2011 Index of Winners
Best Nightlife Event BOA Award Winner
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Best OTP Music Venue BOA Award Winner
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Best Outdoor Music Venue for Concerts BOA Award Winner
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Best Place to Hear Local Music BOA Award Winner
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Best Place to Hear Music For Free BOA Award Winner
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Best Place to Play Pool BOA Award Winner
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Best Rock Club BOA Award Winner
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Best Sex Club BOA Award Winner
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Best Sports Bar BOA Award Winner
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Best Strip Club BOA Award Winner
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Best Stripper Other Than Blondie BOA Award Winner
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Best Trivia Night BOA Award Winner
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Best Urban Music Club BOA Award Winner
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Best Weekly Club Night BOA Award Winner
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Best Soul album BOA Award Winner
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Best Modern Classical Composer BOA Award Winner
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You have to know the rules before you can effectively break them, and Qurious seems to operate on a higher level of consciousness than its electro peers. Between Mike Netland’s starry-eyed production and Catherine Quesenberry’s spellbinding voice, the duo delves deep into the realm of pure atmospherics with a sense of sophistication that eludes the rest. Each song on the group’s full-length 2010 debut, Planet Plant, slowly drifts through the ether with a celestial ambiance as massive and mysterious as the universe itself. It’s a sound that gives new meaning to the word ambient. qurious.bandcamp.com.
Listen: Qurious “Another Language”
Best Dance Company BOA Award Winner
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Best Local Punk Act BOA Award Winner
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Punk rock is best when it’s channeled through one man confronting the things that keep him awake at night. Greg King’s nightmares manifest in the murky punk energy, lacerating riffs and warped field recordings of G.G. King. With the arrival of his debut LP, Esoteric Lore (Rob’s House/Scavenger of Death), the former Carbonas frontman transcends the buzzsaw blitzkrieg of his previous band. By marrying crisp, driving melodies and demonic incantations with a damaged sound that could shake itself to pieces at any minute, he’s created the most compelling avant-garage punk statement this town has ever known. myspace.com/ggkingband.
Listen: G.G. King “Want”
Best Dive Bar BOA Award Winner
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Best Club/Party DJ BOA Award Winner
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Best Performance Venue BOA Award Winner
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Best Local Experimental Music Act BOA Award Winner
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Over the last three years, Lyonnais has methodically explored the grey area between post-punk and proto-industrial drone. Through it all, the group has fostered a mesmerizing art-pop that morphs ever so slightly each time the band steps on stage. Pulling off such versatility is no easy chore. But the impending release of the enigmatic group’s debut album, Want For Wish For Nowhere (Hoss Records), proves that keeping experimental music interesting is a task at which this mysterious foursome excels. myspace.com/teamlyonnais.
Listen: Lyonnais “The Fatalist”
Best Local Rock Act BOA Award Winner
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Reveling in the mesmerizing aesthetics of drone pop and Krautrock, Red Sea’s songs creep along at a hypnotic pace. But a slow and jangling indie rock sensibility propels these four fresh-faced 18- to 21-year-olds from Suwanee over deep, dark valleys of reverb and resonance. Less than 24 hours after self-releasing the Weird Problem EP via Bandcamp, Red Sea was deemed a buzzworthy band by the local blogosphere, and its subsequent live shows only highlighted the band’s potential to achieve local clout at an age when most acts are still kicking around in the garage. redsea.bandcamp.com.
Listen: Red Sea “Cruel Future”
Best Karaoke BOA Award Winner
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Best Local Blues Act BOA Award Winner
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An Atlanta guitar slinger with a swooping pompadour, Rod Hamdallah has swiftly risen through the ranks of Atlanta’s die-hard blues scene by taking cues from such hometown icons as the late Sean Costello and Donnie McCormick. With a blend of delta blues, electric roots and garage rock girth, Hamdallah has tricked out a sultry sound and presence that’s recharging the blues. He’s what the old heads who lurk in the shadows at the back of the bar refer to as the real deal, and they ain’t lyin’. reverbnation.com/rodhamdallah.
Listen: Rod Hamdallah “Think About It”
Best Local Producer BOA Award Winner
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The Supernatural Man by ETHEREAL
With his zoned-out beatscapes, young gun producer/MC Ethereal aims to usher in a decidedly chill age of Atlanta rap. The 22 tracks on his recent full-length debut, Abstractica (Slumerican), house plenty of built-in spitting room for himself and a heap of featured MCs, but they’re best consumed as subtle bytes of sonic bliss. reverbnation.com/ethereal00.
Best New Addition to the Cityscape BOA Award Winner
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Best Local Overall Music Act BOA Award Winner
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We’re proud that Perry, Ga.-bred Ernest Greene has chosen our fair city as his new home base, ‘cause he’s such a fine Southern gentleman, but also because Washed Out is at the vanguard of a new musical age. Greene’s dreamy, disengaged music nods to our age of ephemera while subtly reproving it, an ever-shifting island in a miasmic sea of sensation. As for staying power, Greene’s newly minted record deal with industry stronghold Sub Pop only affirms what those who have witnessed Washed Out’s recent shows already know: This bedroom-pop blog darling has become quite the electro-fied entertainer. myspace.com/thebabeinthewoods.
Listen: Washed Out “Eyes Be Closed”
Best Local Producer BOA Award Winner
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Best Local Promoter BOA Award Winner
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Best Local MC BOA Award Winner
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Best Local Metal Act BOA Award Winner
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The devil’s weed is always a little sweeter when cosmic metal monsters Wizard Smoke spark up the joint. The menacing five-piece ensemble drives its up-tempo rock ‘n’ roll dirges with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, while sidestepping the typical woozy-eyed dreariness that so often defines the stoner aesthetic. Wizard Smoke’s songs are glacial in size and epic in stature, but there’s a sense of humor hiding behind every riff throughout the band’s latest LP, The Speed of Smoke. Take another hit and let the perma-grin begin. wizardsmoke.net.
Listen: Wizard Smoke “Weakling”
Best Local Rock Act BOA Award Winner
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Best Local Pop Act BOA Award Winner
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With the April release of Little Tybee’s proper debut, Humorous to Bees (Paper Garden Records), the group proved it’s one of the most refined bands in town. It’s quite an accomplishment considering the current crop of homegrown pop acts crafting equally glassy and complex sounds. But what sets this sophisticated foursome apart is a subtle seafaring aura that colors the music and sets its strings and swoon adrift. littletybee.muxtape.com.
Listen: Little Tybee “Passion Seekers”
Best New Thing About Atlanta BOA Award Winner
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Best Place to Hear Local Music BOA Award Winner
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Best Local Hip-Hop Act BOA Award Winner
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Best Music Festival BOA Award Winner
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Best Local Classical Music BOA Award Winner
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Best Performance Artist BOA Award Winner
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An outsider performance artist with insider appeal, Cousin Dan rocks ridiculous stage-wear and makes simplistic, addictive music videos for his synth-based electro jams. Underneath the leopard-print spandex and diamond-studded codpiece lurks a master craftsman with irresistible pop hooks for appendages. cousindan.tumblr.com.
Listen: Cousin Dan “Already Home”
Best Weekly Club Night BOA Award Winner
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Best Local Metal Act BOA Award Winner
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Best Bike Lane BOA Award Winner
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Best Bizarro Local News Story BOA Award Winner
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Best Local Sports Team BOA Award Winner
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Best Community Garden BOA Award Winner
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Best Convention BOA Award Winner
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Best elementary school BOA Award Winner
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Best New Thing About Atlanta BOA Award Winner
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Best High School BOA Award Winner
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