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Series: Year End 2015
Our annual round-up of the best music of the year 2015.
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Scene Point Blank's Favorites: Year End (2015)
Posted Jan. 12, 2016, 2:50 p.m.It's that fabled time of year – SPB's favorite albums of the last twelve months. In this list, assembled by combining all of out staff writers' individual lists (no editorialising!), we show you the best music of 2015 including old favorites, new artists and a couple of other twists. Read on to find out what albums you shouldn't have missed from the year just gone. Overall list 1 Prurient Frozen Niagara Falls Profound Lore There is not much one can say about Prurient, the project of Dominick Fernow. Throughout the years Prurient have produced an extensive discography that sees them creating a cartography of the dark ambient and noise genres with their own experimental mindset. The project has ...
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Music 2015: A Year In Review
Posted Jan. 12, 2016, 2:47 p.m.As if we haven't told you enough about 2015—artist roundups, label roundups, our favorite records—we've got a couple more lists for ...
Music Pass The Mic: Artists on 2015
Posted Dec. 27, 2015, 4:44 p.m.It's the end of another year, and time for us to ask some of our favorite artists and bands for their reflections on the ...
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2015: A Year In Review
Posted Jan. 12, 2016, 2:47 p.m.As if we haven't told you enough about 2015—artist roundups, label roundups, our favorite records—we've got a couple more lists for you. Find out the best new music on Bandcamp last year, amazing punk/hardcore releases you may have missed, reissues and compilations that made 2015 great, and perhaps most importantly... the best flannel shirts of 2015. Read on for more. The Best Bandcamp Discoveries of 2015 Since its establishment in 2007, Bandcamp has significantly changed the way independent musicians get the fruits of their labor out to the world. Certainly, many artists signed to labels ...
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Music Pass The Mic: Record Labels on 2015
Posted Dec. 21, 2015, 3:17 a.m.Every year since 2006, Scene Point Blank has made it our mission to find out what our community thought of ...
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