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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 …
Interviews: Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
Feature — June 6, 2011
Dallas Taylor has always been a prominent figure in contemporary music. Once the vocalist for Underoath, he later started Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, a tribute to his southern heritage. They've recently finished recording their fourth album and have nearly completed a North American tour with Protest the …/dc5bce211f23e4e7711fb7a728b04414.jpg)
Interviews: Balance and Composure
Feature — October 24, 2011
Balance and Composure have kept a low profile throughout their career with a modest touring schedule but made a major statement this year with the release of their first full length album, Separation. I recently met up with Jonathan Simmons, vocalist and guitarist in the band, …
Music: Pass The Mic: Record Labels and Artists on 2011
Feature — January 2, 2012
Another year, and another Pass The Mic feature. As has become SPB tradition, we turn the tables on the music industry and ask labels, bands and other key figures about their experience of the past year, including favourite albums, bands, predictions and more. We have over 50 participants in …
Music / The Set List: Swans: our favorite songs and records
Feature — August 26, 2012
SPB's top 5 favourite Swans records (in alphabetical order) 1 Filth The first Swans full length appeared in 1983 and signified a huge shift in the post-punk landscape. The evocative artwork that speaks in deep and dirty atmospheres and Gira's ability to draw you in whilst …
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, …
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 / 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, …
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 …
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: 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: 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: 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 …
One Question Interviews: Lagwagon
Feature — June 19, 2014
Joey Cape (Lagwagon, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes) SPB: What is the most overdone cover song? Cape: "Brown Eyed Girl"
One Question Interviews: Midnight Masses
Feature — September 8, 2014
Autry Fulbright II (Midnight Masses, …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead) SPB: How did you settle on the name Midnight Masses for the project? Fulbright II: My dad was raised Catholic and my favorite Black Sabbath song is “War Pigs” ("generals gathered in their …
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 …
