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Austin Music Awards

Best Performing Bands › 2011-2012

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Best Avant-Garde/Experimental
Mother Falcon

photo by Sandy Carson

Octopus Project
Sorne
The Invincible Czars
Zorch
No Mas Bodas
Opposite Day
Black Red Black
John Pointer
The Calm Blue Sea

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Best Blues
Gary Clark Jr.

photo by Sandy Carson

Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears
Carolyn Wonderland
Jimmie Vaughan
Suite 709
Eric Tessmer
Brownout
The Moellers
T Bird & the Breaks
Akina Adderley & the Vintage Playboys

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Best Country
Asleep at the Wheel

photo by Sandy Carson

Los Texas Wranglers
Dale Watson
Whiskey Shivers
Reckless Kelly
The Derailers
Sarah Jarosz
Wheeler Brothers
The Lost Pines
Ruby Jane

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Best Cover Band
The Eggmen

photo by Sandy Carson

Guilty Pleasures
The Frank Gomez Band
More Cowbell
Mysterious Ways
Encore
Skyrocket
Think Lizzie
Karaoke Apocalypse
Radiostar

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Best Electronica/Club DJ
Toddy B

photo by Todd V. Wolfson

DJ Excede
Ghostland Observatory
Andrew Parsons
Rattletree Marimba
Govinda
Kidd Evol
Scorpio Rising
Mexican From Mars
Francis Prève

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Best Folk
Eliza Gilkyson

photo by Sandy Carson

Wheeler Brothers
Sarah Jarosz
Matt the Electrician
BettySoo
Sara Hickman
Hello Wheels
Dana Falconberry
Ghosts Along the Brazos
Cowboy & Indian

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Best Hip-Hop/DJ
Trampia

photo by Sandy Carson

DJ Ralphie G
Zeale
DJ Phife
Dubb Sicks
Phranchyze
DJ Villa
DJ Mel
DJ Chicken George
MC Overlord

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Best Indie
Quiet Company

photo by Will van Overbeek

Speak
Wheeler Brothers
White Denim
Mother Falcon
The Bright Light Social Hour
The Long Tangles
Suzanna Choffel
Little Lo
Marmalakes

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Best Instrumental
Balmorhea

photo by Todd V. Wolfson

Ulrich Ellison
Descendents of Erdrick
Ugly Elephant
Explosions in the Sky
The Calm Blue Sea
Eagle Claw
Black Red Black
Waterloo Trio
Brownout

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Best Jazz
Black Red Black

photo by Todd V. Wolfson

White Ghost Shivers
Jeff Lofton
Ephraim Owens
Kat Edmondson
Tameca Jones
Elias Haslanger
Tito Carrillo
The Jitterbug Vipers
Eric Johnson

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Best Latin Rock
Grupo Fantasma

photo by Sandy Carson

Los Lonely Boys
Los Texas Wranglers
Jonas Alvarez Band
El Tule
Del Castillo
Brownout
Vallejo
Vitera
Maneja Beto

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Best Latin Traditional
Los Texas Wranglers

photo by Sandy Carson

Jonas Alvarez Band
Grupo Fantasma
El Tule
Austin Samba School
Ruben Ramos & the Mexican Revolution
Mariachi Relámpago
Ocote Sol Sounds
Son y No Son
Cienfuegos