB: How'd your band get started? Vinnie: Just a bunch of dudes that, like, knew each other through the … Read more

When Irish five-piece The Murder Capital recently released their debut album When I Have Fears, it was rapturously received by critics and music fans alike, with the band’s post-punk sound viscerally tapping into grief and disillusionment across the album’s ten tracks. The record was inspired by the suicide of a … Read more

Get your best dancing shoes on – we're going out dancing with The Mutants! The Mutants were and are an important influential band in the San Francisco Bay area and beyond, wedged between the original punk scene and the testosterone-fueled hardcore scene that was soon to follow them. For a … Read more

Way back in the far gone year of 2005, Jacob Berns and Chris Kiehne got together to record a small set of songs that, beyond their folksy, love story exterior, betrayed a dark and horrific substance. Accompanied by the lovely vocals of Sonya Cotton, those songs became the National Lights's … Read more

nerv·ous easily agitated or alarmed; tending to be anxious; highly strung. eat·er a person or animal that consumes food in a specified way or of a specified kind. A pallid white hand emerges from the Cistvaen breaking through the dank earth clutching a Shure Unidyne I Model 556 microphone. The … Read more

  While the summer for many adolescents provides an excuse to go outside and perhaps even get "wet and wild", on this nice Thursday night I had a date that required my single ass to stay indoors and online. This rendezvous would be with a math chaos grindcore band from New … Read more

The Ocean is a monstrous band--and not just by their formidable reputation. The band has seen scores of members come and go over their life span, but one figure has remained a constant presence over their thirteen-year history: frontman Robin Staps. We at SPB had the distinct honour of asking … Read more

SPB's Graham sat down with Katie Sketch of The Organ, who were conceived in 2001. Beginning her musical training at three years old with classical violin training, it's safe to say that Katie's life was always going to involve music. SPB talked to her to find out a little more … Read more

"All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets." - Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver Emerging from the underbelly of Austin, Texas, The Oxy's plunder, pillage, preach, pontificate, … Read more

The Psyke Project has been releasing since the early ‘00s. Samara, Daikini, Apnea, and Dead Storm gave way to the next logical step of their malicious plan and that is how Guillotine came to be, showing that this band could still surprise by conjuring some of their darkest moments yet. … Read more

D.C.’s The Rememberables dropped a new album — Breathe — last month, but it isn’t actually very new. It had been recorded long before the pandemic and was just waiting in line at a pressing plant. This is their second full-length and it was recorded at God City Studios in … Read more

Every few years, a band releases an album that will change the face of music. Typically this is because of its music. But it is the manner in which Reclamation Process, the latest album from The Rise, is being released that is garnering them so much attention. Cory Kilduff discusses … Read more

A dripping handful of Brylcreem and a well-used black comb situated in the pack pocket of the rolled up Levis, the clicking rhythm of bubble gum and fast cars, fast girls and twangy guitars while engines from a Ford Thunderbird rev in the sunset. Enter The Rousers blasting out energy … Read more

  Intricately layered, the Rum Diary's music creates a melodic topography of strident, staccato peaks and mellifluous, melodic valleys that can bring about any emotional reaction. It wouldn't have been at all surprising if while playing live, these guys did something like facing the floor the whole time, too involved in … Read more

As The Skids sang, The Saints are coming!.......Storming North America! The Saints ’73-’78 land on North American soil in early November and will feature original Saints members, guitarist Ed Kuepper and drummer Ivor Hay, and filling out this lineup is singer Mark Arm (Mudhoney), guitarist Mick Harvey (The Birthday Party … Read more

Last year saw Italians The Secret suddenly blow up beyond all expectations and the release of Agnus Dei gave them the push into public consciousness that they so rightly deserved. Heavy touring both last year—with the mighty Converge—and a European trek this Spring with the excellent deafheaven will bring that … Read more

Many would consider The Senders one of the hardest-working live bands, hands down. Full of piss and vinegar, blood, sweat and tears and loud, blaring, unfiltered, salt-of-the-earth pureness. Coupled with greasy DAs, cheap drug store black combs in back pockets and streamer-filled, party-fueled rock ‘n’ roll. If you were not … Read more

Not much of today's music is beautifully honest, because honesty is often boring. The simple, and perhaps banal truth is the members of The Snake, The Cross, The Crown are just a few dudes making music. Like anyone else they have jobs, like hanging out with friends, and sometimes get … Read more

Living in Minneapolis, I’ve seen a number of Soviettes shows on the local calendars over the past few years. With the band announcing a hiatus back in 2006, and a couple of reunions to celebrate the LP IV rarities compilation, I had long wondered what the band’s official status was. … Read more

As we enter the 21st century we become more and more like what our science fiction forefathers wrote us up to be. This is evident by attending underground rock shows and seeing young adults with haircuts similar to that of Spock from the futuristic television show Star Trek. The bands … Read more