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2024: A Year In Review

January 13, 2025

2024: A Year In Review
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The Best of Scene Point Blank in 2024

An incomplete summary of our year at Scene Point Blank.

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

(And we wrote a belated piece about our 20th anniversary too!)

Interviews

Artists and bands we spoke to in 2024

Guest Contributions

Writing by our friends in the music world

Interview Series, Festival Coverage and Columns

Living the music in 2024

And, just for memory's sake, here's our 2024 midyear and our 2023 Year End coverage. Thanks for reading!

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— words by the SPB team • January 13, 2025

2024: A Year In Review
Photo by Jonas Leupe on Unsplash

Pages in this feature

  1. Opening page
  2. The Best Art Of 2024
  3. The Best Demos Of 2024
  4. The Best of Scene Point Blank in 2024
  5. The Best Singles And EPs of 2024
  6. The Best Splits of 2024
  7. Top 5 Artists I'd Love to Cover in 2025
  8. Top 5 Favorite Photos I Shot in 2024
  9. Top 5 Rock 'N' Roll Books That I Read in 2024
  10. Top 5 Songs My Girlfriend Has Recommended To Me This Year
  11. Top 5 Songs My Kids Have Introduced Me To In 2024

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