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2023: A Year In Review

January 9, 2024

2023: A Year In Review
2023: A Year In Review

The Best of Scene Point Blank in 2023

It's been a busy year at Scene Point Blank.

You saw our Top 30 Records already, shared our annual Pass The Mic year-in-music review. But we also interviewed bands, wrote about our experiences as fans and music makers, and shared full record streams and more.

Interviews

Interviews

Artists and bands we spoke to in 2023

Listed in alphabetical order, here are our band/artist 2023 interviews:

Guest contributions

Guest contributions

Writing by our friends in the music world

We featured these guest contributions in 2023:

Interview series, festival coverage and columns

Interview series, festival coverage and columns

Our staff were busy in 2023

Here's the highlights of 2023 from our interview series, festival coverage, and staff columns:

Festivals we've covered in 2023:

Featured streams at Scene Point Blank in 2023:

Featured streams at Scene Point Blank in 2023:

New music we shared last year

Here are the albums we streamed in 2023:

And, just for memory's sake, here's our 2022 Year End coverage. Thanks for reading!

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2023: A Year In Review
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Pages in this feature

  1. Opening page
  2. Best Europunk EPs and splits
  3. Canadian Releases of 2023 To Phone Your Mom About
  4. Delaney’s Top 5 Concerts of 2023
  5. Musicians We Lost in 2023
  6. Records I Discovered Too Late To Include in my Year End List
  7. The Best Covers of 2023
  8. The Best of Scene Point Blank in 2023
  9. Top 5 Bands That Got Me Through 2023

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