From October 1st through Thanksgiving the public cast their votes to nominate their faves for February’s Choice Awards and now as we roll through December and head towards 2010 the nominees are now available for all to choose from as faves for the 2010 Lokal Loudness Choice Awards to be presented at Sky City February 20th.
1)Dixie Dreg Award (Band)
48Volt
Chairleg
Electric Voodoo
L.i.E.
Shotgun Opera
2)Brandon Layton Award (All Ages)
Aralic
Beara
Chairleg
L.i.E.
Shotgun Opera
3)Science Friction Award (New Band)
False Flag
Great Day in the Morning
My Instant Lunch
NoStar
Twice Removed
4)Dorian Tauss Award (CD)
L.i.E. – Eviction
My Instant Lunch – Tales of Woah
NoStar – NoStar
Shotgun Opera – Vanity
The Cubists – Mechanical Advantage
5)1,000 Miles Award (Song)
Chairleg – Mecha
Jemani – Glitterbone
L.i.E. – Ego Machine
Suns Collide – Cubing the Glean
The Cubists – Fire in the Backyard
6)Paul M. Colohan Award (Male)
Jo Bone (L.i.E./Shotgun Opera)
Dave Firmin (The Endalls)
Matt Lawhorne (Chairleg)
Dave Mercer (Shotgun Opera/Suns Collide)
Carey Murdock (NoStar)
7)Kat Turner Award (Female)
Eryn Eubanks (Family Fold)
Allison Foster (solo)
Deb Hemingway (Electric Voodoo)
Tara Scheyer (The Mudpuppy Band)
Tracey Steele (Joe Graves & the Dirty Left Hand)
8)Robbie Ducey Award (Solo Artist)
Jacob Beltz
John Kolbeck
John Krueger
Will McCranie
Billy S
9)Steve Cheeks Award (Singer)
Dave Mercer (Shotgun Opera)
Tony Miaco (L.i.E.)
Josh Pierce (Bleeding Counterfeit)
Chris Robinson (Twice Removed)
Larry Sprowls (Chairleg)
10)Reed Scott Award (Misc.)
Chris Anderson (Keys – False Flag)
Jacob Beltz (Banjo – Solo)
DJ Fugi (DJ – Twice Removed)
Dale Lowe (Keys – L.i.E.)
Henry Wynn (Multiple – Various)
11)Matthew Keenan Award (Guitarist)
Michael Baideme (Bleeding Counterfeit)
John Berret (Reed Brown Beret)
Matt Lawhorne (Chairleg)
Blaine Prescott (Artemia)
Dean Massaro (Twice Removed)
12)Chris Hardy Award (Bass)
Jo Bone (L.i.E./Shotgun Opera)
Ryan Griffis (Chairleg)
Chris Libby (Bleeding Counterfeit)
Dave Mercer (Suns Collide)
Danny Rankin (My Instant Lunch)
13)Chris Watkins Award (Drums)
Brian Allen (48Volt)
Mike Brower (Chairleg)
Brian Caplette (Shotgun Opera)
Michael Dinkins (L.i.E.)
Eric Rinker (Suns Collide)
14)James Brown Award (Hip Hop/Soul Artist)
Flaco
Jemani
Rebel Lion
TBUC
15)Die Agnostic Award (Hard Rock Artist?)
Chairleg
L.i.E.
Shotgun Opera
Suns Collide
Twice Removed
16)Brenda Lee Award (Americana/Country Artist?)
48Volt
Patrick Blanchard
Dew Hickies
Eryn Eubanks & the Family Fold
Jeremy Graham Band
17)David Bradbery Award (Rock Artist)
48Volt
Bleeding Counterfeit
Great Day in the Morning
My Instant Lunch
NoStar
How is Aralic only in the All Ages section and not in at least in the Die Agnostic Award too? They’re the heaviest band out of any mentioned on this page and the closest thing to good metal. Just saying.
Posted by Melissa Johnston | December 11, 2009, 8:10 amFalse Flag IS the best new band!
Posted by carmen | December 11, 2009, 9:52 amOOOH OOH I can answer that first question! Because they didn’t get enough nomination votes between October 1st and Thangsgiving.
Posted by Stoney | December 11, 2009, 5:23 pmIt’s funny cause it’s true. I’m actually a little surprised at the fact that Die Agnostic had an award named after them.
Posted by Sanj | December 11, 2009, 5:42 pmShotgun Opera has all my votes for everyyyythinggggg!!!!
Posted by Michelle Vercruysse | December 12, 2009, 3:04 pmI can also say that the Die Agnostic award is not a metal only award. Chairleg is also a metal band, but the category is Hard Rock Artist which includes metal and grindcore.
Over all, it is a tough call on many of these. All the nominees are very deserving of their respective awards. Proof yet again of the musical talent we have here in the CSRA. Horns up!
Posted by Big Troy | December 12, 2009, 9:20 pmThe all-ages nominees are simply a reflection that the kids are NOT nominating bands, but nothing can be done about this except better promotion of this event to the kids in the future. We, the bands, can not help who nominates us for what…many of whom don’t really know or care about more than one or two bands in town anyway, so there’s the answer to that. Maybe the dieAgnostic award could be, in the future, changed to ‘hard rock/metal’ award. And indeed, I fully acknowledge that there are plenty of all-ages bands that are far more popular than L.i.E. and Shotgun Opera at 7G (…by the way, I’m the drummer for L.i.E. and Artemia…)
And while I’m commenting…
I’m actually a little surprised at the continuance at dieAgnostic hate, even after all these years .. I guess they have an award named after them because Stoney recognizes that they were the most popular heavy band in Augusta history, showing in 2009 that they can draw a bigger crowd than any other currently active and popular lokal band.
Unbelievable that anyone would come to this site of all places and insult a lokal band.
Posted by Dork | December 13, 2009, 2:30 amFirst off how is Bobby Henderson from Twice Removed not nominated for Drums and second, where are the active links to vote?? Twice Removed all the way
Posted by Jonathan | December 15, 2009, 2:00 pmAralic wins!
Posted by Casper | December 19, 2009, 2:44 pmWould like to see a category for bluegrass / acoustic music. Trying to put this type music into any of the categories, just isn’t fair to any of the great local groups.
Posted by RJ | December 30, 2009, 5:49 pmnot to be biased or anything but i’m pretty sure aralic got this.
Posted by dale | January 7, 2010, 11:42 pmi’m with jonathan, on the “EXCUSE ME THERE’S NO ACTIVE LINKS?” So, where do you vote? Aralic, False Flag, Twice Removed, just shows so many good things happening in our local scene-we have a lot of talented people here, & i want to vote for the newer bands, so – how can i?
Posted by Charles Rocker | January 12, 2010, 4:28 pmL.I.E IS AWESOME.
Posted by christy | January 20, 2010, 4:39 pm