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Austin Music Awards

Best Performing Bands › 2007-2008

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Best Bluegrass
Bob Schneider's Texas Bluegrass Massacre

photo by John Carrico

South Austin Jug Band
Sarah Jarosz
Onion Creek Crawdaddies
The Gourds
Warren Hood & the Hoodlums
The Belleville Outfit
Green Mountain Grass
Austin Lounge Lizards
White Ghost Shivers

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Best Blues
Gary Clark Jr.

photo by Todd V. Wolfson

Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
Ruthie Foster
Pinetop Perkins
Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmie Vaughan
Guy Forsyth
Miss Lavelle White
Seth Walker
Carolyn Wonderland
Grady

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Best Country
Rusty Weir

photo by John Carrico

Dale Watson
Asleep at the Wheel
Kevin Fowler
The Derailers
The Mother Truckers
Heybale!
Willie Nelson
Alvin Crow
The Texas Sapphires

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Best Cover Band
The Eggmen

photo by John Carrico

I Need More Cowbell
Skyrocket!
Mysterious Ways
Lost in Austin
Big Balls
Hells Bells
Forever Changes
Spazmatics
CR 290

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Best DJ
Toddy B

photo by Todd V. Wolfson

DJ Mel
Scott Kinnebrew
Boba Fett
DJ Manny
DJ Exceed
DJ Chicken George
DJ Dallas
Car Stereo (Wars)
Bigface

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Best Experimental
Ghostland Observatory

Octopus Project
Death Is Not a Joyride
Shuttle Debris
Opposite Day
John Pointer
Chant
Will Evans Project
Bexar Bexar
Calm Blue Sea

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Best Folk
The Brobdingnagian Bards

photo by John Carrico

Sara Hickman
Eliza Gilkyson
The Hudsons
Betty Soo
Suzanna Choffel
Amy Cook
Brothers & Sisters
Sarah Jarosz
Peter & the Wolf

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Best Hip Hop
BoomBoxATX

photo by Todd V. Wolfson

Bavu Blakes
MC Overlord
Dirty Wormz
Zeale32
Afrofreque
Dubb Sicks
Phranchyze
Tee Double
Braylon Wilcott

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Best Indie
Okkervil River

photo by Mary Sledd

Spoon
Ghostland Observatory
Octopus Project
Voxtrot
Black Angels
Tammany Hall Machine
White Denim
Roky Erickson & the Explosives
Explosions in the Sky

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Best Industrial/Goth
Tungsten Coil

photo by Todd V. Wolfson

Chant
Lucid Dementia
Death Is Not a Joyride.
Pail
Ghostland Observatory
Scorpio Rising
Lust Murder Box
Subnatural
Exit

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Best Instrumental
Explosions in the Sky

Octopus Project
Austin Symphony
McLemore Ave.
3 Balls of Fire
Doc Grauzer
Golden Arm Trio
Mike Flanigin & His B-3 Trio
Brownout
Mundi

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Best Jazz
Blaze

photo by John Carrico

Eric Johnson
Ephraim Owens
White Ghost Shivers
Stanley Smith
Sarah Sharp
David Chenu
Paris 49
Monster Big Band
Mingo Fish Trap

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Best Latin Contemporary
Brownout

photo by Todd V. Wolfson

Grupo Fantasma
Vallejo
Del Castillo
The Brew
Los Lonely Boys
Meneja Beto
Boca Abajo
Los Gallos
Latin at Heart

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Best Latin Traditional
Los Texas Wranglers

photo by John Carrico

Grupo Fantasma
Del Castillo
Cerronato
Cienfuegos
Los Lonely Boys
Cadaques
Meneja Beto
Son y No Son
The Brew

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Best Metal
Broken Teeth

photo by Todd V. Wolfson

Powderburn
Coarse of Ruin
The Sword
Pail
Blackaholicus
Lucid Dementia
Grady
Lions of Tsavo
Meyvn

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Best None of the Above
White Ghost Shivers

photo by Todd V. Wolfson

Brobdingnagian Bards
Shuttle Debris
Mingo Fishtrap
John Pointer
Will Taylor & Strings Attached
Chant
I Need More Cowbell
Death Is Not a Joyride
Dino Lee & the White Trash Revue

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Best Novelty Band
Jolly Garogers

photo by Todd V. Wolfson

Supersonic Uke
White Ghost Shivers
I Need More Cowbell
Death Is Not a Joyride
Ghostland Observatory
The Dubliners’ Tabbycats
John Pointer
Asylum Street Spankers
Mistress Stephanie & Her Melodic Cat

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Best Punk
Krum Bums

photo by Todd V. Wolfson

The Midgetmen
The Applicators
Riverboat Gamblers
The Skunks
Ghostland Observatory
Opposite Day
Flametrick Subs
Adrian & the Sickness
Punkaroos

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Best Rock
Spoon

Okkervil River
Ghostland Observatory
Bob Schneider
Band of Heathens
Ian McLagan & the Bump Band
Grady
Future Clouds and Radar
White Denim
Tammany Hall Machine