And The Nominees Are…

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Best Act In Town:
The Boys Named Sue
The Happy Bullets
Radiant
Record Hop
Sorta

Musician of the Year:
John Dufilho
Collin Herring
Chris Holt
Eric “Fishboy” Michener
Salim Nourallah

Best Album:
Beautiful Noise, Salim Nourallah
King James Version, Spitfire Tumbleweeds
Little D, Fishboy
The Vice and Virtue Ministry, The Happy Bullets
Water Sphere, Pilotdrift

Best Song:
“Crime Scene,” Black Tie Dynasty
“Falling Asleep in the Snow,” Auto Escape
“Still Afraid,” Bosque Brown
“The Dark of Garage,” South San Gabriel
“The Vice and Virtue Ministry,” The Happy Bullets
“The World is Full of People Who Want to Hurt You,” Salim Nourallah

Best New Act:
Auto Escape
Bosque Brown
The Drams
Rose County Fair
The Valentines

Best Blues:
Hash Brown and the Browntones
Pops Carter
Smokin’ Joe Kubek
Silvertones
Jim Suhler

Best Country/Roots:
The Boys Named Sue
Eleven Hundred Springs
Jayson Bales and the Revival
Max Stalling
Spitfire Tumbleweeds

Best Cover Band:
The Boys Named Sue
Hard Night’s Day
The Mumbles
Petty Theft
Queen For A Day

Best DJ:
DeeJay CeePee
Kid Icarus
DJ Merritt
DJ Redeye
Wild in the Streets

Experimental/Electronic:
The Angelus
the pAper chAse
Professional Juice
Tree Wave
The Undoing of David Wright

Folk/Acoustic:
Bosque Brown
Doug Burr
Fishing For Comets
Audrey Lapraik
Mission to the Sea

Funk/R&B:
Montrose
One Up
Rhythm
Rubba Rode
Woodbelly

Jazz:
Earl Harvin Trio
Freddie Jones Band
Monks of Saturnalia
Shanghai 5
Shibboleth

Latin/Tejano:
Zayra Alvarez
Mad Mexicans
Norte De Havana
Rob G. and the Latin Pimps

Best Rap/Hip-Hop:
Steve Austin
Headkrack
Money Waters
Pikahsso
Tahiti

Best Metal:
3/4 Ton
A Dozen Furies
Fair to Midland
Jacknife
Mugzu

Best Hard-Rock:
Burden Brothers
The Feds
Golden Falcons
Hogpig
Record Hop

Best Indie-Rock:
The Deathray Davies
Fishboy
The Happy Bullets
Midlake
The Valentines

Best Female Singer:
Camille Cortinas, Fishing For Comets
Ashlee Cromeens, Record Hop
Kristy Kruger
Mara Lee Miller, Bosque Brown
Liz Williams

Best Male Singer:
Aaron Closson, The Hourly Radio
John Dufilho, The Deathray Davies/I Love Math
Trey Johnson, Sorta
Salim Nourallah
Levi Smith, Radiant

Best Instrumentalist:
Scott Danbom (keyboard/violin), Centro-matic/South San Gabriel
Daniel Hopkins (drums), Radiant
Chris Holt (guitar)
Todd Pertll (pedal steel), Doug Burr/Kristy Kruger
Ward Richmond (bass), Slick 57/Boys Named Sue

Best Producer:
John Congleton
Salim Nourallah
Matt Pence
Stuart Sikes
Dave Willingham

Best Radio Show That Plays Local Music:
90.1 At Night
The Adventure Club, 102.1 The Edge
Frequency Down, 88.1 KNTU
The Good Show, 88.7 KTCU
The Local Show, 102.1 The Edge

Best Music Web Site/Blog:
DConstruction (dconstruction.org)
Gorilla Vs. Bear (gorillavsbear.net)
Texas Gigs (texasgigs.com)
Indie Interviews (indieinterviews.net)
We Shot J.R. (weshotjr.com)

Best Record Label:
Kirtland
Idol
Spune
Summer Break
Undeniable

Best Live Music Venue:
The Cavern
Granada Theatre
Gypsy Tea Room
Hailey’s
Sons of Hermann Hall

Best Dance Club:
Hailey’s
Lizard Lounge
minc
Purgatory
Seven