AltWeekly Awards
2011 Music Criticism Above 50,000
1st Place: Refuge in the Blues, Many Voices, Many Rooms and Life and Death by Chris Herrington , The Memphis Flyer2011 Music Criticism Below 50,000
1st Place: Insane Clown Posse Drops the Hatchet, Ferocious Tornado Rider and Thomas Pridgen's Rock-Soul Revival by Rachel Swan , East Bay Express2010 Music Criticism Above 50,000
1st Place: Go See Phish at Least Once, On Michael Jackson's This Is It, and On 50 Cent's Self-Help Book by Rob Harvilla , The Village Voice
2nd Place: A Long Strange Trip, Just Tweet It, and DJ Beto
by Jennifer Maerz
,
SF Weekly
3rd Place: The Day the Music Died, Katy Perry Unpeeled, and Bon Iver at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
by Randall Roberts
,
L.A. Weekly
2010 Music Criticism Below 50,000
1st Place: Backtrack, Past Lives and The Revivalist by Leah Sottile , Pacific Northwest Inlander
2nd Place: Bush Music: A Mix, Dream's Life, and Two Testaments
by Chris Herrington
,
The Memphis Flyer
3rd Place: El Moz, Die Reggaeton Die, and The Incredible Shrinking Grammy
by Enrique Lopetegui
,
San Antonio Current
2009 Music Criticism Above 50,000
1st Place: "Down in Front" by Rob Harvilla , The Village Voice
2nd Place: Newport, Nights Out and Fourth Quarter CDs
by Jon Garelick
,
Boston Phoenix
3rd Place: Swagger Like Us
by Pete Freedman
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Dallas Observer
2009 Music Criticism Below 50,000
1st Place: Abe Kenney, Noise and Pap by Luke Baumgarten , Pacific Northwest Inlander
2nd Place: Pity for Black Kids, Lil Wayne and Billy Corgan's Bombast
by Robbie Mackey
,
INDY Week
3rd Place: Euro With a Thousand Faces, Wither Without You and Beach Blanket Brilliance
by Justin Strout
,
Orlando Weekly
2008 Music Criticism Above 55,000
1st Place: Hot Hot Heat, The Disorientation of Lauryn Hill and The Fey Highwayman by Rob Harvilla , The Village Voice
2nd Place: Freaks Come Out at Night
by Jonathan Cunningham
,
New Times Broward-Palm Beach
3rd Place: Hug Life, People, People, Why are They Fighting? and Half the Man He Used to Be
by Sarah Godfrey
,
Washington City Paper
Honorable Mention: Forgiving the Past Through Elliott Smith, It's So Easy Being Green and Jack Kerouac's Writing is Still Influential for Rock Icons 50 Years After On the Road
by Jennifer Maerz
,
SF Weekly
2008 Music Criticism Below 55,000
1st Place: The Unbearable Lightness of Paul (PDF), Police Report (PDF) and Haley's Comet (PDF) by Gilbert Garcia , San Antonio Current
2nd Place: It's a Rap, Bad-Vibe Bands and Johnny Cash's Block Party
by Chris Herrington
,
The Memphis Flyer
