AltWeekly Awards
2008 Music Criticism Below 55,000
2nd Place: It's a Rap, Bad-Vibe Bands and Johnny Cash's Block Party by Chris Herrington , The Memphis Flyer
3rd Place: Weird Sisters (PDF), Melancholy Man (PDF) and The Feminine Mystique (PDF)
by Rene Spencer Saller
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Illinois Times
2007 Music Criticism Above 55,000
1st Place: "Racket": "Just Say No Mas," "Screw October," "The Hype of March" by John Nova Lomax , Houston Press
2nd Place: "Evil Incarnate," "For Pete's Sake," "Bliss and Oblivion"
by James Parker
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Boston Phoenix
3rd Place: "Down in Front": "Crazy For You, But Not That Crazy," "Get Busy Living," "Spankmaster and Servant"
by Rob Harvilla
,
The Village Voice
2007 Music Criticism Below 55,000
1st Place: "Singing Cowboys & Englishmen," "Mystery Black Boy," "The Black Atlantic" by Kandia Crazy Horse , Creative Loafing (Charlotte)
2nd Place: "Highway 281 Revisited," "High School Confidential," "Fed-Ex Delivery"
by Gilbert Garcia
,
San Antonio Current
3rd Place: "World of Their Own," "Twenty Years Ago Today," "Justify Your Love?"
by Chris Herrington
,
The Memphis Flyer
Honorable Mention: "Rediscovering Kate Bush," "Case of the Missing Heart," The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of"
by Rene Spencer Saller
,
Illinois Times
2006 Music Criticism Above 50,000
1st Place: "Keeping Up With the Joneses," "Incorrect Change," and "Principle Playa" (PDF) by Sarah Godfrey , Washington City Paper
2nd Place: "The New Mythology," "The Real Y'Alternative," and "No Sympathy for the Devils"
by Kandia Crazy Horse
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Creative Loafing (Charlotte)
3rd Place: "The Titmaster Tommy Lee," "Race Against Rockism" and "Powerpop for Now People"
by Rob Harvilla
,
East Bay Express
Honorable Mention: "Out of the Woods," "Country Sucks?" and "Informed Regret"
by Chris Herrington
,
The Memphis Flyer
2006 Music Criticism Below 50,000
1st Place: J Spot by Jonanna Widner , Santa Fe Reporter
2nd Place: "Spring Forward," "Worth the Wait," and "All the Right Moves"
by John Brodeur
,
Metroland
3rd Place: Boys, Express Yourselves
by Stephen George
,
LEO Weekly
Honorable Mention: "It's Saturday Night," "Best of the Wurst," and "Classical for a Dummy"
by Frank De Blase
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City Newspaper
2005 Music Criticism Above 50,000
1st Place: I'm All Ears (PDF) by Melissa Maerz , City Pages (Twin Cities)
2nd Place: Riddle Me This
by Jonathan Valania
,
Philadelphia Weekly
3rd Place: Joiners in Believing
by Alec Hanley Bernis
,
L.A. Weekly
