By Jennifer Usovicz
Sound of Our Town 2 courtesy of Cara DiFabio of Vanyaland
We are super excited to announce that we are nominated for Best Music Blog at the Boston Music Awards! You can vote for the awards NOW here!
Congrats to staff photographer (and homie) Ben Stas for getting nominated for Best Live Music Photographer for the 2015 Boston Music Awards! Ben Stas, aside from being one of the nicest people in the world, is an excellent photographer who currently shoots for The Boston Globe, Tastemakers, Invisible Oranges, and (us) Allston Pudding. He also has a dope photo blog called Noise Floor. You go Ben!
Ben Stas Photography
Another friend nominated is Boston Hassle for Best Music Blog. The Boston Hassle is a non-profit organization that throws hundreds of shows a year, prints a new issue every month called The Boston Compass, and runs a locally-focused music blog.
This year’s awards show will be two nights, both held at The Sinclair in Harvard Square December 9th and 10th. The Boston Music Awards explained in a press release the order of business:
“the first night will be half award ceremony, half rock and roll show and will be free to nominees. The second night will be a ticketed event headlined by our Hall of Fame inductee and an opening performance by our New Artist of the Year Award winner”.
Here are all the nominees, good luck and please vote!
BOSTON MUSIC AWARDS 2015 NOMINEES ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Bad Rabbits
Michael Christmas
Ruby Rose Fox
Speedy Ortiz
The Ballroom Thieves
ALBUM/EP OF THE YEAR
Cousin Stizz – “Suffolk County”
Krill – “A Distant Fist Unclenching”
Session Americana – “Pack Up The Circus”
Sidewalk Driver – “Everybody Loves My Face”
Speedy Ortiz – “Foil Deer”
SONG OF THE YEAR
Dirty Bangs – “I’m In Love With The Summertime”
Ruby Rose Fox – “Golden Boy”
Sidewalk Driver – “Everybody Loves My Face”
Speedy Ortiz – “Raising The Skate”
The Ballroom Thieves – “Archers”
NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Oh Malô
Palehound
Party Bois
Vundabar
Worshipper
LIVE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Dirty Bangs
NEMES
Party Bois
Tigerman
WOAH
Zip-Tie Handcuffs
ROCK/INDIE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Dirty Bangs
Hallelujah The Hills
Speedy Ortiz
Palehound
Pile
HIP-HOP ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Cousin Stizz
Dutch ReBelle
Michael Christmas
STL GLD
Termanology
POP ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Meghan Trainor
PVRIS
Ruby Rose Fox
Shea Rose
Will Dailey
R&B ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Bad Rabbits
Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Jesse Dee
Sebastian Mikael
Shea Rose
AMERICANA ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Grey Season
Honeysuckle
Session Americana
The Ballroom Thieves
These Wild Plains
BLUES ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Barrence Whitfield & The Savages
Gracie Curran & The High Falutin’
Peter Parcek
Toni Lynn Washington
Willie J. Laws Band
DJ/PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
DJ Knife
Frank White
KON
LeahV
Statik Selektah
ELECTRONIC ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Bearstronaut
Let’s Wait
Radclyffe Hall
St. Nothing
Skinny Bones
FOLK ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Dan Blakeslee
Grey Season
Honeysuckle
Ian Fitzgerald
The Ballroom Thieves
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Debo Band
Dub Apocalypse
MAMADOU Band
Roberto Morbioli
Shun Ng
JAZZ ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Alison Keslow
Esperanza Spalding
Grace Kelly
La Vie en Rose
Lake Street Dive
METAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Converge
Lunglust
Protean Collective
Rozamov
Worshipper
PUNK/HARDCORE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Raw Blow
The Hotelier
The Warning Shots
Trophy Lungs
Zip-Tie Handcuffs
SINGER-SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
Abbie Barrett
Danielle Miraglia
Lori McKenna
Ruby Rose Fox
Will Dailey
FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR
Abbie Barrett
Ellen Kempner
Lyndsey Gunnulfsen
Marissa Nadler
Ruby Rose Fox
MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR
Barrence Whitfield
Evan Kenney
Louie Bello
Peter Wolf
Will Daley
STUDIO PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
Benny Grotto
Brian Charles
Dave Minehan
Ed Valauskas
Paul Q. Kolderie
VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Eldridge Rodriguez – “Giving Myself Over To Boston”
Fran-P Ft REKS, SPNDA & Moe Pope – “Hypertension”
Hallelujah the Hills – “We Are What We Say We Are”
Petty Morals – “Just A Game”
Tigerman Woah – “Koopa”
BEST DANCE NIGHT
Don’t Ask Don’t tell at Great Scott
Heroes with DJ Chris Ewen
PVRPLE at Good Life
Soulelujah at Zuzu
XMortis at The Middle East
BEST LIVE MUSIC VENUE
Brighton Music Hall
Great Scott
Lizard Lounge
The Middle East
The Sinclair
BEST LIVE ONGOING RESIDENCY
Dadrock with Lyle Brewer & Co at Atwood’s
Dennis Brennan at Lizard Lounge
Louie Bello at Abbey Lane
The Blue Ribbons at TOAD
Tim Gearan Band at Atwood’s
BEST MUSIC BLOG
Allston Pudding
Boston Hassle
Daykamp Music
Guestlisted Jed Gottlieb
Vanyaland
BEST LOCAL PROMOTER
Bowery Presents Boston
Crossroads Presents
Good & Nice
Illegally Blind
Randi Ellen Millman
BEST LIVE MUSIC PHOTOGRAPHER
Ben Stas
Johnny Anguish
Matthew Shelter
Michael Sparks Keegan
Michael Spencer
