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Nominees Are In! Vote For Your Faves Now!

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


Discussion

13 comments for “ Nominees Are In! Vote For Your Faves Now! ”

  1. 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 am
  2. False Flag IS the best new band!

    Posted by carmen | December 11, 2009 , 9:52 am
  3. OOOH 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 pm
  4. It’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 pm
  5. Shotgun Opera has all my votes for everyyyythinggggg!!!!

    Posted by Michelle Vercruysse | December 12, 2009 , 3:04 pm
  6. I 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 pm
  7. The 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 am
  8. First 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 pm
  9. Aralic wins!

    Posted by Casper | December 19, 2009 , 2:44 pm
  10. Would 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 pm
  11. not to be biased or anything but i’m pretty sure aralic got this.

    Posted by dale | January 7, 2010 , 11:42 pm
  12. i’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 pm
  13. L.I.E IS AWESOME.

    Posted by christy | January 20, 2010 , 4:39 pm

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