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Records: Ted Leo announces new album project funded by Kickstarter
News — February 22, 2017
SPB favorite Ted Leo has announced via Twitter a project to crowdfund his as-yet-untitled next album. Leo, whose last album as Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The Brutalist Bricks, was released in 2010, saw his recent record labels Lookout! and Touch and Go both close down in recent …
Podcast: Scene Point Blank Podcast: Episode 4
News — January 18, 2017
New year, new episode of our podcast! This month our legendary contributor BJ Rochinich has a bunch of new music (including Clevinger, Ruins and Spirits) and some of our recent features make an appearance. You can check out Episode 4 below, and subscribe in all the usual places (including iTunes here). Check out …
Records: David Bowie posthumously releases 4 track EP
News — January 14, 2017
On what would have been David Bowie's 70th birthday, January 8th 2017, a new song "No Plan" was released online with an accompanying video, a year after the singer died. The track is taken from a new EP which contains three other songs under the title No Plan EP. The four …
Bands: New At The Drive-In song released
News — December 9, 2016
Reformed post-hardcore superstars At The Drive-In have released a new song (and accompanying lyric video) called "Governed By Contagions". The band reunited back in 2012 and announced at the start of this year that new music was on the way. The new track sounds similar to singer Cedric …Podcast: Scene Point Blank Podcast: Episode 3
News — December 8, 2016
Happy December! We've got an early Christmas present for you: the latest episode of the SPB podcast. You can check out Episode 3 below, and subscribe in all the usual places (including iTunes here). The podcast is created and presented by our beloved contributor BJ Rochinich. Check out the …Podcast: Scene Point Blank Podcast: Episode 2
News — November 2, 2016
It's a new month and that means a new episode of the Scene Point Blank podcast! You can listen to our difficult second episode below, and subscribe in all the usual places (including iTunes here). The podcast is created and presented by our beloved contributor BJ Rochinich. Check out …
Podcast: Scene Point Blank Podcast: Episode 1
News — October 13, 2016
After over thirteen years publishing on the web (and one book in print), Scene Point Blank has taken to the airwaves and released a podcast! It's hosted by our friend and contributor BJ Rochinich and available right now. You can listen online here, and subscribe to it on iTunes …
Rumors: Davey Havok & Jade Puget of AFI launch hardcore band side project
News — March 17, 2014
Rumors are increasing that newly-announced hardcore band XTRMST is a side project of AFI frontman and guitarist respectively, Davey Havok and Jade Puget. Details are sketchy but Alternative Press claim that a tape was given away at Vacation Vinyl in LA containing four tracks of "straight edge hardcore". The vocals definitely …
Site News: Scene Point Blank launches book
News — February 3, 2014
We're proud to announce this week the launch of Scene Point Blank's first-ever book, proudly titled All Downhill From Here. It's a collection of our best writing over the ten years (!) that SPB has been publishing for. Made up of interviews, album reviews, best-of lists and guest columns, …
Obituaries: Lou Reed of the Velvet Underground dies aged 71
News — October 27, 2013
Rolling Stone is reporting that veteran rock artist Lou Reed has died. The cause is as yet unknown but Reed has reportedly been ill since undergoing a liver transplant in May. The influential songwriter was famous for his work with the Velvet Underground as well as his solo work. He …
Records: SPB exclusive stream: Big Dick - S/T
News — January 28, 2013
The brilliantly-named Big Dick of Dirt Cult Records have given Scene Point Blank an exclusive stream of their new self-titled debut. The post-punk duo (just drum and bass) play a heavy, melodic but bass-heavy mix of progressive punk rock and hail from Ottawa, Canada. The album is streaming on the …Site News: Scene Point Blank relaunches: new design and features
News — January 27, 2013
Welcome to the new-look Scene Point Blank! You're seeing what's amounted to almost a year of planning, designing, re-coding and rethinking. We hope you like it - we're really pleased with it. You'll see more as the weeks go on of the new features and parts of the site, but …
Music News: Pastepunk webzine comes to an end
News — November 28, 2012
Long-running webzine Pastepunk has announced that it's to cease publishing after 14 years online. The site, run by founder Jordan Baker, has long been a stalwart of the webzine community and was loved by users who left comments about their memories of growing up with the site as it shaped …Rumors: Trent Reznor hints at Nine Inch Nails shows in 2013
News — November 13, 2012
Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has hinted in a vague reddit "Ask Me Anything" interview at a possible Nine Inch Nails tour in 2013. A user named "toastercookie" asked Reznor about the band's lighting effects at live shows, adding "I would kill to see NIN again, what a great …
General News: Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! interviewed in the Guardian
News — July 22, 2012
Laura Jane Grace, vocalist with Against Me!, has been interviewed in British newspaper the Guardian, talking about her recent gender change (Laura was previously known as Tom Gabel). The interview touches on Grace's family's reaction ("[her father and her] haven't spoken since") and hopes for the future: And yet …
Bands: Tom Gabel of Against Me! announces her transgender status
News — May 8, 2012
The singer of Against Me!, Tom Gabel, has announced that she plans to live as a woman after dealing with gender dysphoria for years, according to Rolling Stone. She plans to begin transition using hormones and electrolysis treatments, and will change her name to Laura Jane Grace in the …
Records: Green Day to release "three album trilogy"
News — April 11, 2012
California's most popular punk rock sons, Green Day, have announced via Twitter that they intend to release three new records in September, November and January 2013. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong tweeted this: Ok. Here's the deal. We're making a 3 album trilogy. Not 1. Not 2. But 3 albums. Called …
Shows: Reading / Leeds (UK) Festival Lineup Announced
News — March 12, 2012
The long-running Reading / Leeds Festival lineup for 2012 has been announced today. At The Drive-In tweeted before the official announcement that they would be one of the headline acts, fuelling speculation the festival tickets would sell out in hours, as it did in 2010. The lineup includes headliners The …
