Features / Series: Year End 2023

Our roundup of the best music of the year 2023

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Scene Point Blank's Favorites: Year End (2023)

Music / Year End 2023 • January 9, 2024

Another year is over. You yawn wearily as January beckons, trying to remember what your job is and clinging onto those hastily-made new year's resolutions. Maybe one of them was to listen to more new music this year?  Better slow down there, buddy. Before you start diving into 2024, you need to catch up on what you missed last year. Thankfully, Scene Point Blank's staff have got you covered. We've painstakingly—and democratically—assembled the definitive list of the best music released in 2023. No editorialising, no nudging our personal choices further up the list (or demoting that one band you hate). Each staffer writes their own list (see page three for these), we smush them all together (a technical term), and what you see below is the result.  Check out our top 30 albums released in 2023 below – and if you're a Spotify user, there's a playlist here that's just shy of 24 hours long. Go on, give yourself a day to take in all the great music from last year. Then you'll be well set to keep up with the great music still to come in this year. Now read on! Read more

2023: A Year In Review

Music / Year End 2023 • January 9, 2024

As we've done every year since 2004 (except, for some reason, in 2017), SPB's hard-working staffers have beavered away around the clock to deliver you a set of lists to … Read more

Pass The Mic: Artists and labels on 2023

Music / Year End 2023 • December 11, 2023

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 … Read more

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