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There are a lot of misconceptions about life in the music biz. While late nights and travel are a big part of it, day jobs always influence the process and the product. In Don’t Quit Your Day Job, Scene Point Blank looks at how careers influence the scene. In this edition, we chat with Kate Hiltz, she who is namedropped … Read more

There are a lot of misconceptions about the life of a musician. Most musicians have day jobs – and not just to pay the bills. Jobs provide new challenges, personal fulfillment and, yes, some rent or gas money. How an artist spends their time by day will influence the creative process at night. In Don’t Quit Your Day Job, Scene … Read more

It's been a long year, right? You may well find yourself examining the last twelve months and trying to remember what music got released so you can include it on your "2023 best of" and still look cool. But—disaster! You can't remember anything! Thankfully, SPB has got you. We've reached out to our friends in the music community: bands, labels and … Read more

With a lineup of 300-ish bands playing throughout town over a 3-day period, there's a lot to discuss about The Fest, an annual celebration of punk rock that takes place in Gainesville, FL in late October. At FEST 21, the headliners included GWAR, Lucero, Dillinger Four, Thursday, Descendants, Tim Barry, Screaming Females...the list goes on. Yet, as I made the … Read more

Spanish Love Songs, Oso Oso, Sydney Sprague, Worry Club Varsity Theater Minneapolis, MN April 17, 2024   Spanish Love Songs, photo by Loren Green Wednesday’s show at Varsity Theater began with a band dressed like it was the 1990s, followed by a band dressed like the 2000s, another dressed like … Read more

There's a time for words and there's a time for music. We write about music a lot at Scene Point Blank but this time it's just a playlist share. Now, the catch: All of the bands on this playlist have been covered at SPB and, if not, the record was … Read more

Every day is an information overload. The web has a lot of great things, but sometimes it feels like too much too. Politics, news, rumors...it's a lot to take in. But too much music? C'mon. That isn't a real thing.  SPB has a lot of different pieces. Our focus is … Read more

What can I say, I like to make playlists. The latest Search/Play/Repeat keeps my theme of music that Scene Point Blank has covered -- some recently, some long ago, mostly my own work because I've listened to that material the most. So below enjoy a half-hour of curated music below. … Read more

Each month at SPB we feature a new record on the site. While we like to talk and write about music, the common is goal is simply sharing music with others. And this month we’re excited to present the self-titled debut album from Evansville, IN based Amblare. The band was … Read more

Bad Breeding continues with the bangers, announcing their upcoming fifth album, Contempt, coming out in June on One Little Independent Records. The new album's packaging will zines discussion journalist Aidan Frere-Smith and the homelessness crisis. Here's the first single, "Liberty," below. The album comes out on June 14, following 2022's Human Capital. Read … Read more

156/Silence has shared their first new music in two years, a new horror-inspired single called "Unreasonable Doubt," released via SharpTone Records. The metal meets hardcore band from Pittsburgh, PA has three albums thus far, most recently Narrative in 2022. "We started with the idea of a riff that skips and could … Read more

Folk-punk band AJJ, who released Disposable Everything last year (Hopeless Records), shared the single "Best of All Possible Worlds" today, a collaboration with rapper Kool Keith and singer-songwriter Kimya Dawson (The Moldy Peaches).   "I am still so completely astonished that we got to make this thing with these two … Read more