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Best Restaurant When Someone Else is Paying BOA Award Winner
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Best Place to Hear Local Music 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 Bands in ATL BOA Award Winner
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Best Live Band/Act BOA Award Winner
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If you pick up a classic console, you can infinitely replay the eight-bit jams performed live by CONTRABAND, the alter ego of Athens’ post-hardcore math-rock quartet Cinemechanica. Additionally, you can train to be a featured player in one of the group’s shows: Contraband performs the soundtrack to the classic NES game Contra while lucky participants attempt to beat the game live. There’s even an official “dance”: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start. Even though you can’t use the secret 30-lives code during a performance, turn it into an interpretive dance and you’ll be invincible on the dancefloor. It’s hipper than the Lean Back or even the Cha-Cha Slide. Not since Mario laid his first pipe has Nintendo Classic been this energizing.
www.myspace.com/nintendorock2.
Best Dive Bar BOA Award Winner
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Best Rock Club BOA Award Winner
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Best Rock Club BOA Award Winner
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Best Local Experimental Music Act BOA Award Winner
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Some will rightfully argue over who pioneered the snap music sound, but DEM FRANCHIZE BOYZ — Buddie, Jizzal Man, Parlae and Pimpin — are the group making a lasting impression. Their pair of hits, “I Think They Like Me” and “Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It,” exemplifies snap’s kinetic yet quiet energy, even as its debut album, On Top of Our Game, incorporates other hardcore rap styles to create a sonically balanced listening experience. Of course, superstar producer Jermaine Dupri’s patronage certainly didn’t hurt the group in becoming more than just a Bankhead sensation.
www.demfranchizeboyz.com.
Best Sports Bar BOA Award Winner
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Best Sports Bar BOA Award Winner
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Best Neighborhood Bar BOA Award Winner
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Best Neighborhood 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 Urban Music Club BOA Award Winner
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Best Urban Music Club BOA Award Winner
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Best Local Songwriter BOA Award Winner
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Many rockers are heavily inked with colorful tattoos, but look closely at the Swear’s intense but beguilingly beautiful ELIZABETH ELKINS. You’ll notice self-inflicted graffiti, scrawled in punky black ink on her arm or chest. Yep, right there on her otherwise creamy skin, you’ll find an intriguing array of cryptic or self-referential words or phrases. An hour or so before each show, the roaring rocker takes Sharpie in hand and scribbles an impromptu message: “I draw from various song lyrics of my own and from my favorite writers, books, poetry or anything tongue-in-cheek, vaguely self-depreciating or whatever fits my state of mind that night.”
www.theswear.com.
Best Weekly Club Night BOA Award Winner
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Best Weekly Club Night BOA Award Winner
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Best Local R&B/Soul Act BOA Award Winner
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It took damn-near forever, but local soul vocalist ALGEBRA finally broke onto the national scene. Born and raised in Atlanta, Algebra has been kicking around locally for years. She signed to Dallas Austin’s Rowdy Records while still a student at North Atlanta High School, then spent a year on Motown Records — all without releasing an album. But check VH1 Soul or BET-J and you’ll see her video, “U Do It for Me,” in heavy rotation — and that’s a rare feat for A-town soul folks. Expect to hear much more of her Southern rap-meets-soul stylings after her debut album drops sometime this fall on Kedar Entertainment.
www.myspace.com/algebrablessett.
BOA Award Winner
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“Anthony David, Atlanta-based singer/songwriter, releases his new album, The Red Clay Chronicles, this month on local indie label Brash Music:”
“The people of Atlanta make the music scene what it is, particularly the women! Whenever you come out and see some new artist that is ripping up the stage, male or female, and no one has heard of them yet, you will always see two or three ladies on the side that do know them, and have encouraged them to get out there and do it. Ladies are so smart, yes they are!”
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