Clocking it at just under 27 minutes, Columbus, Ohio electronic music producer Jacoti Sommes’ 2020 release Travel Time is all around better than his excellent 2018 effort Ubermensch. I think the album’s title ...
Created using a combination of physical instruments and various synthesized elements, it wasn’t particularly surprising for me to learn that one of the major concepts behind Gainsville, Florida-based musician Euglossine’s Psaronius (a ...
Given that I’ve put together year-end lists of the strangest albums I heard for the past couple years, I was pointed to this release coming out of Sri Lanka. It’s ...
It'd be quite easy to write off (the fantastically named) Puppy and the Hand Jobs for making self-described “trash rock and roll.” Much as is the case with bands like The ...
Each and every week, Scene Point Blank receives hundreds (and hundreds) of submissions for possible coverage. Some of these are really cool (Beck’s collaboration with the NASA Jet Propulsion ...
The year's third month is always a crazy time to be in Austin, what with the South by Southwest Festival taking up March's middle third, but the overall ...
Cindy Marabito (The Dicks From Texas) SPB: Living in Austin and being a part of South by Southwest for the last several years, I'm often struck by the, what ...
A year after the standing President of the United States attended and lectured at the South by Southwest Festival, politics were again front and center for much of 2017's ...
Following up their work on a four-way split from this past year, San Diego group Slow Draw earlier this week dropped a two-song single, Pessimist, released as a collaboration between ...
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Formed in 2000 by Argentinian brothers Ariel and Diego Sima, Farmacia has worked over the years on a variety of recordings and collaborations. The band’s new release, a self-titled ...
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Posted Jan. 7, 2021, 12:18 p.m.
Premiering here, we’ve got a pair of tracks from a split release featuring Boston groups Greylock and BEDTIMEMAGIC. The press release states: “"The writing on the wall shouts: "You ...
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Posted Dec. 17, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
As 2020 thankfully draws to a close, let’s hop in the time machine, shall we? Back in the 1980s, as skateboarding really began to take off, Swedish skateboarder Tony ...
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Posted Dec. 25, 2015, 4:03 p.m. by Andy
In the month leading up to the holiday, it's often difficult to escape the near-continual assault of schmaltzy Christmas music. It seems virtually every artist of note in the last ...Posted Oct. 31, 2015, 11:11 a.m. by Andy
Though usually panned by the majority of film critics – the mainstream ones anyway- horror films seem to be a Hollywood mainstay that just won't go away. This is hardly ...Posted Oct. 31, 2015, 10:27 a.m. by Andy
Made in 1957, director Roger Corman's typically efficient low-budget sci-fi flick Not of This Earth came to be regarded as a minor genre classic in the years to come – and ...Posted Oct. 31, 2015, 10:09 a.m. by Andy
In the midst of the opening credits sequence for Italian director Dario Argento's 1975 Profondo Rosso (a.k.a. Deep Red), the viewer is treated to a truncated scene appearing to show ...Sometimes, I do stuff. I like animation, cinema, motor racing, offbeat video games, suicides, divorces, promises broken, children smashed, whatever.
Female singers who curse. Electronic that's not all about the drop. Copious amounts of noise. Good soundtracks from questionable movies, or maybe questionable music in general? Stuff that makes you go, "huh." Feels.
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