The 2016 Boston Music Awards Announce Nominees

Voting is now live.

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Rising rappers Michael Christmas and Cousin Stizz, indie-rock sirens Marissa Nadler and Palehound, roots-rockers the Ballroom Thieves and electro-pop band and Improper music issue cover stars Pvris (pictured) vie for Artist of the Year honors among announced nominees for the 2016 Boston Music Awards.

Votes can be cast now at bostonmusicawards.com and winners will be revealed at the annual awards ceremony, this year set for Dec. 8 at House of Blues, where there’ll be performances by 10 artists (to be announced Oct. 10). New categories include Session Musician of the Year, Best Live Intimate Music Venue, Best Music Photo of the Year (to be announced in October) and Live Production Engineer of the Year. Here are all the 2016 BMA nominees:

ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Cousin Stizz
Marissa Nadler
Michael Christmas
Palehound
Pvris
The Ballroom Thieves

ALBUM/EP OF THE YEAR
Bearstronaut, “Telecoast”
Cousin Stizz, “Monda”
Julie Rhodes, “Bound to Meet the Devil”
Reks, “The Greatest X”
The Hotelier, “Goodness”
Worshipper, “Shadow Hymns”

SONG OF THE YEAR
Air Traffic Controller, “On the Wire”
Contact, “Never Stop”
Cousin Stizz, “Where I Came From”
Marissa Nadler, “Janie in Love”
Pvris, “You And I”
Speedy Ortiz, “Death Note”

NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Animal Flag
Julie Rhodes
Lady Pills
Salem Wolves
Token
Weakened Friends

LIVE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Cousin Stizz
The Ballroom Thieves
The Devil’s Twins
Tigerman Woah
Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys
Worshipper

VIDEO OF THE YEAR
Air Traffic Controller, “The House”
Kyle Bent, “Supplier”
Palehound, “Molly”
PVRIS, “You and I”
Ruby Rose Fox, “Dance of Frankenstein”
Slaine, “Pusher”

FEMALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR
Abbie Barrett
Casey Sullivan (Air Traffic Controller)
Julie Rhodes
Lyndsey Gunnulfsen (Pvris)
Ruby Rose Fox
Sadie Dupuis (Speedy Ortiz)

MALE VOCALIST OF THE YEAR
Chris Cote
Dietrich Strause
Evan Kenney
Louie Bello
Walter Sickert
Will Dailey

AMERICANA ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Honeysuckle
Julie Rhodes
Session Americana
The Ballroom Thieves
These Wild Plains
Tigerman Woah

BLUES ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Barrence Whitfield & the Savages
Matthew Stubbs & the Antiguas
Peter Parcek
Shor’ty Billups
The Silks
Willie J. Laws Band

DJ/PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
DJ Knife
DJ Slipwax
Frank White
Joe Bermudez
Kon
Leah V

ELECTRONIC ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Bearstronaut
CMB
Contact
Freezepop
Party Bois
Radclyffe Hall

FOLK ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Dan Blakeslee
Darlingside
Honeysuckle
Tall Heights
The Ballroom Thieves
The Novel Ideas

HIP-HOP ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Cousin Stizz
Dutch ReBelle
Michael Christmas
Reks
Slaine
STL GLD

INTERNATIONAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Debo Band
Dub Apocalypse
Rebecca Zama
Roberto Morbioli
Shun Ng
Ubuntu Band

JAZZ ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Alison Keslow
Amanda Carr
Esperanza Spalding
Grace Kelly
La Vie en Rose
Yoko Miwa

METAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Converge
Gozu
I Am Become Death
Protean Collective
Revocation
Worshipper

POP ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Clinton Sparks
Contact
JoJo
Meghan Trainor
Pvris
Rachel Platten

PUNK/HARDCORE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Actor|Observer
Ascend/Descend
Choke Up
Rebuilder
Somos
The Hotelier

R&B ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Bad Rabbits
Barrence Whitfield & the Savages
Jesse Dee
Marcela Cruz
Nancia
Shea Rose

ROCK/INDIE ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Black Beach
Palehound
Pile
Speedy Ortiz
The Devil’s Twins
Vundabar

SINGER-SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
Abbie Barrett
Lori McKenna
Marissa Nadler
Nate Leavitt
Ruby Rose Fox
Will Dailey

STUDIO PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
Benny Grotto
Brian Charles
Dave Brophy
Ed Valauskas
Sean McLaughlin
The Arcitype (Janos Fulop)

LIVE PRODUCTION ENGINEER OF THE YEAR (NEW CATEGORY)
Benjamin Stoppelman
Brendon Downey
Chris Johnson
Dan Gonzales
David Hughes
Reid Calkin

BEST LIVE MUSIC PHOTOGRAPHER
Ben Stas
Coleman Rogers
Eddy Leiva
Johnny Anguish
Joshua Pickering
Rich Gastwirt

BEST PROMOTER
Aaron Gray, Grayskull Booking
Alyssa Spector, Lysten Boston
Jason Trefts, Illegally Blind
Lisa Finelli, Xperience Creative
Randi Millman, Atwood’s Tavern
Ryan Agate, RTT Presents

BEST MUSIC NIGHT
Corrosion at Brighton Music Hall
Emo Night at the Sinclair
Fresh Produce at Good Life
Heroes at Middle East
Soulelujah at ZuZu
The Workout KBX at Laugh Boston

BEST LIVE MUSIC VENUE
Brighton Music Hall
House of Blues
Paradise Rock Club
Royale
The Middle East Downstairs
The Sinclair

BEST LIVE INTIMATE MUSIC VENUE (NEW CATEGORY)
Club Passim
Great Scott
Lizard Lounge
O’Brien’s Pub
Once Ballroom
Toad

BEST LIVE ONGOING RESIDENCY
Baker Thomas Band at Toad
Dennis Brennan at the Lizard Lounge
OldJack’s Last Saturdays at the Lizard Lounge
The Blue Ribbons at Toad
The White Owls at Toad
Tim Gearan at Atwood’s

SESSION MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR (NEW CATEGORY)
Dave Brophy
Duke Levine
Jonathan Ulman
Lyle Brewer
Matthew Girard
Paul Ahlstrand

BEST MUSIC BLOG
Allston Pudding
Boston Hassle
Guestlisted with Jed Gottlieb
Killer Boom Box
Red Line Roots
Vanyaland


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