The First Annual Music Blog Awards

I was asked to be involved in the selection of nominees for The First Annual Music Blog Awards, which are being brought to you by eMusic.com. Please check out the information below if you'd like to vote.

The Music Blog Awards are the first music award event to combine the way today's audience listens to music (MP3s), discovers music (music blogs), and celebrates it (the MUBA). The nominees selected in each category were chosen by a diverse group of authors from some of the most popular music blogs. Though the nominees were selected by the music bloggers, the winners in each category will be chosen by the general public. That means you! Voting is now live at http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB2269CC7CSU5. Everyone who votes will be given the chance to sign up for eMusic. Also, they will be able to get exclusive playlists hand-selected by the music bloggers. Voting will end on June 15, 2007, so vote now!


Nominee List:

Album of the Year
Camera Obscura – Let's Get Out Of This Country
Hot Chip – The Warning
Joanna Newsom – YS
The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
The Knife – Silent Shout
TV On The Radio – Return To Cookie Mountain


Song Of The Year
Band Of Horses – The Funeral
Beirut – Postcards From Italy
Camera Obscura – Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken
Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
Midlake – Roscoe
Peter Bjorn And John – Young Folks


Best Artist
Beck
Joanna Newsom
The Decemberists
The Knife
TV On the Radio


Best Blog
1. An Aquarium Drunkard
2. I Guess I'm Floating
3. Large Hearted Boy
4. My Old Kentucky Blog
5. Stereogum


Best Live Band
1. Cansei de Ser Sexy (CSS)
2. Radiohead
3. Tapes 'n Tapes
4. The Decemberists
5. TV On The Radio


Best Rock Album
1. The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers
2. The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
3. Thom Yorke – The Eraser
4. TV On The Radio – Return To Cookie Mountain
5. Wolfmother – Wolfmother


Best Rock Song
1. Band Of Horses – The Funeral
2. Tapes 'n Tapes – Insistor
3. The Decemberists – O! Valencia
4. The Raconteurs – Steady As She Goes
5. TV On The Radio – Wolf Like Me


Best Debut Album
Beirut – Gulag Orkestar
Cold War Kids – Robbers & Cowards
Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere
Lily Allen – Alright, Still
Lupe Fiasco – Food & Liquor
We Are Scientists – With Love and Squalor


Best Indie Album
Cold War Kids – Robbers & Cowards
The Hold Steady – Boys And Girls In America
Sunset Rubdown – Shup Up I Am Dreaming
Tapes 'n Tapes – The Loon
The Thermals – The Body, The Blood, The Machine


Best Dance/Electronica Album
Cansei De Ser Sexy – Cansei de Ser Sexy
Girl Talk – Night Ripper
Goldfrapp – Supernature
Hot Chip – The Warning
The Knife – Silent Shout


Best Dance/Electronica Song
Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
Hot Chip – And I Was A Boy From School
LCD Soundsystem – 45:33
The Knife – We Share Our Mother's Health
The Rapture – Whoo! Alright, Yeah…Uh Huh


Best Rap Song
Nas – Hip-Hop Is Dead
Outkast – PJ And Rooster
T.I. – What You Know


Best Rap Album
Clipse – Hell Hath No Fury
Ghostface Killah – Fishscale
Lupe Fiasco – Food & Liquor
Nas – Hip-Hop Is Dead
Rhymefest – Blue Collar


Best Country/Alternative Country/Country Rock Album
Drive By Truckers – A Blessing And A Curse
Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins – Rabbit Fur Coat
Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
Old Crow Medicine Show – Big Iron World
The Be Good Tanyas – Hello Love


The nomination committee was comprised of authors from the following blogs:

#1 Hits From Another Planet
5 Acts
A Beef Sandwich
Advance Copy
All Things Go Blog
An Aquarium Drunkard
A Plague Of Angels
Bars And Guitars
Both Sides Of The Mouth
Communications Major, English Minor
Desperate Youth
Different Kitchen
Fingertips
From Blown Speakers
The Good, The Bad, The Unknown
Hate Something Beautiful
I Am Fuel, You Are Friends
I Guess I'm Floating
Jonk's Music Blog
Kwaya Na Kisser
The Late Greats
The Listening Post
The Music Slut
My Old Kentucky Blog
Noise For Toaster
Off The Record
Palms Out
Quick Before It Melts
Sand Is Overrated
Silence Is A Rhythm Too
Speed Of Dark
Test Pilot
Under The Rotunda
White Boy Dance Floor